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As a long time neighbor of Rainbow Park, I would like to take a moment to thank Steve Swigert for his ability to get things done.

It has been years since proper maintenance was administered to the little channel-side facility and its time was due. My parents purchased neighboring lots in 1969 (the same year I was born) and had completed their vision of a home five years later. As a child of theirs I frequented the park regularly and over the years I saw the little scrubby pines grow to be big scrubby dead and dying pines. They were a nice touch in the sixties, but had become an eyesore and...