{"id":2555,"date":"2012-02-14T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2012-02-14T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:01:53","slug":"vote-for-the-valley-park-go-green-cricket-field-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"Vote for the Valley Park Go Green Cricket Field Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Valley Park Go Green Cricket Field Project is one of the charities looking for support from the MLSE Team Up Foundation. Support is allocated via a public voting system, so register and vote at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlseteamupfoundation.org\/giving\/team-up-foundation-fund\/\">MLSE Team Up Foundation page<\/a>!<br \/>\nAbout the project<br \/>\nPlease vote for our project! Pass our cricket bat from hand to hand and join a growing community of donors supporting our environmentally sustainable multi-use cricket field project for the Priority Neighbourhoods of Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park. Our sports field accommodates cricket, baseball and soccer and will be irrigated by an innovative rooftop rainwater harvesting system. <!--more-->An underground tank will store rooftop and surface waters and connect to a bioswale and wetland. The field will be surrounded by a community-planted urban forest, butterfly meadow, food garden, running track and amphitheatre seating.<br \/>\nProject Goals<br \/>\nThe goal of our project is develop a multi-use sport field. Our sports field accommodates cricket, baseball and soccer and will be irrigated by an innovative rooftop rainwater harvesting system. An underground tank will store rooftop and surface waters and connect to a bioswale and wetland. The field will be surrounded by a community-planted urban forest, butterfly meadow, food garden, running track and amphitheatre seating. We are a community partnership between Valley Park Middle School, Toronto &#038; Region Conservation Authority, and the two neighbourhood settlement services agencies: Flemingdon Neighbourhood Services and Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office. We are taking VPMS land and combining it with adjacent Hydro land to create greater recreational space for two densely populated urban communities. The goal is to reconnect the site to the adjacent Don River Valley, to recreate a riparian habitat (where water meets land) and become \u201cPeople of the Don,\u201d ecologically conscious Environmental Stewards who seek to celebrate and conserve water and land and preserve its delicate balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valley Park Go Green Cricket Field Project is one of the charities looking for support from the MLSE Team Up Foundation. Support is allocated via a public voting system, so register and vote at the MLSE Team Up Foundation page! About the project Please vote for our project! Pass our cricket bat from hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}