POLO – Polo is considered one of 25 finalists within the 2023 PetSafe Unleashed contest, the place it might win $50,000 towards a brand new canine park.
“PetSafe Unleashed is a national contest where one lucky community will win a dream park, a PetSafe Unleashed Dog Park,” in response to PetSafeUnleashed.PetSafe.com. “[It’s] a place where pets and people can come together to spread the joy and share the love with wagging tails, smiling faces and new friends every day!”
Many Polo’s residents have been asking for a canine park for a number of years, City Clerk Sydney Bartelt mentioned.
“We would like to provide our community with a dog park that they have been asking for,” Bartelt wrote within the metropolis’s entry. “This will even be something that will draw more people to our small rural city.”
The proposed location for Polo’s canine park is 602 N. Adams Ave. Its two empty tons, which the town doesn’t but personal and must purchase if Polo wins the grand prize, Bartelt mentioned.
PetSafe has labored for greater than a decade to create dog-friendly areas throughout the nation by means of its Bark for Your Park program, in response to the web site. PetSafe has supported greater than 80 canine parks in 40 states since 2011, contributing greater than $1.65 million, the web site states.
Polo officers’ unique concept for a canine park was to have one close to the water tower if the town purchased the CedarStone Banquet Hall to function a brand new metropolis corridor, Bartelt mentioned. That buy by no means occurred, and so the place to place a canine park returned to the drafting board.
Bartelt mentioned she got here throughout 602 N. Adams Ave. as a potential location whereas confirming an deal with on Beacon, which is a geographic info system utilized by Ogle County.
“I told [Mayor Doug Knapp]‘When that dog park grant comes available, I’d like to apply,’” she mentioned.
Anyone 18 or older can vote as soon as per day at PetSafeUnleashed.PetSafe.com/locations/polo-il. Voting runs by means of Nov. 30.
The grand prize winner can be introduced Dec. 5, in response to the web site.
