September 1, 2020 The pandemic and derecho may have changed league and tournament play at Ahrens/Paschall Memorial Park this summer but they didn’t deter the park’s capital improvement project checklist. Ahrens Park is home to eight youth softball and baseball fields, outdoor basketball courts, a tennis court, four pickleball courts, a sand volleyball court, [...]
September 12, 2019 The third and final phase of the current improvement plans for Ahrens/Paschall Memorial Park are to begin, creating a new entrance to the park, an additional exit out of the park and resurfacing parking lots. In fall 2017, the Ahrens Park Foundation announced a $1 million multiphase, multiyear capital improvements project. [...]
June 10, 2019 Twenty-five-year-old Ahrens/Paschall Memorial Park is getting a Phase II facelift, this time for the tennis and basketball courts. In fall 2017, the Ahrens Park Foundation announced a $1 million multiphase, multiyear capital improvements project. Phase I, the largest of the projects, was completed in May 2018 with the installation of two [...]
May 18, 2019 On Saturday, May 18, a special project celebrating the life of Mollie Tibbetts came to fruition in Grinnell. Two sculptures, created by artist Gail Chavenelle of Dubuque, Iowa, were unveiled and installed in memory of Tibbetts. One sculpture was installed in Ahrens Park near the Memorial Flag Pole and the second [...]
September 20, 2018 Get Into Grinnell Blog (Posted by the Grinnell Chamber of Commerce) Are you familiar with Grinnell's Giving Gardens? The first community Giving Garden was started in the summer of 2013 at Grinnell Regional Medical Center. The gardens were developed as a part of a community transformation grant, and are intended to give the [...]
The always colorful and enjoyable fall event, Kites over Grinnell, will be held Sat., Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ahrens Park, sponsored by the Grinnell Rotary Club. This year’s event will honor three generations of Rotary leaders from the Urfer family: the late Samuel J. Urfer, who served as president [...]
July 2, 2018 On Saturday, July 7, Imagine Grinnell (IG) will combine its third annual Giving Gardens bike tour with a new offering—the first annual Grinnell Gravel Tour, a cycling option that is growing in popularity nationwide and within the community. The bike tour is being coordinated this year by IG intern Kate Wiley, [...]
June 14, 2018 Grinnell's array of giving gardens are yielding fresh produce available to all. Several deliveries of produce have already been made to Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) to be made available to families using the MICA food bank. Many of the ongoing gardens are at locations where volunteers do the planting, tending and [...]
May 29, 2018 On Friday, May 25, second grade students from Bailey Park and Fairview Elementary Schools initiated the latest in recreation equipment on two new playgrounds at Ahrens/Paschall Memorial Park. Last fall, the Ahrens Park Foundation announced a $1 million multiphase, multiyear capital improvements project for the nearly 25-year-old park. The new playgrounds—one [...]
April 26, 2018 Ahrens Park is replacing equipment and surfacing in two playgrounds which had reached the end of their useful lives, and the April 20 We Are Grinnell Day came along at just the right time. Led by Coach Tony Stenburg, the GHS Student Athlete Leadership Team (SALT) arrived at Ahrens Park on [...]
