Spreckels Memorial Park

Spreckels Memorial Park ~ Spreckels, CA

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Spreckels Veterans Memorial Building

Available for Affairs, Banquets, Balls, Events, Meetings, Parties, Weddings and...

90 5th Street
Spreckels, CA 93962

Contact Us at: VeteransBuilding@SpreckelsPark.Org

(831) 455-2022

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Saturday May 4th

First Place

Second Place

Tied for Third

Tied for Third

Let the Art begin...

8:00 am

9:00 am

10:00 am

11:00 am

12:00 pm

1:00 pm

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Remember Last Year? No, Click Here

Whatever you do, make it a point to visit Gary and Sally's and take in the florid display.

The Croix de Candlestick pin was handed out to only the best and most diehard of SF Giants fans. After an extra inning game at Candlestick, any fan who braved the elements and stayed for the whole game was given the coveted pin. Candlestick Park's conditions past 10 o clock and the 9th inning at night were harsh and unforgiving. To own a Croix de Candlestick pin is a badge of honor that tells the world, "I love my Giants."

July 18-21, 2013

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Bubbles in the Park...

Roberta fascinates the children on a warm sunny Sunday morning.

Puppies in the Park

Look who showed up for Dog Training today in the park...
This litter of Belgian Tervuren puppies came for the post rain morning K9 activities. As the morning progressed the crowd of puppy admirers grew. One wag postulated that, "By noon we'll need police crowd control to handle the puppy admirers." Sorry folks, all the puppies are spoken for...

Visit the Dogs of Spreckels Park

Daniel provides an early Autumn Concert on his first day with his new Trumpet

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

Foundation for New Park Lights

The final milestone is at hand on the Spreckels Park Light Project. The last of the lamps are in place and are illuminated evenings for your Spreckels Soiree. The lights were first switched on late last summer and have brightened the Park since that time.

Capitalization for the project is from the Spreckels Town Improvement Fund.

An example of the complex intricacies in fabrication necessary to support each of the new Park Lights.

Thanks to Richard and Lochlan
Inverness Construction 831-455-5242 www.LochlanMcVicar.com
BAZ Electric Inc. 831-763-2042

Park Ranger Dave

Park Ranger Dave tends to the lawns of Spreckels Park

Praying Mantis
Mantodea

This Praying Mantis was recently observed and photographed on the baseball field of Spreckels Park.

The English common name for any species in the order is "praying mantis", because of the typical "prayer-like" attitude with folded fore-limbs, although the term "preying mantis" is sometimes used in reference to their predatory habits. Mantises are exclusively predatory. It is hard to make mantises eat meat that they have not caught themselves, but people have hand fed mantises to keep them alive or just for fun. Insects form the primary diet, but larger species of mantises have been known to prey on small scorpions, lizards, frogs, birds, snakes, fish, and even rodents; they will prey upon any species small enough to be successfully captured and devoured.

Gracie at Large

Gracie turned up MIA in Spreckels Park recently. Fortunately she was found by Susan and an APB and cohesive planning for a search operation for Gracie's owners, including a consultation with Kevin and Dave, was initiated. During the pre-planning portion of the operation, a voice was heard just outside of search headquarters. The voice called, "Gracie... Gracie..." Contact was made with Megan and a happy homecoming ensued.

Spreckels Park Lost and Found

Spreckels Summer Craft Show

With recently aquired treasures in hand, Spreckels Park Craft Fair visitors congregate.

Visit - Scott's Antique Auto Photo Show

Spreckels Park Little League Baseball

Summer in Spreckels Means Baseball!

June 3rd 2012

SPRECKELS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY

www.SpreckelsFire.com

The Spreckels Volunteer Fire Company hosted a Firefighters Muster and Competition on June 1 - 3. Fire Departments throughout California attended and took part in the competition. The competition took place on Llano between 1st and 4th Streets. Our own Spreckels Fire Department performed admirably and placed well in the competition.

May 24th - The Windy Windy Day

Gavin Successfully Tests his new idea to use Natural Resources as a Source of Propulsion.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
-John Steinbeck

Chalk in the Park is Back!

Chalk in the Park 2013

Last Year's Winners!

May 19, 2012

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Chalk in the Park... the 1st Place Winner!
$500

Where the Wild Things Are...

-Maurice Sendak

...the Tiger
Second Place
$300

...the Sea Diver
Third Place
$200

Amore... Love...

...the Visit to the Dentist

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Monterey County Free Libraries Bookmobile

Everyone visits the Bookmobile when it comes to Spreckels Park. Don, the Librarian, chats with Grey while Sadie anticipates fun in the park on a recent visit.

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Monterey County Free Library

Spreckels Chef Todd Fisher to host Discovery Channel Series

Spreckels own Todd Fisher, along with his crew will create three 60-minute food oriented shows for The Discovery Channel. The focus is to be on bacon, burgers and steak. Filming began in late April, and will proceed to famous food locations around the country such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and many small towns in between... maybe even Spreckels.

Way to Go! Todd!

Thanks to Dave of "Rusty, Honey and Dave" fame for bringing this news to our attention.

Chris' Chevy Tahoe gleams in the Spreckels Park Spring Sunset

The K9s of Spreckels Park

GUS and MARIBELLE!

The Arch Duke and Grand Duchess of Spreckels

Visit All of the Dogs of Spreckels Park

Click Here... to Go To The Dogs...

I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.
-John Steinbeck

Friday May 4th

Morning Showers Give Way and the Music of Children's Laughter Punctuates the Park

Sometimes it's great fun to be silly, like children playing statues and dying of laughter. And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start.
-John Steinbeck

Jacob and his Cosmic Electric Go-Kart tour the Park in Style
...while Dad keeps a watchful eye ...and sisters play nearby.

Well into Spring with Jordan, Anthony and Zack in the Trees...

... and Slide Trombones on the benches.

Alex provides a Spring Concert on his Slide Trombone near the Playground Slide to Kick Off the Weekend.

"I guess there are never enough books."
-John Steinbeck

April Fools Day Storm produces Snow above the Pastures of Heaven...

Hailstones on the Slide in the Park...

...and a Sharks Flag in the neighborhood.

...the Sharks flag has now come down. Wait 'til next year!

Sports & Games!

In addition to tennis on an illuminated arena, Spreckels Park supports baseball, softball, racquetball, volleyball, skateboarding, shuffleboard, handball, raquetball, geocaching, basketball, running, jogging, walking, K9 training/games, and horseshoes.

Girl Scouts of the United States of America

The Girl Scouts Celebrate their 100th Birthday at Spreckels Park ~ March 12, 1912 - March 12, 2012
Note: Item found at Girl Scout celebration... Visit Lost and Found

Visit Wikipedia's Spreckels Web Page

Spreckels is associated with the writer John Steinbeck, who lived and worked here for a time, and used the town as a setting in Tortilla Flat. (Spreckels was used as a location for the 1955 Steinbeck movie East of Eden.)

Steinbeck worked as a farm hand on the Spreckels sugar beet farm. During his summer work he noticed the difficult living conditions of his fellow workers, many of whom were migrant laborers. Years later those observations and the stories he heard the men tell would form the basis of his first great book, Tortilla Flat.

One Spreckels Park High Point

The Monkey Tree (native to Chile and Argentina) acts as a sentinel to the Playground, one of the "Go To" points for the children in the park.

"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."
-John Steinbeck

One of the many areas for a pleasant park picnic.

Full Beaver Moon over Fremont Peak

A WORD ABOUT SPRECKELS PARK
Providing recreation to Spreckels residents and visitors with variety, knowledge, care, and pride.

Spreckels Memorial Park ~ Spreckels, CA

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