Leave A Lasting Impression at Lake Harriet.
Give a unique gift to the people and parks you love! People for Parks is fund-raising to pave the audience area in front of the bandshell and refurbish the worn benches. Celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, marriages, a favorite friend, your business - any occasion with a personalized bench or paver!

• 5 x 5 paver – logo or three 12-character lines $75
• 5 x 11 paver – logo or three 25-character lines $125
• Adopt a bench!  Benches with no engraving: $1,000
• Benches with 37 character inscription $1,250
• Download Pavers and Bench Program form

All benches and pavers will be installed in the audience area at the Lake Harriet bandshell.

Please note, that in order to preserve the joyful atmosphere at the Bandshell, MPRB has requested that these benches and pavers not use words such as “in memory of”. For the benches they prefer a person’s name, for example: “Mary F. Johnson” or “The Johnson Family”. The pavers may use “In honor of”.

People for Parks is using environmentally friendly Holland Grand Permeable paving stones featuring wide, crushed-stone-filled joints that are layered over a crushed stone base allowing water to drain through the surface.

Contact info@peopleforparks.net for more information.

 The Healing Powers of Remembering

The purpose of memorials is to preserve and eternalize the name, memory, or deeds of those we love, honor, and appreciate. They are personally relevant, intimate, or private, as well as very public forms of expression in which we honor and eternalize the memories of others. These icons of remembrance play a critical role in the healing process after loss, trauma, and tragedies; as well as providing a way to publicly acknowledge the generosity, exceptional deeds and works of the living.

 Memorials are appropriate for the following purposes, occasions, and persons:

•  To commemorate or preserve a person(s) or events.
• To honor a deed or action.
• To celebrate special or momentous occasions such as a wedding, birth, graduation, anniversary or other accomplishments.
• To establish a place for reflection.
• To commemorate friends.
• To commemorate public servants.
• To recognize special dates and momentous occasions.
• Memorialize a beloved pet.
• And so on...

 For help with your memorial, call Felicity on 612-285-6557.

Planned Giving designates a charitable gift to People for Parks. This includes:

• Wills
• Bequests,
• Gifts of life insurance
• Charitable gift annuities,
• Charitable remainder trusts
  
• Wills and Bequests form

This generous form of giving leaves a lasting legacy. Contact info@peopleforparks.net for more information, or speak to your attorney or financial planner to devise a plan most suitable for you.