Cascade, ID

On Saturday May 3, 2008 the Lifesytles & Education Sub-Group of Cascade Horizons sponsored a “Community Family Fun Day” to promote support for the upcoming vote on the consolidation of the City of Cascade Fire Department with the Cascade Rural Fire District. Over 150 attendees were treated to hot dogs, chips, soda and water while the children enjoyed face painting, games and an Astro Jump. The consolidation is important to the City of Cascade and all of its residents, it will help save money in the way of insurance premiums and provides a more efficient use of tax dollars that will benefit all residents. City voters are asked to vote “Yes” during the upcoming Primary Election on Tuesday, May 27, 2008.

Going to the City Council in May, is a request to clean up and fix up the signage related to the recreation opportunities in Cascade. Curb Appeal is volunteering to do the work, asking the City to only pay for the new signage. We hope to clean up a really messy sign jumble at the intersection pointing to Lake Cascade. Also we are proposing changing the signage for Armstrong Park to read that name and not ‘City Park’. Finally, with the support of the High School Advanced Biology Class, who recently won a $10,000 award from AARP, we propose signage for the park where their class project ‘Fischer Pond’ and the sports fields are, naming and signing the park ‘Fischer Pond Park’.

Idaho Power has volunteered equipment, and Idaho Power employees along with the Friends of the Cascade Whitewater Park will be performing a bathymetric (underwater) survey of the whitewater site sometime in May. This survey will provide necessary information for the engineering of the Whitewater Park.

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