DALLAS CENTER, Iowa — At least 47 volunteers came out to clean up around the Dallas Center softball fields and Mound Park Saturday.
The Valley Disaster Relief team contributed their 12-man chain saw crew, who cut down five trees, reached high into another to remove a large “widow maker” hanging over the Burnett Complex trail, trimmed 45 trees, transported the branches and chipped them all.
The Waste Management team delivered three huge dumpsters, ice cream coupons for all volunteer workers, a six-person work crew of their own plus rakes and debris boxes.
Thirty-two Dallas Center residents came with their own rakes, shrub trimmers and lots of sweat to help stack the branches, rake up debris and carry it to the dumpsters.
Lending their hands were David and Teresa Bagby, Julie Baldner, Julie Becker, Roger Blake, Jimmy Boll, Mike Buckalew, Ryan Coon, Kim Dreher, Lisa Howell, Wayne Fowler, Curt Gear, Bob Haxton, Shawn, Amy, Marshall and Austin Jarnagin, Eliza, Clark and Keith Johnson, Margie Kenyon, Mike Kidd, Bob King, Ryan, Zach, and Alex Kluss, Amy and Todd Lawton, Keith Lord, Ken Matteson, Jack Merkle, Dan and Mary Ellen Oberander, John Patrick, Curt Pion, Cindy and Alexa Riesselman, Dirk Roghair, Rob and Missy Rose, Jerry Roy, Roy Skarin, Ammon and Jessica Taylor, Josh Thompson, Mary Werch and Gary Wilson.
All residents of Dallas Center are invited to come out and watch softball softball games while sitting in their lawn chairs under the newly created shade trees.
Bob King is president-elect of the Dallas Center Parks and Recreation Board.
