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Knox City Park Crews Stay Busy in October
Clarence Marshall and George Byer
Just because it’s October doesn’t mean the Knox City Park crew is idle. Park Superintendent, George Byer, and his assistant, Clarence Marshall, have been working on playground equipment. Maybe your children would enjoy the refurbished spring loaded animal ride on the east side of the park. It’s been refurbished to make it ADA acceptable. One piece of equipment, the handle bars, had to be custom made.
“Jason Bridegroom came forward and he found some out of the Indianapolis area and bought them,” said Byer. “We welded them and they slid on the handles and they look great.”
The piece of equipment is 35 years old and is cast iron. If you purchased a piece of that equipment today it would be out of the park board’s budget.
Another piece of equipment their working on now is the old train. When it’s finished, children will be able to pretend they’re train engineers.
“The front end of it fell off and it was upside down. We decided to try to make a locomotive engine out of it. Also, we came up with a top for it. Now, we’re trying to make a pair of seats so kids can climb in there and sit on a seat and drive a train down the road.”
If you have a picture of your child from by-gone days, George and his staff would like to see it to be able to bring the train engine back to the original state. If you have a picture drop it off at the WKVI studios and we’ll see that George gets it.
October 14th, 2011 at 8:54 am
It would be nice to see our park get a splash pad in the summer. Many parks are adding them, and we always have to drive out of town to go to one on a hot day.
October 14th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Doin agreat job fell’s. As prior comment mentioned. a splash pad would be awesome! We might not have our pool YET, but a splash pad for all the younger kids, heck, even I get in with the kids, and are alotta fun. Good luck, ponder it over & who knows, maybe by Spring we can make it happen. But the park looked great all year, & an awesome job during the youth baseball/softball seasons.
October 14th, 2011 at 11:17 am
Thank you George and Clarence for your caring fine service to the community. And thank you to Jason Bridegroom for your welding skills and using your skills for your community service. Way to go guys !!!!!!! God Bless Starke Co.
October 14th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
i also want to say thank you for keeping up the park,, they swing was also redone now we can sit on it and not worry if were going to get splinters,, great job guys on it and everything else doing a great job….