WARREN COUNTY, Ky. – Third and fourth graders from Rich Pond Elementary School helped the City of Bowling Green plan their Riverfront Park makeover.
Officials are visiting all the city and county elementary and middle schools to inform students of their plans and have them draw what they would like to see at the renovated park.
Jim Weinberg, marketing director of the Riverfront Park project, said, “The Riverfront Park project is really something that we want the younger generation to really benefit. More importantly, it’s their expression and their ideas and their creative ideas that help to make it something special.”
One teacher expanded on what the program teaches students.
Jaci Bolin, an art teacher at Rich Pond Elementary, said, “Where a lot of them don’t think that they can take art in to the real world, but then there’s this, and they can actually do it, and it’s just really cool.”
Some of the ideas the students shared were waterfalls and zip lines.
Older students will be writing a book on the history of the park as well.
A groundbreaking for the new development is expected to be early next year, with the project taking multiple years to complete.
