(Spirit Lake)– An organizational meeting is on tap next week regarding a new dog park in the lakes area. KUOO’s Becky Thoreson has more… (click here for actuality.) A number of area residents are hoping to create a dog park in Dickinson county. Organizer Amy Pas explains the concept…“A dog park has a fenced in area so the dogs can run off leash and they can socialize and act like dogs. They can run around and get a good work out and the people are supervising them, but they’re not leashing them, they’re letting them run free but they have a fence that goes around the dog park so the dogs can’t get hurt or run into traffic or anything like that. We are hoping to get atleast six acres which I know sounds like a lot but we need to have atleast enough space for a fenced in area for big dogs and a separate fenced in area for small or shy dogs and then enough room for a parking lot.”
She notes that residents and visitors could benefit from such a park… “It would be centrally located and it would be easy for everyone to get to and it would be something everybody could use. Something for the tourists and the year-round people and the summer people as well.”
Pas adds that a meeting next week will help to explain the project… “We are going to gather this coming Wednesday, on June 5th, at 6:30 p.m. at the Spirit Lake Library. We’re going to have a small power point presentation to explain to everybody exactly what we’re wanting, what we want for the look of the dog park, the size of the fence, the size of the space, what size of watering holes we want to have plumbed in, so everyone can get a real picture of what we’re trying to do. We want to make it nice. We think this county’s worth it, and we want everyone to be proud of it.”
The meeting is open to the public next Wednesday evening.
