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The OUTDOOR COMMUNITY CLASSROOM at Buchanan Park is now OPEN!
The OUTDOOR COMMUNITY CLASSROOM at Buchanan Park is now OPEN!
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
CLEAN WATER FUND GRANT 2024-25
CLEAN WATER FUND GRANT 2024-25
River Pathway Connections Outdoor Community Classroom - Phase 2
River Pathway Connections Outdoor Community Classroom - Phase 2
OPENING EVENT! Saturday, September 20, 2025
10am - 1pm at Buchanan Park
College Park Climate Action Neighborhood is pleased to announce the awarding of a Clean Water Partners and Lancaster Community Foundation grant to implement Phase II of our River Pathway Connections program - the Outdoor Community Classroom. Working with extraordinary partners including Lancaster Compost Cooperative at Buchanan Park, Franklin & Marshall, North Museum and others, our vision to create a welcoming climate based educational space in and around the College Park neighborhood is now possible.
Painting by Jerry Brown
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Contact Melissa Snavely at CollegeParkCAN@gmail.com
The Objective of the River Pathway Connections
Outdoor Community Classroom
is to -
Invoke curiosity and wonder in our youth, but really all ages.
Stimulate the senses as a way to observe and learn.
Ignite meaningful connections to the outdoors and its inhabitants.
Challenge our thinking about the natural world and our profound effect upon it, including the effects we have upon those beyond our immediate community.
Inspire creative and constructive problem solving
Thank you to the Lancaster County Community Foundation and the Lancaster Clean Water Partners for supporting our vision!
We are also grateful to the City of Lancaster, Franklin & Marshall College and especially to Lancaster Compost at Buchanan Park, Jerry Brown and Anna Smucker.
THE GOAL of the College Park Climate Action Neighborhood and its partners is to create an outdoor science classroom to be utilized by city residents, educators and citizen scientists (young and old) to help better understand the correlation between our natural world and our man-made world. Focusing on our trees, native wildlife habitat, rain gardens, composting and our waterways, including storm water drains and what flows into them, the outdoor classroom will demonstrate that our behavior is connected to the health of our ecosystem. Additionally utilizing art, signage and an on-line educational component the importance of that connection will compel us all to take action where we live.
LOVE YOUR BLOCK GRANT RECIPIENT - the City of Lancaster 2024 (PHASE 1)
LOVE YOUR BLOCK GRANT RECIPIENT - the City of Lancaster 2024 (PHASE 1)
Thank you to all of our partners, participants, artists, poets, attendees, and Mother Nature for providing a wonderful day of science, art, smoothies, fun and sun!
The City of Lancaster North Museum West Art The Artivist Corp
Lancaster Compost Clean Water Partners Pam Lazos Jeff Lapp
Kristen Thomas Arianna Rich The Wellness Grove College Park CAN Volunteers
“River Pathway Connections”
“River Pathway Connections”
The Art and Science of Curiosity - Community Event
The Art and Science of Curiosity - Community Event
Corners of Buchanan and College Ave
With the encouragement of the City of Lancaster Office of Neighborhood Engagement College Park Climate Action Neighborhood applied for and received a Love Your Block Grant to install storm water drain murals on the corner of Buchanan and College Ave.
Our goal for River Pathway Connections was to bring attention to the correlation between our upstream behaviors and the downstream implications that affect our neighbors. How we manage water runoff, how we treat our lawns, how we incorporate native plants into our landscape, how we keep debris out of the city’s combined sewer system, makes a difference.
THE SIDEWALK STORM WATER DRAIN MURALS are now complete!
Be sure to visit the corners of Buchanan and College Ave to see these beautiful works of art!
MEET OUR ARTISTS!
MEET OUR ARTISTS!
Charlie Boyce: Charlie Boyce (they/she) is a 21 year old rising senior BFA student of Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, who specializes in mixed media art. They create works that explore the ideas of traditional social standards. She uses recycled and found materials, such as any everyday plastic or cardboard and makes them look just as special as any other artwork. Instagram @flaeky53
Artist's Working Sketch for Storm Drain Mural
Krista Canoles: Krista Canoles (she/her) is a multimedia artist and Rising Senior at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. Her body of work contains illustrative and whimsical artwork that honors the natural world, explores the connection between nature and the human experience, and critiques the human condition. With a firm belief in the importance of art as an educational tool, Krista aims to spread environmental awareness through publicly accessible art installation. Her storm drain mural, which will be located near the entrance of the North Museum, will highlight the symbiotic relationships between native plant / animal species and Pennsylvania’s waterways—bringing the public’s attention to the importance of keeping these areas free of pollution. Instagram @punkdxddyoddities
Artist's Working Sketch for Storm Drain Mural
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