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CITY OF ORONO '
PARK COI�'iISSION
Park Commission meeting of July 11 , 1 978.
Attending were, Lee Tomlinson, Les Kelly, Peggy Watson, Barbara Peterson and
Lee Erger. Absent : Walt Lathrop, and Roland Berglund.
The Park Commission conducted this meeting while on a tour of the various park
properties in tne city. Below are general comments from coirmiission members re-
garding each property.
1 . Orono/Lon� Lake Beach. (Dayton Property) The area seems large enough
f or a T-Ball or Little League Field if parking areas are properly arr-
anged. Sorie of the Beauti£ul old trees on the groperty must be saved.
A line of guard-rail posts and a lockable gate must be installed to
p revent all night parking. The beach is beautiful, hard sand out to
about 1�.0 ' or 50 ' from snore, according to the current tenant, and the
water is qu_te clear. No serious flooding problems wsrH evident, in
spite of a heavy rain about !.� days earlier.
2. Hackberr,y Park: Newly transplanted trees are a definite asset to the
park, grass is coming along well. �is particular park, with the
baseball diamond, is in use constantly, and will be used for soccer
thi s fall.
3. Bederwood Park: (Stubbs Bay) Area looks large enough for two ball
fields, one of which should be large enough for Babe Ruth League
Teams. In case only one field can be build, it should be Babe Ruth
League size. Woods on Northwest corner should be fixed up as picnic
area. Relatively level area along Stubb � s Bay road should be desi-
gnated for tennis courts. Some considerations, and cost estimates,
should be made for providing restrooms on this site, large well exists
on property already.
1.�. Hi�hwood Lake Access : We walked up and down this access and talked
with a local citizen about it. The access is quite steep, with mature
trees all along its length. IInderbrush has over grown most of the
access. Any type of beautification or permanent landscaping would
be very expensive and would require timber and/or rock structures
to prevent erosion. (the access is a storm water run off for the
area. ) General cleanup of the access is reco�nended, removin.g var-
ious weeds and trash and a junk car that is at the top of the access.
5. Sand,y Beach: (closed at the time of our tour due to extremely high
water floating away the dock sections. ) Area seemed quite clean,
and cared for. Sod on new landscape berm is too dry.
5. Antoine Park: (Fagerness Point) Playground equipment is installed
and in use. Mowing was apparently late, cuttings looked like a hay
crop.
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The minutes of the June meet�ng of the MINUTES '
commission were approved.
Meeting waa adjourned. ADJOU�NMENT j
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Resp ct" y s�bmitted,
Lee E. omlinson
Chairman
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