Scoreboards coming to Fandry Park through Girl Scout initiative

There’s a short window in someone’s life when magic is real, and to that end, local business is looking to help add some magic this summer.

Led by Reclaimed Tavern of North Broadway and its owner Tom Larson together with others, Stanley residents will be treat- ed to a fireworks celebration on July 2nd this year, Larson filling in the Stanley City Council on plans for the hopefully annual event.

“I’ve got 22 businesses involved,” Larson shared, with the American Legion, VFW, and Team USA involved as well. Larson said that he had “about $5,000” of the initial amount he was looking for, with more once the Council approved it. Among the businesses pledged in addition to Reclaimed Tavern were Christoph transport, Twilight Tavern, WhispyTKreations, DJ’s Mart, Courtesy Ford, Stanley Truck Sales, Ele’s Flowers, and Northwest Coin. Listed as willing to donate once the event had been approved were Broadway Boutique, Hansen’s IGA, and Mega Coop.

The fireworks display will be administered with electric igni tion by Shawn Moretti, a licensed and insured professional.

Larson said the fire department was on board and might show case one of its trucks.

Fire Chief Korey Hagenson, present at the meeting, said that while he didn't allow fireworks permits, something would be drawn up to allow for the July 2 show.

"I do not allow firework permits in the city, because it's one of our ordinances, so we’ll have to come up with something to sign, that he’ll have to sign and we’ll have to sign to say ‘hey, we’re giving permission for this night,” Hagenson said.

Larson said in turn that he hoped to make the event to be administered by a licensed and insured professional an annual occurrence and that the city’s recycling area would be a good place to set up.

“One place that would be easy to set up and keep away from everybody would be where the city burn pile is,” Larson said. Volunteers would patrol the area to ensure that nobody wandered into the lighting area. Laurie Foster asked if the event might star- tle the elk. Nothing worse than when fireworks were at the foot –

ball field, she was told.

With a motion by Mark Fitzsimmons to approve that was sec- onded by Jacob Huu, Stanley area residents can look forward to fireworks this summer down at Chapman Park.

Meanwhile and at the same time new scoreboards could be coming to Fandry Park soon, thanks to a separate initiative by Girl Scout Troop 3241, looking to earn their silver award. The Silver Award is one of the highest awards that Girl Scouts can earn and able to be earned by scouts in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades who are registered cadettes and have completed a Cadette

Reclaimed Tavern at Council with the support of local businesses. The professional fireworks show will be done by Shawn Moretti, letting the community sit back and enjoy the lights. Photo by Joseph Back. INITIATIVES

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journey.

Appearing before the council April 17, members of Troop 3241 pitched the idea of putting up scoreboards for the ball fields at Fandry Park, with diuerent options depending on how the fundraising works out.

“It depends on how much money we raise, but we were looking to put scoreboards on both the baseball and softball fields," scout Caroline Johnson said of the plan the troop had consulted with groundskeepers on.

The two options to choose from are a flip chart scoreboard and a battery-operated one.

The flipchart option would be placed at the

dugouts, while a battery-powered one would type” was approximately $6,000.

"We're hoping to find some local business donations…and then based on what we raise, that’s what we would have,” Johnson said of finding funding for the plan.

The Council gave its blessing to the idea to be funded with non-tax dollars, motion being made by Ward 2 alderman Kevin Hendrickson and seconded by Laurie Foster.

the members of Troop 3241 have teamed up to fundraise for scoreboards at Fandry park. From left are Jennifer Boyea, Caroline Johnson, Olivia Bourget, Mackenize Carmeans, and Lizzy Shaw. Photo by Tanyea Carmeans.be placed in the outfield, it was made known. “We consulted with the groundkeeper Mr. Lew and the former groundskeeper Mr. Lingen, and they both agreed those were the best places to put them,” Johnson said of the scoreboard placement. Based on quotes the troop had obtained a digital scoreboard was said tocost approximately $7,000, while “a diuerent