Big fish on ice, for now
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December 21, 2016
ICED SALMON – This sort of looks like a giant version of the fish stand at Pike’s Market. But this is La Conner’s salmon slide after a recent snow. The Park Commission is in full swing gathering donated funds to have it kid-ready by spring. – Photo by Ollie Iversen
As the photo shows, our snowy Salmon Slide is resting for the winter.
Yet here is the good news: Conner Waterfront Park was started with a $50,000 matching grant from the Osberg Family Trust, which after some time fundraising, we were able to match.
Well, you know it must be the holidays, because Town Hall received a letter from the Osberg Trust offering a second matching grant — this time for $25,000 for all donations from Dec. 2 through all of 2017.
As you have seen, we started building the park last summer using available funds so we can have some portion of the park for everyone t...
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