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Santa Teresa Park Beautification, Day 1, 3/2/19 by Ronald Horii
This event was held at Santa Teresa Park on 3/2/19 and 3/3/19:
"Help clean up the neighborhood and build community pride. Projects include painting over graffiti, repairing fences and buildings, trimming trees, and removing overgrown brush and miscellaneous debris around the main house and outbuildings."
Here's the flyer for the event: http://www.stpfriends.org/Pictures/Santa_Teresa_Park_Beautification_3-2-19.pdf
It was held at a part of the park that is not yet open to the public. It is on Curie Drive west of Bernal Middle School. It was last owned by the Pyzak Family, so it is often called the Pyzak Ranch. It is between the Bear Tree lot to the west and the Bonetti Ranch to the east. These properties were part of the larger 10,000-acre Rancho Santa Teresa and were originally owned by the Bernal Family. The Santa Teresa County Park Historic Area Site Plan is a plan for the development of these properties into an interpretive site: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Pages/Santa-Teresa-Cnty-Prk-Hist-Area-Site-Pln.aspx
The Pyzak House on Curie Drive was originally owned by Jacoba Bernal and is referred to as such in the site plan. While the plan was approved in 2009, it has not been funded. The house is currently in mothballs, but vandals have broken into it, knocked down the fence, and graffiti'd the house, walls, and outbuildings. Also, since it's not an active park, the landscaping has not been maintained. It has become a rundown eyesore, which can attract further vandalism. The purpose of this workday was to reverse that trend by cleaning up and repairing the site.
Despite the early rain, volunteers, including members of the Friends of Santa Teresa Park, showed up to work alongside park rangers, park maintenance, and a County Sheriff's deputy. They primarily did landscape and ground maintenance. Park maintenance staff used power tools to trim and cut down trees. The volunteers hauled and stacked cut branches. They cleared mud off the driveway and walkways. They prepared fallen sections of the fence along Curie Drive for repair.
Here are pictures of day 2: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2233353183354858&type=1&l=2b8febc4dd
This event was a partnership between the Friends of Santa Teresa Park (www.stpfriends.org) and the Santa Clara County Parks Department, with partial funding from the City of San Jose's Beautify San Jose Grant. While the property is a County Park, the surrounding neighborhood is in the City of San Jose.
The pictures below are organized by work activity, and are not necessarily in chronological order.
This event was held at Santa Teresa Park on 3/2/19 and 3/3/19:
"Help clean up the neighborhood and build community pride. Projects include painting over graffiti, repairing fences and buildings, trimming trees, and removing overgrown brush and miscellaneous debris around the main house and outbuildings."
Here's the flyer for the event: http://www.stpfriends.org/Pictures/Santa_Teresa_Park_Beautification_3-2-19.pdf
It was held at a part of the park that is not yet open to the public. It is on Curie Drive west of Bernal Middle School. It was last owned by the Pyzak Family, so it is often called the Pyzak Ranch. It is between the Bear Tree lot to the west and the Bonetti Ranch to the east. These properties were part of the larger 10,000-acre Rancho Santa Teresa and were originally owned by the Bernal Family. The Santa Teresa County Park Historic Area Site Plan is a plan for the development of these properties into an interpretive site: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Pages/Santa-Teresa-Cnty-Prk-Hist-Area-Site-Pln.aspx
The Pyzak House on Curie Drive was originally owned by Jacoba Bernal and is referred to as such in the site plan. While the plan was approved in 2009, it has not been funded. The house is currently in mothballs, but vandals have broken into it, knocked down the fence, and graffiti'd the house, walls, and outbuildings. Also, since it's not an active park, the landscaping has not been maintained. It has become a rundown eyesore, which can attract further vandalism. The purpose of this workday was to reverse that trend by cleaning up and repairing the site.
Despite the early rain, volunteers, including members of the Friends of Santa Teresa Park, showed up to work alongside park rangers, park maintenance, and a County Sheriff's deputy. They primarily did landscape and ground maintenance. Park maintenance staff used power tools to trim and cut down trees. The volunteers hauled and stacked cut branches. They cleared mud off the driveway and walkways. They prepared fallen sections of the fence along Curie Drive for repair.
Here are pictures of day 2: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2233353183354858&type=1&l=2b8febc4dd
This event was a partnership between the Friends of Santa Teresa Park (www.stpfriends.org) and the Santa Clara County Parks Department, with partial funding from the City of San Jose's Beautify San Jose Grant. While the property is a County Park, the surrounding neighborhood is in the City of San Jose.
The pictures below are organized by work activity, and are not necessarily in chronological order.
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