Brownsville receives Excellence in Parks Award

 

The Brownsville/Haywood County Parks and Recreation Dept., along with the City of Brownsville, has won the Excellence in Parks Award.

 

The award was presented by the Tennessee Municipal League (TML) at a conference in Nashville on Sunday, June 25, 2006, and is for the Webb F. Banks Passive Park on Key Corner St. Passive Park has been nominated and won several awards in the State.

 

“We are so fortunate to have this great park in our town,” says Parks and Rec. Director Nancy Cates, who, along with Anne Banks and Mayor Webb Banks, were on hand to accept the award.

 

Cates and her crew do a great job of keeping up several locations all over town, including the City Pool which is now open Monday through Friday, from 12 – 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. (They will be open July 4, too. Admission is $2.00 for 12 and up, and $1 for 11 and under.)

 

Truth be told, I’m sure they have a hand in a lot more than we know about or give them credit for. So, thank you, Nancy, and thank you to all the Parks and Rec. team. You work really hard to make us look good and we appreciate it.

 

Congratulations, also, to Mayor Webb Banks on being named the TML’s Mayor of the Year.

 

First Published June 30, 2006