Genoa Ribbon Cutting at McNamara Park

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Last Tues­day (August 7) evening was National Night Out, a nation­wide event designed to heighten crime pre­ven­tion aware­ness, while strength­en­ing neigh­bor­hood spirit and community-policing partnerships.

Dur­ing Genoa Township’s National Night Out cel­e­bra­tion, the Genoa trustees held a brief ribbon-cutting cer­e­mony that offi­cially opens McNa­mara Park fol­low­ing a major upgrade.

The park upgrade includes expanded park­ing (over 250 spaces), a 15-acre addi­tion, three fit­ness sta­tions, an addi­tional 1.5 miles in trails and a new entrance on South Old 3C Highway.

“We’re very pleased the res­i­dents sup­port parks in our town­ship,” said trustee Karl Geb­hardt. “This work was done dur­ing one of the wettest springs in Ohio his­tory, and it’s ironic that now we’re in the mid­dle of a drought; but we appre­ci­ate our staff who did a lot of the work to keep costs down.”

Geb­hardt said he encour­ages Genoa Town­ship res­i­dents to donate a tree or a park bench in honor of, or mem­ory of, loved ones as part of the fur­ther devel­op­ment of McNa­mara Park.

Town­ship admin­is­tra­tor Paul Wise said there is still work to do at McNa­mara Park.

“Tables and benches will be added over the next cou­ple of weeks, then we’ll play it by ear,” Wise said. “Our pavil­ion is very pop­u­lar; we’ll be adding some other smaller pavil­ions so peo­ple can use them. We don’t have a park levy so we have to pace our­selves and make addi­tions to our town­ship parks as we have the money.”

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