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Florala Kiwanis offers to help fund lake project
Published Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Members of the Florala Kiwanis Club offered their help Wednesday to fund the completion of the new community center and amphitheater at Florala State Park.
Mayor Robert Williamson said state department of conservation commissioner Barnett Lawley and director Mark Easterwood, Sen. Jimmy Holley, as well as many city officials and residents attended the meeting.
Williamson, who is also a Kiwanian, said members have offered to “float a loan or seek a grant” to finish construction of the $2 million project — $1 million of which was granted through the state park system and $1 million in labor and equipment donated by the U.S. Air Force’s Innovative Readiness Team (IRT).
Construction was halted in July after the IRT left the city. In September, the state said funding was not available to complete the project.
Williamson said it is unknown if the state can legally partner with the Kiwanis Club but state officials assured members “every effort” is being made to locate funding.
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Posted by lookeyhere (anonymous) on November 5, 2009 at 10:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What a waste of money.They had a nice building there for reunions and weddings.No telling what the fee will be to rent this building,if they ever finish it.
Posted by hiflyin (anonymous) on November 5, 2009 at 4:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
That was and is an overkill in florala.
That town is dead and will never be revived. Everyone there has always had to depend on florida to make a living.
I say to florala why don't you find someone that has been outsideof the area 2 or 3 time's in thier lifetime that might know how to get you some job's there. I will not even drive thru there because of the police having speed traps and any other infraction you can think of try an keep that corpse alive.
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