Darke County Parks levy: Don't let a very negative person influence your vote.
Look at the facts:
- We have 13 county parks in Darke County.
- There are 14.9 miles of multi-use bike trail built and maintained by Darke County Park District.
- There are 11.1 miles of hiking trails in your Darke County parks.
- Our naturalists visit all Darke County schools. That amounts to over 5,000 students. Students visit our parks as well on field trips. Several schools from surrounding counties visit as well.
- 50,000-75,000 visitors use our county parks annually. They come from all over the state of Oho and other states.
- Shawnee Prairie has a nature center, log cabin, sugar shack, restored log house, black smith shop, aviary and much more.
- The Bish Discovery Center houses the Park’s maintenance facility and has community gardens, a pollinator garden, bike repair station with water bottle filling station and many other educational displays.
- Darke County Parks offers many free family fun events such as, Maple Sugarin’, Prairie Days, History Encampment at the Gathering at Garst, and Walking in a Winter Wonderland to name a few.
- Biking, canoeing, kayaking, arts, crafts, gardening, raptors and education programs about nature and history are but a few of the exciting things that Darke County Parks has to offer. You just can't list everything here.
I am a Park Board Commissioner for the parks; there are 3 of us. We make sure that the Darke County Park District’s mission statement is followed. We help determine the best way to handle the budget. We are volunteers; we receive no pay. We are part of the approximately 300 volunteers who do our best to make Darke County Parks -YOUR parks, the best. I urge you to please vote for Issue I.
Roger Brocious
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