PALMDALE CELEBRATION TO OPEN PARK SQUARE.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer A Saturday morning jazz concert will mark the completion of Civic Center Square, a park designed with an old-fashioned town-square look. Palmdale will celebrate the completion of the $1.4 million park at 38315 Ninth St. East from 9 a.m. to noon with music and dancing. It is the first event for the square, which Palmdale officials envision as becoming a center for public events. ``In the look of the park, we've achieved what we were trying to create,'' said Mayor Jim Ledford. ``The real test is its use by our citizens.'' Saturday's event, ``Jazz on the Square,'' will feature a performance by the Palmdale Community Dance Troupe at 9:45 a.m., a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:15 a.m., and a concert by The Herbie Kae Band at 11 a.m. Also on hand for the day will be face painters, city information booths, and Riki-Tiki the Clown. The 4-acre park - a former gravel parking lot - is bounded by avenues Q-9 and Q-10, and Eighth and Ninth streets East. The park's look was inspired in part by Palmdale's sister city, Poncitlan, Mexico. That city has a town square with a bandstand. ``The whole town goes there on a Saturday night,'' Ledford said. The centerpiece of Civic Center Square is a 21-foot-tall, 30-foot-diameter pavilion and a central rose garden. City officials envision events such as outdoor theater presentations, concerts and holiday celebrations being held there. The other prominent feature of the square is a $45,000 fountain. The cost of the fountain was partially offset by a $10,000 donation by Mary Courson Steelsmith in honor of her parents, Mary and Melville Courson, and about $5,000 worth of free labor the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. See also: Free from the contractor, MJS (language) MJS - An early system on the UNIVAC I or II. [Listed in CACM 2(5):1959-05-16]. Construction. The Courson family took up residence in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley in 1941, operating a motel and a ranch. Melville Courson was president of the Palmdale Chamber of Commerce in the 1940s. Plans call for a plaque to be placed at the base of the fountain, reading ``Dedicated to the citizens of Palmdale by Mary and Melville Courson.'' The park has rose bushes and 13 different varieties of trees, including shoestring acacia, blue paloverde, desert willow Noun 1. desert willow - evergreen shrubby tree resembling a willow of dry regions of southwestern North America having showy purplish flowers and long seed pods Chilopsis linearis Chilopsis, genus Chilopsis - one species: desert willow and Texas mesquite Mesquite, city, United States Mesquite (məskēt`), city (1990 pop. 101,484), Dallas co., N Tex., a suburb of Dallas; inc. 1887. Manufacturing includes industrial power supplies, building materials, and medical equipment. . The Civic Center Square is part of Palmdale's downtown revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. effort. Other upgrade projects include the Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling greenbelt Greenbelt, city (1990 pop. 21,096), Prince Georges co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; chartered 1937. Greenbelt was planned and built by the federal government as an experimental model community for families of modest income. , widening streets and installing curbs and gutters, and building a children's library near the Hammack Activity Center. |
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