Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Proposed project would update landscaping and features of Spalding Point, a land parcel adjacent to Memorial Field. District 87 board members will vote on approval of the donation that will fund the project May 20.
The Glenbard High School District 87 Board of Education at its May 20 meeting will vote to accept a donation of about $92,000 for a landscaping project adjacent to Memorial Field. Spalding Point, a triangular land parcel immediately west of Memorial Field at the intersection of Park Avenue and Crescent Boulevard, would undergo a complete makeover. Designed by Glen Ellyn architect Tina Koral, the public space would include memorial components, designated dining areas, walkways and landscaping that are cohesive with the Memorial Field landscape, according to the project goals listed on the District 87 website. A similar project was completed last fall on a smaller parcel just west of the field. Glen Ellyn Park District board member Ron …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
GardenWorks is a grassroots program in its second year in DuPage County. The program will help families in need grow their own fresh vegetables.
The ground is hard as a rock and planting season is months away, but for one Glen Ellyn resident, gardening season can’t arrive soon enough. Tina Koral, owner of landscape design firm Tina Koral Gardens, is not thinking about her own garden. Rather, she is planning how to help others throughout the area learn to grow and cultivate their own food. Koral founded GardenWorks DuPage, a grassroots project with the goal of eliminating hunger and providing fresh, healthy produce to families in need. Families who participate in GardenWorks will have a vegetable garden planted at their home and receive instruction on how to maintain the plot. The GardenWorks project helped four families last year. Koral and her husband funded the project, she said…
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Next week, the District 87 Board of Education will consider a landscape project.
A project is in the works that would soften the impact of lights and sounds coming from Glenbard West’s Memorial Field. And, taxpayers won’t be paying a dime toward implementation. Next week, the Glenbard District 87 Board of Education will consider a landscape project, which was the idea of community members Ron and Mary Ann Aubrey. The project would use plantings and trees to create a buffer zone in the west and southwest portions of Memorial Field. Local landscape designer Tina Koral provided goals and plans for the project, which includes a variety of ground cover plantings, along with trees to provide screening, according to District 87. The goals of the project are: Among the plants specified for the project are: grow-low sumac, …
Samantha Liss
7:06 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Did the district set up the community advisory panel to be the conduit between the community and the district regarding the light issues, yet? I'm just curious after covering this topic heavily last year and the beginning of this year. Thanks, Mary, hope you're enjoying Glen Ellyn! more ›