The positivity rates posted this weekend (Pinellas) are making it increasingly harder to bring people together indoors. If the recent data is any indicator the spike will be the middle of January and although the symptoms don’t appear to be as bad - there is still some risk involved with exposure to omicron. It is because of this that the board has made the decision to have a virtual annual meeting. We are hoping you will choose to attend. The 2022 goal of the board to help find some ways to recognize Williams Park as a community resource remains strong. We plan to continue with the February 9th meeting in person at the cathedral. That evening we will come together to collect some ideas of ways to reactivate the park as a community resource. We want to work with the city and area partners to utilize grant funding toward that goal. Hope to see you next Wednesday at 7:00pm to meet the 2022 board, catch up with council chair Gina Driscoll and hear the park kick off presentation.

A Zoom link will be sent to all registered by the morning of the meeting. 

Thanks for your support and understanding, Karen Carmichael President

Annual Meeting

Meet the 2022 Board Members

Opening Remarks and Introduction: City Council Chair, Gina Driscoll

Spotlight Presentation 

Jon Wilson presents: The History of Williams Park 

​A native of Scottsbluff, NE., Jon Wilson moved to St. Petersburg with his family in 1956. He attended local schools. He was a reporter and editor for the St. Petersburg Evening Independent and the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) for 37 years, retiring in 2007. He then was a communications consultant for the Florida Humanities Council until 2018. Wilson is co-author of St. Petersburg’s Historic 22^nd Street South and St. Petersburg’s African-AmericanNeighborhoods; he is the author of The Golden Era in St. Petersburg: Postwar Prosperity in the Sunshine City, and one novel, Bridger’s Run, which was published by Pineapple Press.  He is vice president of the St. Petersburg African American Heritage Association. He and his wife Becky have three children and six grandchildren.  

New board bios attached

1.2022 Annual Agenda.pdf