Park ground breaking.

So after YEARS the city FINALLY decided to stop ignoring our part of the city and broke ground on the community center at Gus Garcia Park. We went to the ground breaking this morning. There was some neat folklorico dancing and conjunto music as well as some great short speeches (is the rich mayor anywhere???? hmm . . . nope, didn't see him but some of the other good councilmembers were there). The highlight for us was that Gus Garcia himself singled out David, our neighborhood association neighborhood improvement coordinator, to be the first one & in the center ground breaking. David has worked tirelessly to get this park under way. In fact, right after we moved in, one of the first meetings we attended was part of the park project. Here's a few photos.

This is Doug & Blue (nickname). Doug is working with PARD and AIA to get architechture students to landscape design the rest of the park. Blue is our current neighborhood association president.Aren't they beautiful? This is such impressive dancing.
Gus Garcia singing with the conjunto band.
Madalyn is in the brown sweater to the left of Gus Garcia. She doesn't live in the neighborhood any more but had worked so hard for this when she did live in the neighborhood that Gus wanted her to help ground break too. David is in the grey Texas shirt and Texas cap. To the extreme right is Steven, he also worked hard to get this going. BTW, Steven also got the city to lower the softball team registration costs this year. It was a beautiful day out and I'm looking forward to a nice park for walks.