Students come to the rescue of a neighborhood park

Students and adult volunteers with the GM internship program do some needed pruning and cleaning up at the Holbrook Garden.

By Charles Sercombe
A long neglected – and little known – city park is receiving some tender loving care.
Hamtramck Public Schools students involved in this year’s General Motors Student Corps program teamed up with the city’s Community & Economic Development Department to bring the Holbrook Garden back to life.
The park, located across from Holbrook Elementary School on Alice, has not been kept up for a number of years.
Last week, students trimmed back overgrown bushes, weeded and generally spruced the site up.
The park was earlier mowed by a neighborhood volunteer, Jeremy Duncan, who happens to also be a Hamtramck DDA Boardmember and is working on opening a business on Jos. Campau — Henrietta Haus, said Kathy Angerer, the Director of Community & Economic Development.
Angerer has been working with students in the GM internship program for the past couple of years. She said students said they wanted to tackle this project and have big plans for it.
“The student ideas include adding benches, new signage, plants, creating a habitat for butterflies and generally making this park a serene place that will be an asset to this neighborhood,” Angerer said.