Date: May 21, 2011
Time: 10 a.m.

Phil Hardberger Park will open on May 21 at 8 a.m. and activities will begin at 10 a.m. with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony to include remarks by a number of dignitaries. Following the ceremony, activities will continue until 7 p.m. Visitors are asked to park at Alon Shopping Center and cross into the new park at the crosswalk near the Jewish Community Campus. Bring a picnic lunch, sunscreen, a water bottle, and be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. It is a pretty half-mile walk from the parking lot to the ceremony staging area. Participants will be able to pick up one free tree at the Alon Shopping Center at the end of their visit, while supplies last.

We hope to see you at this grand opening event! For more information call The City of San Antonio Parks & Recreation Department at (210) 207-8484 or visit www.sanantonio.gov/parksandrec

SAVE THE DATE!

Date: May 14, 2011
Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Associated General Contractors Construction Leadership Forum is in the process of restoring the milk barn at the original homestead. They will host a BBQ lunch fundraising event on May 14, 2011 at the milk barn in Hardberger Park. The public is welcome.

Volunteers with the Associated General Contractors’ Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) began March 19 on a two-year-long community service project to restore the nineteenth century dairy barn at Phil Hardberger Park. The barn was built in 1896 as part of the Voelcker farmstead and will be the first of several heritage structures restored as part of the park’s master plan. Approximately 25 members of the CLF will spend the morning cleaning up the site in preparation for a “Barn Raising” fundraiser scheduled for May 14th to help pay for any materials that aren’t donated.

Date: May 7, 2011
Time: 9-11 a.m.

Join Park Police Officers in learning about how to do an annual maintenance inspection of your bicycle.  Learn safety issues and trail courtesy and take a ride on the trails with Park Police.  In addition, bicycle safety and trail information provided by the San Antonio Office of Environmental Policy and the San Antonio Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization.  This event supports National Bike Month.  Other San Antonio events for the month can be found by visiting www.walkandrollsa.com

Join Nyta Brown, of Texas Parks and Wildlife, Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area, who will tell us everything she knows about bats.  Kid friendly activity included.

Presented by Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy and Alamo Area Master Naturalists