A meeting will take place at 7PM at the home of Tom and Denise O'Hale, 620 W. Gartner in Hobson West. The purpose will be to plan strategies for saving open space in Naperville, including ways to make the Park at the Ponds of Hobson West a reality, and to prevent the loss of open space at the Community Garden Plots. A professional survey to indi...

All members, gardeners, and friends of the Coalition are invited to spend part of a beautiful spring Saturday morning at Naperville’s Community Garden Plots. We will meet at our “Plant a Row for the Hungry” collection booth (easy to spot from West St.) at 9AM for coffee, light refres...

The regularly scheduled spring WSGPC Board of Directors meeting will take place Wednesday April 23rd, 7:30-9PM at Naperville Township’s Administrative Offices (135 Water St.) The meeting is conducted by the Board, but open to all members and interested individuals. In addition to discussing prog...

Please examine the rest of this website to find out why the Hobson West Ponds are so important to the Naperville community.

On Feb. 26, the Park District participated in a community forum regarding the Caroline Martin-Mitchell properties. The City of Naperville coordinated the public meeting to begin gathering public feedback regarding current and proposed uses of the properties. The Park District is explo...

In a nutshell we (the SOS - Save Open Space group) have learned a lot while trying to get the property between the ponds kept as open space. We heard from a number of people about their concerns for open space, not wanting to see all of the odd lots here & there being paved over, turned into strip malls, or turned into high rises, or townho...

A Naperville resident is offering to personally help finance purchasing the land between the ponds of Hobson West. Paula Dulli, who lives in the neighborhood, has told elected officials that if the city would loan the park district the $1.6 million it is short to purchase the six acres, she would pay the interes...

The Coalition holds four regular meetings each year that are open to the public, with Board Members allowed to vote on action items. Board members are elected in April of all odd numbered years to serve single two year terms. To find out more information click the appropiate icon on top of our homepage.

At the Park District's November board meeting, after a more than two hour Executive Session, news that the district was in negotiations with Crestview Builders to purchase the land between the Hobson West Ponds was greeted with polite applause and cautious optimism. Late that evening President Kristen Jungles publicly revealed that the p...

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