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Exeter Lions support downtown parkette
Times -Advocate, February 11, 1998 Page 5
The parkette, which could be completed by summer, will host numerous community events
By Qgawtlall van Raay
T -A Reporter
/EXETER - .The 406 Main Street
project, which has been in dis-
cussion for a number of years is ft-
nailY becoming a reality. •
With financial aid from the Exet-
er Lions Club the help of spear -
.heading fundraisers, it is anticipated
that the parkette could finally he
completed by mid -summer.
"The Lions Club has endorsed.the
project and said yes to . it." -'ex-
plained beautification chair John
Wuerth, adding the Club -will match
funds from the . town• and the EBA
• of $30.000.
• The Lions CIuh will spearhead a
fundraising • campaign- in the local
- area for the purpose of raising funds
for the. project. 'Fundraising for the
project is expected. to begin this
spring. Lions members John- Ste-
phens. Ted Jones and Bill Carson
will lead the campaign..
"With the help of the citizen. of
• the community we. will sec this
dream become a reality ." said Ted
Jones:
EBA member Tom Scip. is op-
timistic the - community • can raise
• the funds needed to make the park a
- reality. .
"This is not a large sunt to he
raised by -a-town the -size of Exeter
for such a worthwhile project." he
said
Wuerth th agreed. . . better. .
"London is coming closer to us "The more money we raise, the
all the time. It's a great project'and .more intricate it can become," he
said.' •
The project is one the EBA beau-
tification committee has been
working on for the past three years.
They hope to start construction by
this spring so_ that. the parkette
I think we . need to he positive
about this.
"We're seenas an aggressive,'
on-going, forward -thinking -town.".
said Wuenh at the January busi-
ness meeting. "We're just scratch-
ing the surface," he said of the could be corn pleted by . . mid-
-parkette. • summer,
r witt-he-a-funetional-parkette The. Parket
meeting place and as a focal paint
for the. heap of the town. it will
hold :community events, such as
.music and drama . festivals while
maintaining parking spaces .; for
downtown.
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for downtown." he added. "'it will.
he a focal point where various or-
ganizations can perform."
While the parkette isn't the Cad-.
iliac project that was initially dis-
cussed. Wuenh said the mote mon--
cy fundraised for the -Project the
Plans for the parkette arc in its fi-
nal stages. Shrubbery will line the
arca. an open concept pavilion/
handshcll will host concerts and
plays and a walkway will trail from
one side of the parkettc.to the other.
According ti)- Exeter's building
official Dave Moyer, the parkette
will further enhance Exeter's park
system and. community. recently
recognised nationally through the
tr u4JJ ftinetinn ac a Communities in Bloom .competi-
tion..
""hie Exeter Beautification Com-
mittee. Council and the FBA were
thrilled to. welcome the lion. as a
partner in the project." Moyer said.
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unds
Raising funds. Carol MCNaIi, right, rang through the groceries for Shawna Soudant and her
daughter Presley at Seip's valu-mart Monday morning. Customers of Seip's valu-mart donat-
ed more than $1,000 to help victims of the ice storm. Seip's, matched the. donations dollar
for dollar; sending morethan $2.000 to the Red Cross for distribution.
Beautification Committee
already -busy for spring
New southend
entrance sign
on the agenda
By Chantal, Van Raay
T -A Reporter
-EXETER - While the. weather.
may cause you to think otherwise.
the EBA beautification committee_
is already thinking -about spring.
The baskets. barrels and flowers •
for Main Street were discussed at
the February business meeting.
Beatification chair John Weurth
said the number of barrels on Main
Street will. go up this year to 65
from 57 mainly because more har-
rels,will be put further north and in
front of the proposed parkette at
406 Main Street.
The barrels. baskets and flowers.
from Plant Paradise in .Exeter will
cost about 51(1.000 .to purchase.
maintain and del,ver.•said Weurth
- The money ' wilI come from heau-
tifieation funds
The proposed flowers and plants
to he used for 'Main Street this year
are impatiens of fuschia: pink and
red with spikes in the, centre. The
suggestion of using ivy and ge-
raniums was alst' discussed
- In other business
Also discussed at the meeting
was the option of either installing a
new south -end entrance sign or re-
vamping old -Christmas dccora-
--tions
Because Christmas decorations
are only up?for a short time. -11 was
expressed that a permanent wel-
come sign might he -more beneficial
to the town.
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