JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 JaxParks is inviting community members and organizations to participate in volunteer opportunities across local parks in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
The city program offers options ranging from single-day service projects to extended park adoption commitments. Volunteers assist with park maintenance, environmental care, youth sports coaching and community center instruction.<\/p>\n
Group service projects are available for local businesses, schools, churches, scouts and other organized groups. These single-day events include planting trees, trail maintenance, shoreline clean-ups and other general park improvements. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The Adopt a Park program provides an option for longer-term involvement for individuals or organizations. The initiative features a renewable two-year adoption period and requires participants to conduct at least six cleanups per year at their selected park.<\/p>\n JaxParks also hosts opportunities for youth pursuing Eagle Scout and Gold Award service projects.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re interested in any of these options, email adoptapark@coj.net or click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 JaxParks is inviting community members and organizations to participate in volunteer opportunities across local parks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,162299,28,348,116,351,118,117,14879,349,139812,350,7196,346,345],"class_list":["post-408656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-environmental-care","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jaxparks","tag-northeast-florida","tag-park-maintenance","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-volunteer-opportunities","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}