Community Forums

With co-sponsorship by The Indianapolis Star, the Friends of Garfield Park and the Friends of Holliday Park, Indy Parks & Recreation hosted two community forums to discuss the state of our city’s park system and ideas for its future. Attendees learned about arts programming, urban gardens, grassroots fundraising, community partnerships and volunteering at Indy Parks aquatic centers, family centers and neighborhood parks, and offered ideas.

• With continuing budget cuts, could Indy’s parks become wrecks?, by Francesca Jarosz, August 30
• Former White River School’s land is officially a park, by Gretchen Becker, August 27
• Make our outdoors great: Parks need some TLC, by The Star Editorial Board, August 23
• Residents need to help address dire finances, by Lisa Hurst, president, Friends of Holliday Park, August 23
• Need for community help never greater, by Stuart Lowry, director, Indy Parks & Recreation, August 23
• City parks provide respite for residents, but face serious challenges, by The Star Editorial Board, August 23