More work to be done to west end play park
Children playing in the new Palmer-Stone Park at the west end of Rosthern.
By Rod Andrews
A little more work remains to be done to finish the new play park that has been built on municipal reserve land located at 5th Street and 10th Avenue in Rosthern.
The playground is for children up to the age of five years. The main playground structure has been erected and is being used by children in the area.
Additional pieces are to be added, as well as a picnic table and a sign to identify the park.
Money for the playground equipment was raised by the Ladies Night Out committee earlier this year.
Nicole Lerat, a Ladies Night Out committee member, said money raised this year and last year went to the project and donations will be made to other projects in the community.
Lerat said around $13,000 was spent on the playground.
She said in the future the group will make a donation to the Rosthern Library roofing project and for a special Community Multipurpose Centre purchase.
At the request of the Ladies Night Out committee, Rosthern Town Council has formally named the playground as the Palmer-Stone Park.
The park was named in honour of J.T. Palmer and Dayton Stone, two youngsters who died early in their young lives, but managed to have an impact on the community before they passed on.
In a letter to council, Ladies Night Out committee member Rhonda Bell said their “lives made an impact on many people in the Rosthern community” and the dedication would be “a wonderful way of keeping these boys’ memory alive and support our mission in working towards improving the lives of children in our community”.
James Tanek Palmer passed away in February 2008, at the age of four years and almost three months, due to complications from an operation to remove a brain tumour and is missed by a very large family who cared deeply for him.
Dayton Stone, who passed away on April 23, 2009, was 26 days of age and had a number of medical complications in his life, but he was loved by a large family as well.
