By Josh Spreiter
Feb 4, 2021 10:14 AM
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin winters can be brutal, especially if you don’t like to be outside in all the elements. For one area man, though, it’s what he’s made a career out of.
We’re talking about Warren Lyerly, but everyone calls him “Junior.” You’ll see the Madison native most days at Tenney Park.
“I enjoy what I do, and I love what I do,” Lyerly said.
In the winter, that means tending to the ice rinks, but if you think this is an easy job, think again.
“I’ve fallen through before and never touched bottom,” he explained. “It’s kind of a nerve-racking thing, but the days go by really fast, and it’s really rewarding at the end of the day.”
December 17, 2020 at 11:57 am
A makeshift barricade at Cal Anderson Park built to prevent a sweep on Dec. 16, 2020. (Meili Cady/KIRO Radio)
A citizen activist says trash is piling up in local parks because of “do-gooders and dumpers.”
Andrea Suarez with “I Heart Downtown Seattle” says much of the trash filling city streets and parks is coming from donations from private citizens and social service agencies. She suspects many people are avoiding dumping fees by putting broken down or unwanted items near homeless camps.
People are dropping “food and supplies, home wares, … BBQs, TVs, generators, broken furniture you name it into our parks, and using the encampments really as camouflage for illegal dumping,” she explained.
Community questions Denny Park s future after city plans to remove homeless camps Kara Kostanich, KOMO News Reporter
Community questions Denny Park s future after city plans to remove homeless camps
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While the city of Seattle plans to remove the homeless encampment at Cal Anderson Park on Wednesday some community members are asking what’s next for Denny Park?
Since the pandemic hit many city green spaces have been overcome by homeless encampments, drugs and crime – Denny Park is one of them.
“It is a tsunami of a situation that s happening,” said Tim Gaydos who is the chair & founder of Friends of Denny Park – the group that transformed the park 2017.