Some positive suggestions for park’s boulders

By Dave Higgs, Dixon

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The Dixon Park District’s large boulders look like something out of the Dark Ages when they built huge forts and huge walls to keep the Huns out and the kings and queens safe. It was the age when the serfs were not allowed to walk on the queen’s green.

Negative.

As I entered church the other morning, I noticed a large parking lot (with no curbs), benches to sit on, a playground, a shelter, a gazebo, flowers and statues ... a very welcome look – like “Come in. Glad to see you.”

Positive.

Let us pray that the negative attitude of our park board will learn to serve God and God’s children.

Now here are some positive suggestions.

School board – remove 10 feet of grass in front of the high school on the north side of the street. That would allow diagonal parking from the east end of the auditorium to the football field on the west end.

Park board – take your boulders and stack two high along the river where it floods. Take the dirt from in front of the school and back fill the boulder levee to within 4 feet of the road.

Trees are always coming down and are cut into small pieces. What if the park board bought a buzz saw and cut trees into big timbers? These timbers would be a cheaper curb placed 4 feet from the road to allow parallel parking.

Timbers can be cut in various sizes to build wildflower beds, picnic tables, a platform for the bridge across the river, shelters, swings, slides, a couple of walking bridges across Plum Creek to allow more parking on the west side of the creek for the ball diamonds, handicapped fishing docks along the river, and benches to sit on. The trees are free, and this would get more use from them rather than for firewood.

Who knows? If you have some boulders left over, build some fireplaces. That would save the curb money for something more positive.