THE LIONS ROAR REINCARNATED

Edited by Mark Ripplinger

Photos by Don Wood & Mark Ripplinger

February 18, 2008
 
Lions President Mark Miller

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (February 18th)

 

Fellow Lions, I would like to thank our fellow Lions for filling in for me this past week as we received some good publicity on our CF Bucket Project.  I think Tom has been about everywhere trying to promote what we do.  We have speakers lined up for the next month, if you have any ideas on a good speaker please pass them along and I will contact them.

 

We Serve ……… Mark Miller

 

 

TODAY’S MEETING (February 18th)

 

Today’s speaker will be Sue Gettman and students from Cedar Falls High School. They will provide a presentation regarding the buckets recently provided to them.

 

 

COMING ATTRACTIONS

 

February 25 … Callie Weiss, Senior at Cedar Falls High School, will talk about her start as a professional singer.

March 3 … Cedar Valley Hospice will present information to the Club.

March 10 … Uyntha Duncan will speak to the club about the Don Duncan Memorial Golf Tournament

March 17 … Ron Donald, Lions Foundation, and his wife, who is the Vision Screening coordinator, will speak to the Club.

 

 

BIRTHDAYS                             ANNIVERSARIES

 

Dan Conrad – Feb. 20th            None

Karen Page – Feb. 24th

                                                  

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

None

 

 

LAST MEETING (February 11th)

 

David Sturch, City of Cedar Falls Planner, spoke to the club about the upcoming construction that will take place on College Hill this year. The scope of the project includes below and above ground improvements on College Street from 20th to 23rd Streets. The initial phase of the project was to replace the culvert just south of 20th street. This project took a good portion of the summer and required that an apartment building be removed because the building had constructed their footings on the old culvert structure. The new culvert will have a top that will extend further to the east than the previous structure and will be used as a “pocket park” or a gathering place for pedestrians. Improvements that will take place this summer include additional underground work to the south and the installation of a storm water filtration system that will function to remove initial particulate matter from the storm sewer system so that it does not find its way into the waterways. When the underground work is underway on the extreme southern portion of college street, a contractor will begin installing at grade improvements which will include decorative brick and concrete, street trees, benches, signage and locations for future artwork. There may be additional areas for plant material other than trees, but an agreement has yet to be reached with the College Hill Neighborhood Association or the Merchants to maintain the plantings. The City will continue to work with them to identify and define maintenance responsibilities, similar to what takes place on the Parkade. The City of Cedar Falls will also work with the merchants to provide pedestrian access through the rear of their businesses during the time when the sidewalk will be under construction. Again, very similar to the accommodations that took place on the Parkade during that streetscape project.

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