By Kerry Lyman
Volunteers trickled in and out of Fernley’s Main Street Art Park most of the morning on Tuesday, August 12 to help install 95 plants in newly irrigated planters and among new artwork installed along the linear park.
The artwork and landscaping effort was mostly funded by a federal Community Development Block Grant, a $1,200 donation by Twisted Steel and a $2,500 donation by the Fernley ACES, according to Lydia Altick, deputy city manager, noting that Trex also donated an eight-foot by eight-foot tree planter.
At about 11 a.m. last Tuesday, Jessica Murdock, development coordinator for the city manager’s office, said about 20 volunteers had shown up earlier, but the growing heat of the day made many of them disburse and only a few were left at that time, before two small school buses from the Step Ahead Preschool drove into the parking lot and disgorged 16 young and eager volunteers.
Seven city employees also helped out at the planting event, Murdock said.
The block grant funds were also used to pour an asphalt walking path along the length of the park, extend electrical lines to provide nighttime lighting to some of the displays and self-watering irrigation to the planters, costing about $60,000, Murdock said.
Pointing across the street to the barren yard by the train depot, Murdock said improvements to that landscaping effort will be done at a later date. At an earlier city council meeting, Altick had said block grant funds had also been used to purchase a planter for that site, as well as a 9-foot metal flower bouquet and three 5-foot sculptures of flowers and insects.
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