Photo Credit: Lester Public Library
The Lester Public Library in Two Rivers is putting a $50,000 grant from the West Foundation to good use.
Library Director Jeff Dawson said this week on WOMT’s Be My Guest program that the Imagining Grant will be used to develop a story walk for families and children at Zander Park.
The collaborative effort involved Terry Ehle, the library’s Youth Services Coordinator and Mike Mathis, the city’s Parks and Recreation Director.
Dawson explained it was determined that Zander Park “would be redeveloped and useful again.”
“It’s a marsh. There was a playset in the park, but due to water, they had to remove that playground,” Dawson noted. “Mike is going to build a boardwalk around that marshy area, and he brought in the Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve. Jim Nickeline is part of the grant, and he already is looking at purchasing seeds for native plants.”
Dawson said it “really embraces the marsh that is already there, rather than try to drain it or make it useful.”
He went on to explain, “Mike’s vision for play are logs and rocks. He is going to redevelop that park, and we have also brought in the Two Rivers School District. They make signs out of metal, and they are going to create our entrance signs.”
The library director termed it a wonderful collaborative project and the idea is to have a story walk around the boardwalk and the path.
Eventually, there will be two story walks, one at the library and the other at Zander Park.
They’re hoping to have both installed before the end of August.
