Rowley Park Re-Opening
Because of the snowstorm on 10/29/11, The Grand
Re-opening of Rowley Park had been postponed to Saturday,
November 5th, 2011. Today it is a beautiful sunny day and already
the neighborhood kids have been exploring the new attractions of
this restored city playground. Click
HERE for a history of the park and to see what it looked like
just a few short months ago.
Besides the usual playground attractions, this
park now has some new climbing structures and a spinner that is
bound to become a new favorite.
At various points around the running track,
exercise stations have been set up, along with instructions for
getting the most out of each work-out at that station.
The East Orange Unified Marching Band has a
different use for the track and the field. They were scheduled to
participate in the Grand Re-opening of the Park, but they also
had a football game scheduled for today, so they hurried over to
the park before it was time for the buses to take them to Sparta
for the game with Pope John XXIII High School. They drew quite a
crowd as they rehearsed their band show for the game on the field
at Rowley Park, so they got to participate in the Re-opening
after all!
You can expect to see the Band frequently
practicing on the park's large football size field since adjacent
Cicely Tyson High School doesn't have a field big enough for the
entire band which now has more than 100 members.
The crew from City Hall is still setting up for
the big celebration as the Band returns to CTS to catch their
buses to the game, but they will be back and so will our Band
Parent Association photographers. In the meantime, other
photographers from city hall and the news media have arrived and
if they make their photographs available on-line, we will provide
a link to them so you can see this historic event as it happened
today.
© 2011, James Gerrish and
Frederick Goode,
Temporary Custodians