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Minneapolis Green Roof Awareness

Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Announces Green Roof Gift from Central Roofing Company, a Tecta America Company, at Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Conference

 

Nation’s Largest Roofing Company Brings Green Roof Awareness to Local Light with TectaGreen Green Roof Installation at JD Rivers Children’s Park in Minneapolis to Celebrate Park’s 25th Birthday

 

WHAT:      

Press Conference and Cocktail Reception with media announcement regarding donation of a sloped green roof picnic shelter at the JD Rivers’ Children’s Garden, located in Theodore Wirth Park in North Minneapolis.

 

WHO:       

Tracy Nordstrom, Commissioner, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board

Tony Spigarelli, President, Central Roofing Company

Angie Durhman, Green Roof Specialist, Tecta America Corp.

Michael Krause, Principal, Kandiyohi Development Partners

 

WHEN:      

Monday, April 30, 2007

4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

 

WHERE:

Mirage Room, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

1300 Nicollet Minneapolis, MN

 

ABOUT JD RIVERS CHILDREN’S PARK

Each growing season the one-acre JD Rivers Children’s Garden, located in the Theodore Wirth Park in North Minneapolis hosts gardening programs and environmental education for youth, where they are able to plant, water, weed, harvest and sample garden produce. Youth also engage in hands-on learning focused on the surrounding natural environment of prairies, woodland and Bassett’s Creek.  This year the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is celebrating the Garden’s 25th birthday.   For more information, contact: MaryLynn Pulscher, Environmental Education Coordinator, mpulscher@minneapolisparks.org 612 313 7784.


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