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13th Annual Hales Corners Night Out

Tonight, tonight, tonight…Hales Corners Annual Night Out event in the Hales Corners Park – 5pm to 9pm. The Traveling Beer Garden will be here also…! Suburban Asphalt Company and the Friends of Hales Corners Park & Pool teamed up tonight at the 13th Annual Hales Corners Night Out event to raise funds for the Alyson…

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Landscape Improvements Near Hales Corners Pool House

Landscape improvements continue in front of the Hales Corners Pool house with County employee, Preston taking a quick break so I could take his picture. Meanwhile, on the other side of pool house Hales Corners Pool is full of activity on this 85 degree day. WaterStone Bank is the latest business to support the Friends…

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Memorial Day Ceremony 2018

The Veterans Memorial Committee held our seventh Memorial Day ceremony earlier today since we dedicated the Veterans Memorial in Hales Corners Park in 2012. Also, I experienced an awesome surprise today when Paul Gregory, Navy veteran and his wife Beth showed up for the ceremony today. Several years ago I had invited Paul to check…

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Milwaukee County Parks Department Removing Brush at Hales Corners Park

It’s a sunny day with the temperature nearing 80 degrees and the Milwaukee County Parks Department and their crews are hard at work chopping down and removing brush in areas along the stream in the back of Hales Corners Park. It’s great to continue to see the vast improvements in Hales Corners Park. This is…

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16th Annual Earth Day Cleanup

The Friends of Hales Corners Park & Pool held our 16th Annual Earth Day clean-up today at the Hales Corners Park & Pool (33 acres) including the pool house basement. An awesome turnout today for the 16th annual Friends of Hales Corners Pool & Park cleanup. You couldn’t ask for better weather today, and were…

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Folding Up the Ice Rink for the 2018 Season

Special thanks to Friends of Hales Corners Park & Pool volunteers, Don and Dave Paulus, Michael Zens, Tony Campione and Mike Jansen who met at Hales Corners Park in 30 degree weather this morning to fold up the ice rink liner and hauled to the Hales Corners Pool House basement. One of the liner braces…

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Volunteers Clear the Alyson Dudek International / Community Ice Rink in Hales Corners Park

Wow! This will be a job this morning for our Friends volunteers including yours truly to clear the Alyson Dudek International / Community Ice Rink in Hales Corners Park. Special thanks to Friends volunteers Don P, Dijana and Sonja, Whitnall High School students. On behalf of the Village of Hales Corners, the surrounding communities, the…

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Brother Help Keep Ice Rink Clear of Snow

This winter we are trying something new with the Community Ice Rink in Hales Corners Park. The Friends of Hales Corners Park & Pool have left two shovels at the rink for anyone who wants to skate right away. Today, after work I stopped by and two brothers, Mason and Tanner were shoveling the rink…

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Volunteers Brave the Cold to Resurface the Ice Rink

This morning the Friends of Hales Corners Park & Pool volunteers, Don Paulus, Mike Seavert, AJ and his father Tony Campione met in 5 degree weather at the Alyson Dudek International / Community Ice Rink in Hales Corners Park to pick up litter, secure the snow fence with cable ties and resurface the ice. Tony…

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Our Village is Truly Americana

After my Committee of the Whole meeting tonight in the Village of Hales Corners, I stopped to take this picture of our Community Ice Rink, The Veterans Memorial and our Village Christmas tree in the far background. This could be a postcard with a better picture of a cold winter night in January. Our Village…

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