City of Ames, IA Ames Parks and Recreation, 2 Jun 2019

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From YouTube: Roosevelt Park Ping Pong Tables Ribbon Cutting

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On Sunday, June 2, 2019 there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony for new ping pong tables installed at Roosevelt Park and donated by Ames resident Steve Fisher. Roosevelt Park is located at the corner of Ninth Street and Roosevelt Avenue.

Mayor John Haila, Ames City Council, the Ames Parks and Recreation Commission, and Friends of Roosevelt Park cut the ribbon officially opening the ping pong tables for play.

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First off I'd like to welcome everybody: my name is Keith Abraham, a Parks and Recreation Director with the city of Ames and I'll, be introducing a few people here in just a minute, but just in regards to the park parks been open about three and a half years, and it really has been a great relationship even before the park started or was open.

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The Friends group, which Stacy and Annika I told them after spending about a year more with them, I went into withdrawal by for the first six months, because I didn't think I see them as much. But but it's really been a great partnership. They've raised a number of dollars funding for the park. We worked with the Roosevelt to really kind of make a seamless you know park here. So just a lot of good thing. That's been a great relationship. I, don't know.

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If everybody knows this, the Friends group did raise about $50,000 all roughly to help enhance the park and they continue to do it in these ping-pong tables. There's another example of things that Josh was gonna, say a little bit more a little bit later on, but right now, I'd like to do is introduce Mayor, John, hayla and the mayor's gonna come up and just say a couple of words.

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Let's be quite a weekend in here names I yesterday around at the 88, the first time ever.

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Volunteers and people like you.

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Just pleased to be here tonight to be Marta, the.

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Work that the mayor does in City, Council, Parks and Recreation Commission. We do have one council member here, I.

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Did not see any of our Commission members here, otherwise I would introduce them as well, but the next person will renew is have Joshua Thompson who's, our parks and facilities, superintendent.

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Good evening might keep that said: I'm Joshua, Thompson oversee all the parks for the city of Ames I, so I. Thank you all for coming out again when we designed this Park this area right here. We didn't necessarily know what we're gonna do. We could put a basketball court in here. We could do potentially bocce ball or a corn bag. So we everything there's a lot of different ideas that came out, though there's one person said why not ping pong table see we're like okay yeah we did when we did a vote.

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There was one person that voted for ping, pong tables and I look back in that diet and then look at today and how how supported it is how great it is. So I want to thank Steve, Fisher, Steve Fisher donated the money to get this project started and I want to thank you. Steve and his family also a supper just getting this getting this rolling and and hitting this really off the ground and look at today. It's really neat so, and the next thing is you guys you guys made this all happen.

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So, even though one person donated it all started from you, so thank you so much give yourselves a hand for that.

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We have neighborhood meetings, there's one part, one friends, group in town that gets always brought up as kind of sets the standard and that's Friends of Roosevelt Park. So thank you, Stacey and Annika for leading that charge.

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Nicely, if you don't live in this neighborhood- and you see man I would love to do this. For my neighborhood, the city of Ames has a program called the neighborhood improvement grant program. Part of this funds for these tables came from that program. So, if you want to, if you have something that you want to see improve in your neighborhood, come see me come docile to the website. There's information on there, the city of Ames, City Council, has designated funds to help. You improve your neighborhood, so look into that.

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If you know people that are going to give you a sort of things, tell them about that for them. So anyway, thank you all for coming tonight and enjoy these tables for a very, very long time. Thank you.

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This whole thing.

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We're going to do the crowds going to help us because you've always been a huge part of this. We're gonna count down from five I'm gonna. Guess the one then we'll. Let them cut the ribbon all right here we go.