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ON THE DRAWING board for North Hazelwood Park are the long dashes.The shorter,double dashes show where the
three soccer-football fields, a canoe-sailboat dock and a bicycle-jogging and exercise trail will be constructed.
nature study area.The cross country ski trail is marked by
Park development set this summer
City planners' dreams of soccer fields, retention pond site. Blueprints for The majority of the work on the soccer
jogging and nature trails for North development of the park were drawn in fields will be completed by Aug. 1. The
Hazelwood Park in Maplewood will 1979. jogging and fitness trail is scheduled to be
become a reality this summer. Work on the park is expected to begin in completed by October or early next
The city has received a$61,000 federal early May. First on the development spring, depending on the weather.
grant to begin developing the park. This schedule is a 125-vehicle parking lot. Almost every part of the park will be
grant will be matched by $30,125 in After work on the lot is completed,three utilized. The lake will have a small dock
Minnesota state funds and $30,875 from soeeer fields will be constructed and a for launching canoes and sailboats.
the city. trail system will be established. On the Eventually the Community Services
This 40-acre park site is next to drawing board for the park is one asphalt Department hopes to conduct canoeing
Hazelwood Elementary School and is trail for biking, jogging and hiking: and sailing classes on the lake.
bounded by Hazelwood Avenue, County Adjacent to the trail will be fitness areas; The lake also has the potential to be a
Road C, part of undeveloped Kennard Blank explained. speed skating rink during the winter
Street and private residences on Beam The northwest corner of the park is months, Blank stated.
Avenue. wooded and will be left undisturbed ex- There will not be enough grant money to
The park has a 15-acre lake,which has a cept for a nature trail. include lights for the soccer fields, Blank
maximum depth of four feet, said Eric The remainder of the park is primarily said. A fund drive to raise $9,500 to
Blank, Maplewood Community Services open area and will eventually be land- illuminate one of the fields is being
directdr. scaped with trees and shrubs. Hills that conducted by the North East Soccer
The park land was purchased several are now used for winter sledding will be Association.
years ago by the city as a storm and water left open, Blank said. Persons interested in donating money
for the soccer field lights should contact
Allan Eastwood,association president,at
735-3199.
The federal money is a Lawcon Land
and Water Conservation grant from the
Heritage Conservation Recreation Ser-
vice, Blank explained. The federal grant
money is obtained from revenue received
from outer-continental shelf oil drilling
rights. The large oil companies pay the
federal government to drill on the outer
continental shelf. Part of this money is
then used to finance park developments
such as North Hazelwood Park, Blank
said.