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-Message photo by Bill Shea
The members of the Pleasant Valley awareness committee and the neighborhood residents invite everyone to celebrate the Juneteenth on Saturday at HC Meriwethe Park. Greg Naylor is seated left to the left in the front row. In the second row, on the left, Chassdie Mosley, Charlene Washington, Sherry Washington, advisor Jen Crimmins, Steve Clayton and Cameron Cameron Councilor Nelson. At the back are Vickie Zimmer, Syanne Holman, Tatum Lundberg, Brandon Presswood and Jameel Hameed.
-Message photo by Bill Shea
The members of the Pleasant Valley awareness committee and the neighborhood residents invite everyone to celebrate the Juneteenth on Saturday at HC Meriwethe Park. Greg Naylor is seated left to the left in the front row. In the second row, on the left, Chassdie Mosley, Charlene Washington, Sherry Washington, advisor Jen Crimmins, Steve Clayton and Cameron Cameron Councilor Nelson. At the back are Vickie Zimmer, Syanne Holman, Tatum Lundberg, Brandon Presswood and Jameel Hameed.
A major historic American event and much more local development will be marked on Saturday during a Juneteenth celebration.
This major historical event is Juneteenth himself.
Juneteenth is a national holiday commemorating on June 19, 1865, which is the day when the Union troops entered Galveston, Texas, and said that all the slaves of this state were finally free. This date is often considered as the final end of slavery in the United States, although it took a constitutional amendment ratified later this year to really eliminate it.
“It’s a very important day in history for everyone,” said Sherry Washington, president of the Pleasant Valley Awareness Committee, who organized the next celebration.
“Everyone is just very united with regard to Juneteenth,” she added.
Local development is the complete reconstruction of basketball terrains at HC Meriwether Park in Pleasant Valley.
The celebration will start at 11 a.m. on Saturday in this park on the 10th avenue Sud-Ouest.
The first on the agenda is a ribbon cup ceremony led by the ambassadors of Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance, which will mark the completion of basketball terrains.
The old park basketball courts were mainly torn off and replaced in a job of $ 442,000 completed last summer. Nels Pederson Co. Inc., from Badger, was the general entrepreneur.
After the ribbon cup, these shorts will be used during a basketball tournament.
There will also be a car show at the park. Throughout the day, there will also be sellers and food in the park.
Washington said that a panel listing the members of the awareness committee at Pleasant Valley will be set up on the closure surrounding the courts.
The members of the past and current committee are Dessie Amerison, Lori Branderhi, the former advisor Neven Conrad, advisor Jen Crimmins, Perry Bender, Helen Gully, Jameel Hameed, the former supervisor of the County Webster, Merrill Leffler, the representative of the State Ann Meyer, the city councilor Terry Moehnke, the Council Cameron, Roger Murphy Washington, Sherry Washington, Nate Naylor, Brandon Presswood and Vickie Zimmer.
If you leave
What: Juneteenth celebration
When: 11 a.m.
Where: HC Meriwether Park, 10th avenue Southwest
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