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North Star Park (Purple Park) Water Fountain and Decorative Tile Project Update
The City of Madison has installed the water bubbler in North Star Park (Purple Park). The MPNA Parks Committee would like to offer to you and your family an opportunity to once again purchase and place a tile on a decorative display at the water fountain at the park. The ceramic tiles are 6 inches square and you can hand decorate the tile with any design you would like.

The ceramic tiles can be purchased from Fired Up Pottery in Cottage Grove for $30 each or two tiles for $50. You can purchase as many tiles as you would like to have on the display, perhaps one for each member of your family. Kim is the proprietor of Fired Up Pottery in Cottage Grove and has all of the supplies and paints for you and your family to have a nice outing creating a memorable plaque that will last for a lifetime. Fired Up Pottery will then take the painted tile and place it into the kiln to create the final tile that will go into the display at the park.

The proceeds from the sale of each tile will be used to help build the display around the bubbler. We expect to complete the tile project in late spring or early summer so if you are interested please contact Fired Up Pottery right away or just go there; the hours and directions are shown on the attached map. If you have any questions please direct them to the MPNA Parks Committee.
The contact information for Fired Up Pottery is:
Fired Up Pottery
www.fireduppottery.com

425 West Cottage Grove Road
Cottage Grove, Wisconsin

  For more information download the Word document.

Dominion Pond Beautification Project

      MPNA worked with the City of Madison to receive a grant to beautify the retention pond area at the corner of Dominion and Sprecher.  We are looking for volunteers to help install landscaping plants and features next Spring and to help maintain the new plants during the growing season.  Schonheit Gardens in Sun Prairie kindly donated time and some of the planting materials for this project.  Please send an email to board@mympna.org if you would like to help with this worthy project in the Spring.

Farmers Market in McClellan Park Neighborhood?

    Alder Lauren Cnare has been talking with the MPNA board and the Sprecher East Neighborhood Association board about the possiblity of bringing a farmers market to our neighborhood.  The topic is in its infancy stage.  Contact us at board@mympna.org to be on the ground floor of this exciting project! 

MPNA Garage Sale - UPDATE

The MPNA Garage Sale has been scheduled for Friday June 4 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Saturday June 5 from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Signs will be posted at the entrances on Cottage Grove Rd., Sprecher and Milwaukee Street. A notice will appear in Craigslist.

Each morning attach colorful balloons, a bright flag or rag on a post near the entrance to your driveway or on the mailbox to provide an easy way for people to locate your garage sale.

St. Vincent De Paul may pick up items you wish to donate after the garage sale. You may contact them by dialing 257-0673 for the Williamson Street Store

Contact MPNA Board if you would like to help make and distribute signs.

There will be signs posted to direct traffic to the MPNA neighborhood on Cottage Grove Road, Sprecher and Milwaukee Street.

The MPNA Board will provide more details in the next newsletter.

Neighborhood Parks

Here is information on the matching program for improving our parks in the neighborhood. http://www.cityofmadison.com/parks/howVol.html

Northstar and McClellan are the only two City of Madison parks that would be involved in the program for our McClellan Park Neighborhood Association; this matching funds program is for neighborhood associations mainly. The Pocket Park is privately built by Veridian and not kept up by the City of Madison.

For Individuals who want to help out the parks, you can contribute by adding trees. ~$370 shade tree, ~$175-$200 ornamental serviceberry or crabapple tree. A plaque for a tree is an extra ~$200.

Individuals can also purchase for the park: benches ($1,000 on up) or all metal picnic tables ($1,000 on up) and these are left in the park year round; adding a plaque is an additional $100 to these items.

These individual gifts become the product to the city of Madison, the plaque is allowed to be placed on this gift for the fee. The plaque is a basic text and has to be approved by the City of Madison, usually for a memorial, 50 year anniversary, birthday, babies birth etc...

Here is another Madison parks program... http://www.madisonparksfoundation.org

Laura Whitmore can be contacted at the City of Madison Parks; Parks Community Relations Coordinator at 266-5949, for more information on these programs.