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Facebook and Foursquare for Riverside Park

Help Riverside Park win grant money from Coke-a-Cola.

Riverside Park is in the running to receive $100,000 from Coke-a-Cola and whether or not it wins is up to you. 

Be the change for Riverside Park Facebook page says: Riverside Park is moving around in the Top 10 (currently #7 as of June 19) in the nation, but it needs to be in the top 3 to be guaranteed a recreation grant. We all say the city needs change, so why not start here? If even a fraction of the people in the city voted each day, we could make it happen. The contest is posted in every group and page related to New London and now we hope to take it to the next level! 

Don't just say we need change, be the change-- Share with your friends, and let's rally our community to get one of these grants for the park. The winning park will get a grant to be used to restore, rebuild, or enhance places within the park where people can be active.

1st Place: $100,000 
2nd Place: $50,000
3rd Place: $25,000
Wild Card: $15,000

Follow this link to the leaderboard. 

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Here's how you can vote for Riverside Park:

To add 1 vote per day with your Facebook account:

To add 5 votes per day (requires smart phone):

To add 10 votes per day (with or without smartphone):
  • while logged into facebook, go to  https://www.mapmyfitness.com/ and click "Sign up with Facebook". Complete the registration process (skipping everything they ask, if you want).
  • Connect MapMyFitness with this link: https://parks.livepositively.com/parks/index.html#/connectMMF
  • Now just log a minimum of 20mins of activity each day via online or using the app you can get on your smart phone for 10 votes per day!
  •  p.s. you can log 20 minutes of activity for every day since June 6th and get votes for them! Plus June 8th was a double points day so you'll get 20 votes for that day.
Riverside Park has 2625 votes and third place holder Thompson Park in East Liverpool, Ohio has 6653 votes, which is so easy to beat! Second place holder Mason Neck State Park in Lorton, Virginia has 12683 votes and first place holder, Veterans Memorial Park in Moore, Oklahoma has 18157 votes.

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