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Page 20 FROST ILLUSTRATED.July 29-August 5,1998Lakeside Park gets uplift after series of complaints(UPLIFT continued from page 1) years ago, he said, but now the only problem is the stagnant water at the west end of the pond.They had a lot of complaints about the lily pool particularly, Walter said, and it had been a mess, filled with mud and trash they’d had to clean out by hand. And it still wasn’t the way it should be, he said, pointing to the crumbled concrete and the gouge in the concrete where the lion’s head fountain used to play water into the pool day and night.They had to fill the pools now by hose, he said, and that took too much time. It would be good to get the fountain going again. “But,” he said, “we probably couldn’t do that anymore—just run water out theCONTINUEDoverflow into the lake...” To get the fountain going again was a goal, he said, but it would be expensive. “We’d have to recirculate it, out the fountain, through the pools, and back.”Walter, and head gardener Bruce Henschen, too, would like to upgrade the irrigation system and put in place modem “drip” pipes for the roses, so they could be watered precisely as needed.It had taken a long time, Walter said, but they finally got Lakeside targeted in the bond issues to receive some money, and last summer they were able to rebuild the pergolas andOUR BIGGEST BACK TO SCHOOLSALE EVER IS GOING ON NOWNow til August 1. Deferred Billing when you use your Value City Credit Cardlt;4do other vital repairs. They needed more money, and more interest, he said, but both were hard to come by in Fort Wayne, at least for gardens.Still, some people noticed. As the repairs were made, people who had previously called to complain began to call to praise. Walter said he passed that praise on to the gardeners, who previously had felt abandoned by the city, and they began to work even harder, which led to still more praise.It’s the people,” Walter said, summing up his explanation for the park’s restored beauty. He pointed at Henschen, tending to the pools, and the four other workers, all on their hands and knees in the roses, weeding foot by foot.Two of those workers, college students Tracy Bartholomew (IPFW) and Sarah Riordan (IU), had paused earlier in their weeding long enough to agree happily that theirs was a great summer job, because the park was so pretty and the other workers were pleasant. The gardens, they said, were i really nice.| “We could do more,” Walter said, but the parks don’t have organized backers, like the baseball fields do. If we tried to take out a baseball diamond, those leagues wouldn’t let it happen, but no one seems to stick up for the gardens....44
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Fort Wayne Frost Illustrated
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 29, 1998
Page 10
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