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
Water Activities Temporarily Suspended at White Rock Lake [Shared from Dallas Parks & Recreation] As a result of the recent sewage spill into White Rock Creek, Dallas Park and Recreation officials are suspending water-related activities at White Rock Lake Park. This decision comes after the City of Plano experienced a sanitary sewage overflow that affected White Rock Creek.To protect public health, park officials advise residents and park visitors not to fish or enter the water because
If you’ve noticed an increase in coyote activity around White Rock Lake, you’re not alone. While typically reclusive animals, coyotes are intelligent and adaptable to increased human activity, and may venture more closely to our communities in search of food. Thanks to resources from our friends at Dallas Animal Services, we’re sharing a few safety tips and reporting processes should you an encounter a coyote on your next visit to the lake. This
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
September 21, 2023
Our region’s biggest day of online charitable giving is happening TODAY and we need your help! For the Love of the Lake has set an ambitious goal to raise $20,000 through NTX Giving Day this year to support our key initiatives and outfit our volunteer teams so collectively we can make the largest impact. As we like to say, “every litter bit helps,” and even $5 can make a big impact. Be a part of
NTX Giving Day helps build awareness and support for nonprofits in our region like nothing else. Every year in September, Communities Foundation of Texas’ NTX Giving Day challenges and galvanizes residents across North Texas to fundraise for and donate to their favorite charitable causes. The one-day online giving extravaganza has become the largest community-wide giving event in the nation and has ignited a broad culture of community-wide giving. Early giving is NOW OPEN and we have an ambitious
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
Thank you for voting for White Rock Lake Park | For The Love of The Lake! For The Love of The Lake is nominated on behalf of White Rock Lake Park for Best Park and we know SO many of you voted for us. THANK YOU. ADVOCATE MAGAZINE has always supported living local and they were proud to add For The Love of The Lake on behalf of White Rock Lake Park to the list of nominees for Advocates Best of
Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up at White Rock Lake Park Thank you for your continued support, month after month! We want to say THANK YOU to everyone (200+ volunteers!) who came out to our White Rock Lake clean up this past month, Saturday, April 8th 2023!! 😍 Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up wouldn’t exist without the many neighbors, friends, business groups, student groups, and various amazing volunteers who give their time to cleaning up White Rock Lake with us. 🌊 Y’all are THE BEST.✨ Here