A “Walk and Talk” will be held at New Quarter Park Friday, which will be led by Denise Greene of Sassafras Farm in Gloucester and Jeanne Millin of the Virginia Master Gardeners, Tree Stewards, and Virginia Master Naturalists.

These native plant and gardening experts will lead visitors on the Teaching Garden Trail, which has been developed by local chapters of the Virginia Native Plant Society, Virginia Master Naturalists, and Virginia Master Gardeners with a variety of native plants that grow well in the dappled shade of the woodlands and tolerate local summer heat and drought conditions.

Greene will bring a variety of native plants to show a wider variety of native plants that participants can use in different settings. Millin will explain how the rain garden was constructed to calm and infiltrate stormwater runoff from the parking lot while taking advantage of the natural slope and not damaging tree roots.

The Walk and Talk will be held Friday from 10 a.m. to noon.

At 1 p.m., Millin will lead an Invasive Plant Removal Day event. The local event is one of many Invasive Plant Removal events that are part of a statewide event to remove invasive plants from public lands.

New Quarter Park is located at 1000 Lakeshead Drive. For more information call York County Parks and Recreation at 890-3513 or New Quarter Park at 890-5840.

Safety Town Needs Volunteers

York County’s popular Safety Town program, a summer activity for pre-kindergarten children, has many volunteer opportunities for middle school and high school students as well as adults.

This award-winning program seeks to reduce childhood injury by teaching five-year-olds basic safety concepts through hands-on, interactive learning experiences.

Youth and adult volunteers are needed to serve as Leader Assistants, responsible for helping staff group leaders monitor and supervise an assigned group of 10 children. Volunteer hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., Monday through Friday, according to the following Safety Town schedules for 2011:

Date Location

July 11 - July 15 Mt. Vernon Elementary School

July 18- July 22 Mt. Vernon Elementary School

July 25 - July 29 Mt. Vernon Elementary School

August 1 – August 5 Magruder Elementary School

All Safety Town volunteers receive a t-shirt, recognition at the weekly completion ceremony, and an invitation to a post-program Volunteer Appreciation Picnic. Interested volunteers must be available to attend the volunteer training on June 22 at the Public Safety Conference Room at 301 Goodwin Neck Road from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

For the purposes of scheduling and consistency, Safety Town coordinators are requiring all selected volunteers to commit to one entire week of the program this summer.

Contact York County Parks and Recreation at 890-3500 to receive a volunteer application or get them on the county’s website. Applications will be accepted starting May 2, and will continue to be accepted until all spots are filled or until the deadline of Friday, June 3.

Plant Sale

The York County Master Gardeners will hold a plant sale on Saturday, May 7, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Learning Garden located at 301 Goodwin Neck Road (adjacent to the York County Public Safety Building).

Annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees will be for sale at the Learning Garden Plant Sale. Limit of one set of Yorktown Onions per family. This event is sponsored by Virginia Cooperative Extension.

For more information, call the Extension Office at 890-4940.

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