PLAY BALL!
NO
PLAY
LITTLE
BEAR!

HUNDREDS...ALL AGES...ATTENDED THE DEDICATION AND GRAND OPENING
OF MAQUOKETA'S NEW   "LITTLE BEAR PARK"   SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

AFTER THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BY MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL SINGERS, PASTOR JEFF DADISMAN OF THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH GAVE THE INVOCATION.

DR. KIM HUCKSTADT, SUPT. OF SCHOOLS, WAS THE EMCEE.    THE PARK
(LOCATED NEXT TO BRIGGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL) WAS A JOINT PROJECT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CITY.       EACH GAVE  $125,000 TO IT.

MAYOR DON SCHWENKER THANKED EVERYONE AND EXPRESSED THE POINT THAT MAQUOKETA CITIZENS AGAIN HAVE COME THROUGH WITH A BIG,
IMPORTANT PROJECT.

REPRESENTING THE SCHOOL BOARD, BOARD MEMBER DEB LANE ALSO THANKED THE MANY, MANY VOLUNTEERS.

DR.  HUCKSTADT THEN GAVE SOME FACTS.    THE PARK  (WHICH REPLACED THE ORIGINAL PARK THAT WAS OVER 20 YEARS OLD AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE NEW ONE)  IS ABOUT 10,000 SQUARE FEET IN SIZE.
OVER 600 VOLUNTEERS HELPED  BUILD IT IN SEPTEMBER, PUTTING IN AROUND 60,000 HOURS.   THE PARK COST $355,000.     ABOUT $25,000 STILL NEEDS
TO BE RAISED.   THE PERSON OR COMPANY THAT CONTRIBUTED $5,000
WAS RECOGNIZED.

THE PAPA BEARS AND THE MAMA BEARS GATHERED FOR A PHOTO.
THEY WERE EITHER ON THE COMMITTEE OR TEAM CAPTAINS (FOREMEN) DURING CONSTRUCTION.

THREE KIDS (FROM BRIGGS ELEMENTARY, CARDINAL ELEMENTARY
AND SACRED HEART SCHOOL) WERE PICKED EARLIER TO CUT THE RED RIBBON.      CODY HAAN, SACRED HEART....ADELYN MARKIN, CARDINAL, AND ALEX THOMAS, BRIGGS.

AFTER THE RIBBON WAS CUT, KIDS AND ADULTS FILED IN UNDER THE WELCOME SIGN.

ONE PHOTO OF THE PARK INSIDE.

ANOTHER LOOK.     I'LL HAVE MORE PHOTOS SOON.


MAQUOKETA...

"THE ONE-OF-A-KIND" NAME AND CITY...

NOW AGAIN  HAS...

A ONE-OF-A-KIND PARK!


DENNIS VOY