Help City Park get $50K

[where yat brah]

Fourth and Goal, 5 Seconds on the Clock, City Park Needs Your Help to Win $50,000

5/19/09
City Park is one of five national finalists in a contest presented by Redwood Creek Wines. The winner will receive $50,000. At City Park, the funds will be used for tree planting and improvements to Couturie Forest. The winner will also be featured in a national advertising campaign! Voting concludes on May 31st.

In order to win, residents have to vote for City Park. Folks can vote twice each day: once online at http://www.blazethetrail.com/greatoutdoors/vote/ and once via text by texting PARK to 39668. You can vote online once per 24 hours with voting reset at midnight EST. You can also vote via SMS once per 24 hours, however voting by SMS resets 24 hours from when you cast your vote.

We are currently in second place but momentum is on our side. Three weeks ago we trailed the first place contestant by 2,500 votes. Two weeks ago we were behind by 2,000 votes. Today we have narrowed the gap to only 800 votes. WE CAN WIN THIS FOLKS!

How to help:

1. Vote yourself each day. Voting once helps, but if the park is to win we need people to vote each day.
2. Talk to the president of your company or the appropriate decision maker and ask them to get the word out to all your employees. If we could get more employers to encourage/require their employees to vote each day we’d leave the other contestants in the dust!

John Hopper
Chief Development Officer &
Director of Public Affairs
New Orleans City Park
1 Palm Drive
New Orleans, LA 70124

(504) 259-1509
jhopper@nocp.org
www.neworleanscitypark.com

[Belle]

voted just now..thanks

You have a great avatar, glad to see you haven't changed it

[i wanna be in NOLA]

done

[sharon_loves_fats]

Just voted. Thanks for posting this.

[i wanna be in NOLA]

bump

it's a new day!

[Hollyhawk]

voted

[Belle]

Just figured out that all three computers can vote..different IP's Woo Hoo

[Orleansnj]

yea - voted ! This is a great idea....

[mightyradgumbo]

Got my vote in for today for my neighborhood park

[Blitzzzzz]

BUMPIN FOR THE PARK!
Just so you know, you have to register with the Winery before you can vote, so use your spam address. Of course, promotions from a winery might not be too much to bear for this group. I was hoping for samples but all they are offering is posters and of course, 50K for City Park!:cool:

[i wanna be in NOLA]

Also, when you register there's a place where you can unselect the "send me spam" default. I haven't gotten anything beyond the first authorization email, but then it's only been 3 days...

I did look around the site and found some interesting things. Here's a spring roll recipe that looks pretty good.

Ingredients:
* 8 8-inch round spring roll wrappers
* 8 ounces fresh or frozen cooked, peeled and deveined shrimp, coarsely chopped (1-1/3 cups)
* 1 small head Bibb lettuce, cored and shredded (2 cups)
* 1 cup shredded carrots (2 medium)
* 1/4 cup sliced green onions (2)
* 2 tablespoons snipped fresh cilantro
* 5 tablespoons purchased peanut dipping sauce
* 2 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar

Directions

1. Place some warm water in a shallow dish. Dip each spring roll wrapper in warm water; place between damp paper towels for 10 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, for filling, in a large bowl combine shrimp, lettuce, carrots, green onions, and cilantro. Add 2 tablespoons of the peanut dipping sauce and 1 tablespoon of the rice vinegar. Toss to coat.

3. For the dipping sauce, in a small bowl stir together the remaining 3 tablespoons peanut sauce and 1 tablespoon rice vinegar; set aside.

4. Place about 1/2 cup of the filling about 1/2 inch from the bottom edge of 1 of the moistened spring roll wrappers. Fold the bottom edge of the wrapper over the filling. Fold in sides. Roll up. Repeat with remaining filling and spring roll wrappers. Cut in half; serve with dipping sauce. Makes 4 servings (8 rolls)

[Staxsun]

BUMPIN FOR THE PARK!
Just so you know, you have to register with the Winery before you can vote, so use your spam address. Of course, promotions from a winery might not be too much to bear for this group. I was hoping for samples but all they are offering is posters and of course, 50K for City Park!:cool:

They also ask a lot of nosy none-of-their-business questions, as well.

[Zydekitten]

Voted for today!

[Hollyhawk]

just voted....

[i wanna be in NOLA]

me too

[sharon_loves_fats]

bump

[i wanna be in NOLA]

ity bump

[Hollyhawk]

done for today

[Belle]

ity bump


I love Rocky by the way.

[mightyradgumbo]

Remember it is by ip address so the more computers you have the more votes. Thanks everyone who has voted to help City Park. The park is my neighborhood park now and they have a wide variety of things already going on. This will help greatly to help restore it to its pre-Katrina state.

[i wanna be in NOLA]

Voting concludes on May 31st.

In order to win, residents have to vote for City Park. Folks can vote twice each day: once online at http://www.blazethetrail.com/greatoutdoors/vote/ and once via text by texting PARK to 39668. You can vote online once per 24 hours with voting reset at midnight EST. You can also vote via SMS once per 24 hours, however voting by SMS resets 24 hours from when you cast your vote.

We are currently in second place but momentum is on our side. Three weeks ago we trailed the first place contestant by 2,500 votes. Two weeks ago we were behind by 2,000 votes. Today we have narrowed the gap to only 800 votes. WE CAN WIN THIS FOLKS!



One week to go!

[Belle]

This reminds me of the lighthouse voting and that worked for Nola too. This however is a very large gift of cash to a wonderful park.

Just voted...lets do it

[mightyradgumbo]

Cast my vote today....C'mon be a parkhead

[Hollyhawk]

parkhead for the day

[mightyradgumbo]

Crunchtime, y'all...Voting has not been updated but I hope that City Park is in first when it is. Please help, won't you?

[i wanna be in NOLA]

click

[Hollyhawk]

Crunchtime, y'all...Voting has not been updated but I hope that City Park is in first when it is. Please help, won't you?

And you got your wish by + 597. Time to pull out the big guns and hit 'em with text votes! With on line and text this house yields 6 votes per day.

[i wanna be in NOLA]

woohoo!!!

Current rank (as of 5/26 at midnight PST):

* Friends of New Orleans City Park 14,112 votes
* Arizona Trail Association 13,515 votes
* WildEarth Guardians 5,082 votes
* Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey 4,066 votes
* National Forest Foundation 2,820 votes

vs last week's totals

# Arizona Trail Association 10,096 votes
# Friends of New Orleans City Park 8,877 votes
# WildEarth Guardians 4,207 votes
# Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey 3,680 votes
# National Forest Foundation 2,258 votes

[Zydekitten]

woohoo!!!
Keep up the voting, y'all!!!

[sharon_loves_fats]

Yay, currently in 1st!!!

[Orleansnj]

voted !!! More voting.....!!!!!

[i wanna be in NOLA]

cha-ching!

[Chas_P]

Lever pulled. Too bad it's going to end during CFF, that might cut down on votes at the end.

[i wanna be in NOLA]

text messages will work.

[Belle]

voted

[mightyradgumbo]

Just to let y'all know that we are not in this alone, someone (maybe the paper itself) has taken out an ad in the Times-Picayune about this endeavor. We can win this thing and I really appreciate all y'all's help with this.

[Hollyhawk]

six from votes from this house today!

[sharon_loves_fats]

bump

[Belle]

bump

Thanks sweetie!! See ya real soon too!

[sharon_loves_fats]

Belle, see you TOMORROW! Really looking forward to meeting you! And I have heard about your awesome hugs :)

[mightyradgumbo]

Pulled the lever again today....and I voted heh heh

[Delta]

Pulled the lever again today....and I voted heh heh

*SNORT*

[i wanna be in NOLA]

hehehehehe

voted

Hey Belle -- can we put you in charge of the CFF text brigade?

[Belle]

hehehehehe

voted

Hey Belle -- can we put you in charge of the CFF text brigade?

Put me in charge of anything you want!!!! Dont forget I owe you big time and thank you..

[i wanna be in NOLA]

you're welcome -- have a great time!

[i wanna be in NOLA]

Some of the supporters of the other causes are starting to jump on the AZ trail bandwagon.

I'd hate to see the money wasted on a Park in New Orleans that might get devastated by another hurricane in the future.....I'm all for CWF, but now I'm voting for AZ trail!!!

[Zydekitten]

Some of the supporters of the other causes are starting to jump on the AZ trail bandwagon.
:eek: :mad:

[mightyradgumbo]

Some of the supporters of the other causes are starting to jump on the AZ trail bandwagon.

Oh I am going over to that other bored and giving that person a verbal ass kicking

[Belle]

Bumping before we leave town..keep voting

[i wanna be in NOLA]

Final push, folks!!!!

[mightyradgumbo]

Voted again...last day and a half y'all.

[i wanna be in NOLA]

Last chance!

[Jada]

Please help make this happen and vote. Thanks!

[festfreak]

We won!! City Park gets the $50k...good work, peeps!

[Zydekitten]

I KNOW!!! I just got the announcement text message too!

WOO HOO!!!!

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Network/7525/woohoo.gif

Here's the official announcement on the Redwood Creek Great Outdoors Project website:

http://www.blazethetrail.com/greatoutdoors/

[sharon_loves_fats]

That's awesome!!! :D

[Hollyhawk]

This is fantastic, just read the text too! Can somebody take before, during and after pics for those of us who cannot watch the transformation in person?

[i wanna be in NOLA]

EXCELLENT NEWS!

[Blitzzzzz]

This is fantastic, just read the text too! Can somebody take before, during and after pics for those of us who cannot watch the transformation in person?

Yeah, how about that, great news! Wanna bet it's not the last text we get from those guys.:cool:

[mightyradgumbo]

This is fantastic, just read the text too! Can somebody take before, during and after pics for those of us who cannot watch the transformation in person?

I can prolly do that. I just have to find the "before" location.

[Zydekitten]

http://cdn.blazethetrail.com/store/images/store_product_photo_irUFupVz4IQC_large.jpg

To celebrate City Park as the 2009 Winner of the Greater Outdoors Project grant, Redwood Creek winery has created this lovely vintage style poster!!!

I just ordered one and you can get your own here: http://www.blazethetrail.com/store/detail/?id=36

:)