This is the 69th event held by the AYLUS Gardens Branch. On Saturday, May 4, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Gardens went to the Meditation Garden in Kissena Corridor Park to weed the garden beds, mulch, and cut down invasive trees that had taken up residence there. The day was quite sunny with warm sun rays and […]

Members participating in AYLUS Oakland Gardens’ 68th event on April 27th, 2024 helped clean up Little Bay Park. Located next to Throgs Neck Bridge, this park’s luscious green grass, soft spring breeze, and calm waters made it seem as if it was idyllic. However, upon further examination, trash was everywhere; bottle caps, food wrappers, and […]

This is the 67th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens. On Thursday, April 25, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Gardens went to Powell’s Cove Park to learn about poetry around the campfire. The day was really nice and warm with only fluffy and wispy clouds in the air. There were two areas, one was the campfire area, […]

On April 24th, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Gardens held its 66th event at Fort Totten Park. During this event, our volunteers took time to watch three puppet shows hosted by our Urban Park Rangers: Morgan, Eric, Adam, AJ, Michelle, and Joe. The audience was able to witness engaging stories while learning about nature. At the start […]

On April 20th, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Gardens held its 65th event, an Earth Day celebration at Cunningham Park. During this event, our volunteers cleaned up trash and hiked along Cunningham Park’s white trail in order to learn about the local wildlife. Despite the rain and cold weather, 50 volunteers showed up to the event in […]

The Earth Month event is the 64th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens on April 14th 2024. The event was held at the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy, where we worked with Maureen to do something for Earth Month. Our group worked hard to move fresh soil and mulch into the conservancy to […]

This is the 63rd event hosted by AYLUS Oakland Gardens on April 9, 2024 in Oakland Gardens Playground. We had fun watching the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, however, after the eclipse we had no use left for the glasses we had used to watch the eclipse with.  Our parent advisor figured out we […]

Marking the beginning of Earth Month, 72 members teamed up to participate in AYLUS Oakland Gardens’ 62nd event on April 7, 2024. Using trash pickers and trash bags provided to us by Park Rangers Starlight,  Lazere, Micheal Devito and Salvatore Asaro, we worked hard to clean up Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the neighboring Meadow […]

Branch Active Members Jia Qi Liu (Angela) Vicki Lin Anthony Lin Iokseng Lin Brandon Lin Matthew Lin Sophia ShiHan You Hong Hao Liu (Alfred) Aiden Lin Stephanie ShiRan You Ioklee Lin Ioknor Lin Evaline Yuel Iokting Lin Ryan Wu Austin Yuel Hannah Zheng Zhengyilan Fang (Elaine) Ricky Song Emily Zheng Erica Li Colleen Chen Nina […]

This is the 61th event hosted by AYLUS Oakland Gardens, held on March 31, 2024. Our members partnered with the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy for an Easter clean-up event. This site is a historic cemetery, overseen by Maureen Regan, Ada, and other park workers of the conservancy. Maureen, an advocate who preserved […]

The 60th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens was on Saturday, March 30th, 2024, from 12 pm to 2 pm. Volunteers from the Oakland Garden Branch went to Park of the Americas, where they were in encourage to participate in the free archery lesson by our Queens Urban Park Rangers. The day was quite windy […]

On March 29th, 2024, members of AYLUS (Alliance of Youth Leaders in the United States) Oakland Gardens Branch donated books to two public libraries in Queens. This is our 59th event so far held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens Branch. The names of the two public libraries that we donated our books to are “Queens Public […]

This is the 58th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens. On Friday, March 29, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Gardens members went to their local Post Office to mail the books to NSubponda TI Primary & Community in Ghana, Africa. Even though it was spring, the day was still cold and windy, but our members were still […]

On Sunday, March 24, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Gardens members partnered up with Friends of Francis Lewis Park to help host a Community Egg Hunt at Francis Lewis Park. This was the 57th event held by the AYLUS Oakland Gardens branch. Our members were hiding the eggs for the kids to find and were doing free […]

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Garden members went to MS 74 to pick up the books. This is the 56th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens branch. It was our last time going to MS 74, as we collected all the books we needed. As some of our members were MS 74’s students, […]

On Tuesday March 19, 2024 our team received another special balloon making event. The entire event lasted an hour. This is the 55th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens. We made balloons for our goal of making a library for Africa along with an extra 500 dollars for the supplies and the shipping cost. Every […]

This is the 54th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens on Saturday, March 16th, 2024. AYLUS Oakland Gardens went to Crocheron Park to finish what we didn’t finish last time. However, Dana was only here to help us set up, as he went to Central Park to participate in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Thank […]

This is the 53rd event held by Oakland Gardens on March 14, 2024. The weather today is very warm because winter is finally over and spring has arrived. Today is the parent teacher conference for middle school students, so they finished school early. The members arrived early in the park next to the elementary school […]

This is the 52nd event held by Oakland Gardens on March 13, 2024. The members of AYLUS Oakland Gardens Branch made balloons for the second day fundraiser to support our African Library Project. We have to cover the delivery fee and shipping costs for this project. Since tomorrow is a half day for middle school […]