News : Dedications for Bennett Fischer Pavillion, Community Youth Garden set for Aug. 3

Oak 7 AmeriCorps team members work on the Bennett Fischer Pavilion, which is to be dedicated Aug. 3.

When Lindsay Ward and her Oak 7 NCCC team wanted to hold a meeting to review their most recent project in North Dakota earlier this week, they went to a place that offered them enough space, peace and quiet and a beautiful scenery: The Bennett Fischer Pavilion along the Cedar River.

And Lindsay and her Oak 7 AmeriCorps members know better than anyone what a perfect place that pavilion.

That's because they built it.

On Tuesday, Aug. 3 — two days before Oak 7 members graduate from the AmeriCorps program — there will be a public celebration and dedication of the pavilion. Also on that is the dedication of the Community Youth Garden, which Oak 7 members also helped to create, working with the Benton County Extension and Vinton Parks and Recreation Department.

To see the Vinton Today story about Oak 7's work on the garden, click HERE.

To see the story about Oak 7's work on the Bennett Fischer Pavilion, click HERE

Below is the official announcement about the dedications of the pavilion and the Community Youth Garden;:

Vinton Green Space

Development Dedications

Ribbon Cuttings

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

5:00 p.m. Youth Community Gardens

6:00 p.m. Bennett Fischer Pavilion

Join us in the celebration of the completion of two new developments in the flooded

properties of 2008. The new facilities are located on East 2ndStreet in Vinton and will be a

great asset to our community for a long time.

Please refer all questions to the Vinton Parks & Recreation Department

at 319/472-4164. We hope to see you there!