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By Mayor Sam Hosler, Town of Kearny
Mayor Sam Hosler, Town of Kearny
Pioneer Days in Kearny are this week, and the town will be filled with people. It is also Holy Week for Christians, so many church events will also fill the days and bring families together. The theme this year is “Spirit of the West,” so it is appropriate that a Gymkhana will take place at the rodeo grounds on Friday, beginning at 9 a.m.
With the carnival taking place, tournaments at the ball park, and events at the rodeo grounds, the Kearny Police Department is asking for our assistance. Please park your car carefully and lawfully. The road to the rodeo (by the ball park) needs to be kept clear for large vehicles, sometimes pulling trailers. Improperly parked cars will be towed.
Overflow parking for the carnival and ball park is in the empty lot on Jamestown by the railroad crossing. This is private land, so please be courteous.
Kearny’s Volunteers in Patrol (the VIPS) will be out and about all of Pioneer Days, assisting our Police Department. At their last meeting, Mary Flint was chosen at VIPS leader. We are glad to see some new people in VIPS, too.
The annual egg hunt will take place in Hubbard Park on Saturday at 8:30 a.m. This will happen about the time that the floats are getting ready for the 10 a.m. parade, so this area will be busy. Please, everyone, be careful with so many young’uns about.
On Friday afternoon, April 1, the landscape architecture students from Arizona State University are asking the public, especially teens and younger adults, to take part in their presentation at Ray Hall of Church of the Good Shepherd. The students wish to engage every sector in town on the ways we use the Gila River and what we would like to see once the tamarisks are removed. More details next week.
I’ll confess that the last three months have been a bit difficult for me. My nerves affected everything in my body below the neck, so walking was difficult and my hands felt like overgrown sausages. The medication after surgery made me a bit loopy, too. I still have some short-term memory difficulties which make it it difficult for me to come up with names in conversation. I will start physical therapy this week. All in all, I am much improved and I am getting around much more. Thank you for your consideration and for your prayers.
Kudos to the Journey for the Clean Kearny group for taking care of so many yards and for the desert plantings at the top of Tilbury. This group is sponsoring a float in the Pioneer Days parade featuring their hopes to get all of us involved in beautifying our uptown district. I won’t tell you more… just look for the float. Thank you!
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