For the Love of the Lake is partnering with the 2024 BMW Dallas Marathon to place course monitors along the race route. Course monitors play an important role during the race. Volunteers are stationed at crucial points along the race course to help direct and cheer on runners, ensuring they do not leave the official race route. More information about course monitor responsibilities and how to register can be found below. Interested volunteers can register to join the course monitor team
Have you caught this week’s issue of White Rock Lake Weekly? For the Love of the Lake is featured on the front page! It was honor to spend time with renowned golfer Jordan Spieth, celebrating the completion of our 20th anniversary project, the Flag Pole Hill Inclusive Playground, funded by the Jordan Spieth Family Foundation. This idea for this playground was initiated by former FTLOTL president Liz Akins, who dreamed of providing a place
October 9, 2023
Once a month, a volunteer group of senior adults living at CC Young Senior Center, gather to perform a special task for For the Love of the Lake. CC Young became an official Adopt-A-Shoreline group in 2016. Energized by the Adopt-A-Shoreline program, they wondered if there was more they could do to support For the Love of the Lake. They willingly embraced a new project; rolling individual trash bags and recycling
August 22, 2023
The White Rock Lake Navy recently assisted the City of Dallas Park and Recreation department in removing numerous floating and stuck logs from White Rock Lake. This removal effort and was the second collaboration among the Navy volunteers from the Corinthian Sailing Club, The Spirit of Dallas, Dallas United Crew, White Rock Rowing and the White Rock Boat Club. Dallas Park and Recreation Maintenance team doesn’t have the appropriate equipment or boats to remove these logs and couldn’t accomplish this feat without
Support for For the Love of the Lake can come in so many forms. Our signature programs allow us to engage with volunteers in-person and lend our time to keeping White Rock Lake Park beautiful. But we always appreciate opportunities to reach more Dallasites who treasure our urban oasis through partnerships with community organizations and local businesses. For the Love of the Lake was recently added as a benefiting organization of the Kroger Community Rewards program, which
For the Love of the Lake is pleased to announce we have been selected as a recipient of the Buffalo Exchange Tokens for Bags® program, running from July through December 2023. To participate, bring your own bags along to shop our local Greenville Ave. Buffalo Exchange store. Instead of a plastic bag, the Tokens for Bags® program offers every customer who makes a purchase one “token” valued at five cents (the cost to produce a bag) to donate to one of
We love when two of our favorite things, coffee and White Rock Lake, come together! We want to extend a huge THANK YOU to Merit Coffee for selecting For the Love of the Lake as the beneficiary of their recent community engagement campaign. We are blown away by the generosity of Merit Coffee and its patrons, who together raised an incredible $4,000 for our organization in the month of June. These funds will do so much to