Get Involved in Clinton's Future

I've been a member of the Friends of the Library board since I moved to town, owing to the fact that our family are big library patrons and my last job was in library IT management. Anyhow, due to an aging board staff we are down two members and one of them is the President. So, meet the President Pro-Tem.

If anyone has any interest in doing some cool community involvement stuff and incidentally affecting the new library planning process, drop me an e-mail (via the main website. In the meantime, even more stuff to suck up my time. It's not that bad, really.

Not nearly as bad as Great Places which is now kicking into a higher gear of state (read bureaucratic) involvement and planning. It's cool to see things moving forward, though. I have to put together a steering committee for the South Bridge Project.

The South Bridge Project is a portion of the Great Places initiative that encompasses the following areas.

• 'Welcome to Clinton' on the Iowa side of the North and South Bridges. (The South Bridge will soon be closed for nearly a year for repairs and painting, BTW.)


• A combined exercise and public art park in the general area currently occupied by the Wiersema scrapyard located directly behind the Armstrong Building --conveniently located one block from the Library.


• Trailhead for extension of the current bike/hiking path south from it's current terminus at the South Bridge, west through Clinton roughly along 9th Ave S and then south to Camanche.

It is the park portion that will be the biggest challenge. Federal and State money is already mostly set-aside for the other parts of the project. If anyone is interested in building a really neat new public space dedicated to fitness and public art, give me a holler.