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Boster concerned new sledding hill all for naught (video)

Marcia Boster, at Mason City’s new sledding hill, on December 22nd, 2012.

MASON CITY – Marcia Boster wasn’t set on the location of a new sledding hill right from the beginning, and now that it has been built, she fears all the work that went in to the project is for nothing.

“I just feel bad for the families,” Mrs. Boster said in an interview Saturday next to the sledding hill, located in Georgia Hanford Park on Mason City’s southeast side.  She said that since the big snowstorm last Thursday, she has been walking the area and seen and talked to families who approached the hill and “turned around and left disappointed.”

Mrs. Boster says she and 19 other Mason City citizens tried to plead their case for weeks to project director Ozzie Ohl and the Mason City Park Board that the location “wasn’t a good fit” for several reasons but the hill was built anyway.

Among the concerns Mrs. Boster have pointed out are: The sledding hill is too small and will not appeal to teens; the walk to get to the hill is too far; most days, it is too cold in the area where the sledding hill was built due to wind; people have tried to drive cars up to the hill; disruption of natural prairie setting; lights and parking are inadequate; and no snow will stick to the hill due to the fact the hill faces north to south instead of east to west, as she says the preliminary plans had indicated.

Mrs. Boster made it clear that she respects the project and the work of volunteers such Mr. Ohl but still feels that the hill should have been built elsewhere.

Watch video:

httpv://youtu.be/6_AdCiV1P6I


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