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100-FOOT TOWER ON HORIZON.


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LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England
Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River.
 _ Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers.  was given permission to install a 100-foot-tall cellular telephone service tower disguised dis·guise  
tr.v. dis·guised, dis·guis·ing, dis·guis·es
1.
a. To modify the manner or appearance of in order to prevent recognition.

b. To furnish with a disguise.

2.
 as a pine tree at Lancaster City Park.

The tower will provide the city with $1,800 a month in rent as well as support lights that will provide more illumination illumination, in art
illumination, in art, decoration of manuscripts and books with colored, gilded pictures, often referred to as miniatures (see miniature painting); historiated and decorated initials; and ornamental border designs.
 for a park picnic ground and a park maintenance yard, officials said.

``It's $1,800 that will help pay power bills,'' Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
  • Frank Roberts (diplomat) (1907-1998), British diplomat
  • Frank Roberts (footballer) (born 1893), English footballer
  • Frank Crowther Roberts (1891-1982), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
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 said.

The pole will be inside the park maintenance yard. At 100 feet, it is about 20 or 25 feet taller than the park's softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies'  field light poles, officials said.

Lancaster City Park was selected because it is at the center of a geographic area where Verizon lacked cell phone coverage, city officials said. Construction is due to start in six months.

The lease agreement is for five years, with automatic renewals for 25 years more.

7pt!_ Daily News

LANCASTER - Verizon Wireless was given permission to install a 100-foot-tall cellular telephone service tower disguised as a pine tree at Lancaster City Park.

The tower will provide the city with $1,800 a month in rent as well as support lights that will provide more illumination for a park picnic ground and a park maintenance yard, officials said.

``It's $1,800 that will help pay power bills,'' Mayor Frank Roberts said.

The pole will be inside the park maintenance yard. At 100 feet, it is about 20 or 25 feet taller than the park's softball field light poles, officials said.

Lancaster City Park was selected because it is at the center of a geographic area where Verizon lacked cell phone coverage, city officials said. Construction is due to start in six months.

The lease agreement is for five years, with automatic renewals for 25 years more.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Apr 12, 2001
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