The Friends of Hamlin Beach State Park and park staff welcomed over 60 volunteers to the sixth annual I Love My Park Day at Hamlin Beach State Park on Saturday, May 6. Volunteers were welcomed upon registration with hot coffee, hot chocolate and doughnuts provided by the Hamlin Lions Club.
After a brief opening by co-chairs Jeanine Klopp and Holly Jennejahn, and remarks by Hamlin Beach park manager Kate Gross and Hamlin Town Supervisor Eric Peters, volunteers spent the morning tackling a variety of work projects for all ages and interests.
A group of volunteers, including Cub Scouts from Pack 394, cleaned debris along the beachfront. Others cleaned out and weeded flower bed areas and raked out winter debris from the horseshoe pits. Clean-up was also done at the Recreation Hall in the camping area in anticipation of the opening of camping season.
Thanks goes out to Tops Friendly Markets in Hamlin for their donation of water and snacks as well as the pizzas that were donated by Mark’s Pizzeria in Hamlin, and applesauce by state-wide sponsor GoGo Squeez. Tickets for free admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown were also raffled off.
The Friends of Hamlin Beach State Park is a nonprofit, charitable organization founded to support programs, services, activities and preservation at Hamlin Beach State Park.
I Love My Park Day is a statewide event organized by Parks & Trails New York in partnership with the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. This year, close to 8,000 volunteers pitched in on over 250 clean-up, beautification and improvement projects at 125 state parks, historic sites and public lands across the state.
Photos of the event at Hamlin Beach State Park can be seen at facebook.com/FOHBSP.
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