Dino the Sinclair dinosaur resumed his station at the service station at Third and Willis Monday and appeared to like what he saw halfway across the street, where Perry workers could seen beautifying the boulevard with spring plantings.
As Dino looked on, Perry Maintenance Director Barry Chayet, Perry Parks and Recreation Director John Anderson and McCreary Community Building Aquatics and Wellness Coordinator Kami Kirchner placed flowers at the base of the “Iowa Girl” sculpture by John Brommell, dedicated in 2017 to Perry native Roberta Green Ahmanson, whose philanthropy in the late 1990s and early 2000s salvaged a number of decaying downtown buildings.
Farther up the boulevard, similar handiwork recently done by Perry workers Mark Hemphill, Mike Peterson and Jeff Stewart was blooming with Perry pride where flowers grow in the shadow of the “Furrowed Fields’ sculpture by Jim Russell, dedicated in 2018 to the local tradition of farm labor.
