<div>Friends and neighbors,</div>
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<div>This coming Monday October 25th at 7:30 PM, MNCPPC will be at Town Hall regarding 3 separate items related to Riverdale Community Park. </div>
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<div>First, this time is advertised as a public hearing to get input and discuss the possibility of selling the "Boy's and Girls Club" on 51st Street to MNCPPC as a part of consolidating town resources and moving toward obtaining a community building that meets all, or at least most of our community's needs. Those who want to see our town get the arts and crafts, performance, classroom, meeting, indoor game and information sharing space that many of us have called for, come out and help us decide if this sale and a move toward a consolidated/central/nonresidential location makes sense for our town. </div>
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<div>Second, the long awaited and much sought after dog park is going to get addressed. As our committee on the topic suggested, the northern section of Riverdale Community Park along 51st St. will be proposed for this use. Dog walkers come out! Sorry, dogs must be left outside at the meeting ;-)</div>
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<div>Finally, those concerned about MNCPPC moves to expand and improve the football, soccer, lacrosse field at the park should definitely come out too. After getting the information referenced by Todd Whitehead and looking into the mater, I asked MNCPPC to have diagrams and information about the proposal on display. While this request seems to be getting them to the community a bit ahead of when they planned to, they readily agreed to provide the basic schematics to us on Monday. So, now is a great opportunity to come out and get a good look at what is proposed, express concerns about what may be problems with the proposal and work with the rest of us to make sure any changes are for the better.</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>Vern<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vernon Archer, Mayor<br>Town of Riverdale Park, Maryland<br></div>