¡Viva Salem! Hispanic Festival

  • Date: 09/28/2024 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
  • Location: Riverfront Park
    200 Water St NE
    Salem, Oregon 97301
  • Introduction: ¡Viva Salem! Todos Unidos, is a community-sponsored event centering on Hispanic performers and vendors. Festival will feature performers suitable for all ages. It will be presented totally free to the public.

Help celebrate Salem's Hispanic culture at the 2nd annual ¡Viva Salem! Todos Unidos (All United) festival planned for Saturday, September 28, 2024, at Riverfront Park during Hispanic Heritage Month!

Enjoy live music, performances, artists, and vendors of food and crafts and help make ¡Viva Salem! an event to enjoy and remember. The event is intended to bring together our entire community to celebrate this beautiful part of our Salem. It will lay a strong foundation for future events celebrating the diversity that is one of Salem’s important building blocks. 

It is our goal to amplify the contributions of our Hispanic community members, partners and businesses. 

¡Viva Salem! Todos Unidos is free and open to all ages. Fun family activities and resource booths will also be available for free all day thanks to our amazing sponsors.

Visit www.cityofsalem.net/vivasalem for more information and required permits or if you are interested in being a partner.

Questions, contact Irma Coleman at icoleman@cityofsalem.net or call 503-540-2303. Se habla español. 

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Park Partners

Park Partner tasks vary greatly and do not require any special skills or abilities—just people caring about our City parks.

Volunteer opportunities include:

  • Picking up litter
  • Planning a park volunteer event
  • Doing playground maintenance checks,
  • Cleaning picnic tables
  • Sweeping hard surfaces
  • Clearing tree circles
  • Raking leaves
  • Weeding
  • Doing trail maintenance
  • Filling mutt mitt dispensers
  • Being the eyes and ears for parks operations staff by reporting any problems

There is flexibility in the amount of time that Park Partner volunteers commit.

Gardening

Beginners and experienced gardeners learn about plants and have fun while weeding, digging, planting, and pruning with other volunteers.

  • Deepwood Gardeners meet Thursday mornings at the Historic Deepwood Estate.
  • Mission Street Parks Conservancy meet Tuesday mornings at the gardens in Bush’s Pasture Park.
  • Lord & Schryver Gardeners meet Thursday mornings.

Deadhead Rose Bushes

Volunteer to keep the rose beds at Bush's Pasture Park looking neat and blooming by deadheading a bed or two from June until early October.

Deadheading removes faded flowers which keeps a neat appearance and promotes re-blooming by preventing seed production. The parks horticulturist hosts a rose pruning workshop annually in February.

Individuals, couples, families, and friends are encouraged to volunteer. You may want to adopt two or three beds, or may choose to care for more. You will receive an initial lesson in deadheading and then care for adopted beds weekly, at your leisure.

Pioneer Cemetery

Learn about the history of our community and spend some productive hours in pleasant company outdoors at Pioneer Cemetery.

Tasks include:

  • Pruning
  • General cleanup
  • Headstone straightening
  • Plot grooming
  • Moss removal
  • Pulling vines

Gloves and tools are provided. Work parties start at 9 a.m. and finish at noon or in the early afternoon. Work parties are usually scheduled for the second Saturday of the month, the following Monday, and the last Monday of the month during April through October. No work sessions are held on Memorial Day, but volunteers are always needed to run the visitor information station during the holiday weekend from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

New volunteers and organized groups should contact the volunteer coordinator to sign up before joining a scheduled work party. Returning volunteers can simply sign the log sheet each day they participate.