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Community Corner

TO: Irmo Town Council

Dear Irmo Town Councilmembers,
Please consider the following before your vote on Tuesday:
When talk first began of building our park, "it was going to be for the community".  A place for a festival, a place of  gathering for community events, picnic shelters for family reunions and civic groups, playgrounds for children, amphitheater for bands and dancing, walking trails for exercise, recreational sports, etc.  A place for the "living"!  A park full of activity, a park inhabited with life!  

Our new park is being developed for today, for the living, for the people who will embrace and enjoy the beauty of this park in the future.    

Please don't label this life-giving piece of property with "memorial"... a place to remember what is past, gone, dead.   

I ask you all to give it a name with life!! A name that encompasses the substance of the park. A name that draws people to visit and partake in the essence of the park's purpose...alive with activity.          

Sincerely,
Eileen King
Irmo Town Resident

p.s.  It was mentioned at one time the park was gonna be the "jewel" of Irmo.  I liked that :)  How can you describe that in a name?  Why will our park standout from others?  What word would draw people to our park? 

Memorials: Don't get off track of what was originally intended for this park.  This park was initially about creating a place of community, a place of activity for now and the future.  Please don't label this park with a banner of the past.      

Something to consider:  Council should create a plan and guidelines for incorporating memorials into the park in a later phase.  One way of  sharing history with the folks that visit the park could be markers/plaques placed along the walking trail with tidbits of info about Irmo's history/people/timeline/events.   An educational trail for visitors :)   This could even be a possible fund raiser where people buy a history plaque, AND they can have "donated by so and so" engraved on it.

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