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Rotary Club: Seward Project Title: Rotary Park Enhancement- 1B 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? Project Summary: Enhancing the Rotary Park Pavilion as an environmentally themed fish and wildlife viewing area for residents and visitors, with interactive art, interpretive signs, maintenance, new picnic benches, a trail and other enhancements in Seward, Alaska. Our goals for this phase (Phase 1B-2023/24) were the following: 1. Create and install metal art, prioritizing a moveable, interactive whale and then additionally two triangular metal panels of fish and wildlife in the Pavilion structure if funding allowed through other grants requested. We reiceved $20,000 in additional grant funding from the Rasmuson Foundation and Seward Community Foundation. This allowed us to fund the moveable whale art, but not the triangle art. 2. Do a land survey to locate private land boundaries adjacent to the city property for future trail design. 3. Create an additional floating bird roost (in-kind donations). The work completed was a model and presentation of the moveable whale. The full scale moveable whale is nearing completion, to be installed in September 2024. A land survey of the trail area was completed as a donation. An additional roost has been planned and will be completed this summer. Some additional unexpected work was added as well, using funds we had left since the land survey was donated and using some new donations. A bench was donated by the Seward Senior Center created a Rotarian memorial bench with a plaque that says "Honoring Departed Seward Rotarians Who Gave Service Above Self". The Kino Rotary Club from Arizona donated, created and delievered a peace pole which will we will install south of the Pavilion soon and will do an unveiling ceremony with the city and partners in the summer of 2024. We collaborated with the city about putting down gravel to update the existing loop trail to provide a nicer looking path to and a pad for the new memorial bench. The gravel work is in progress now. 2. How many people benefited from this project? The project will attract, inspire, and educate youth and adults, including up to 250,000 visitors annually and the Seward community of 3000 people. 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? Beneficiaries are the community of Seward and our visitors. The primary humanitarian need met is promoting protecting our environment. Enhancing the park meets the following community needs: * Inspiring people to take simple actions to protect their environment and promote understanding of Rotary. * Enhancing and promoting the protection of salmon, wildlife, and pollinator habitats. * Inspire interest and care about Seward's history * Creating a free recreational destination for residents and visitors that is inclusive, fun, inspiring, and educational while helping the local economy. * Inspire people to take positive actions to protect the environment by telling the story of Seward's history, which shows how we can make or break the environment and create something beautiful when we want to. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 35 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. • Meeting on site and other locations to collaborate with the city on locating areas for the memorial bench, peace pole, and planning the gravel trail. Meeting with contractors to oversee trail work and sign installation. • Creating YouTube videos, blog posts, newspaper articles, and social media posts on the project, the creation of the whale and more. • Collaborating with other partners to develop words for the peace pole. • Emptying recycle cans at Rotary Park to set the example for recycling and protecting the environment shown in our messaging. • Collaborating with fiscal sponsors and funders on the other associated grants. • Giving public presentations on the history, ecology and project details to the community. • Organize public presentations on the creation of the interactive whale. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? In this phase of the project, parnters contributed in the following ways: • City of Seward- Collaborated on planning and oversight on signs, permits, trail ideas, locations for the bench and peace pole, maintenance ideas for the park and art. • Resurrection Bay Historical Society helped set up a community presentation on the project. • Seward Community Library Association is our fiscal sponsor on two grants. • Seward Historic Preservation Commission assisted on finding words for the peace pole. • Qutekcak Native Tribe assisted in research on words for the peace pole • Buck Crouch and the Tucson Kino Rotary Club are building a peace pole. Buck delivered it to Alaska and will help install it. • John Lang and Associates (new partner) provided pro-bono land survey. • The Seward Senior Center (new partner) has donated a memorial bench. • Metco, a new partner donated gravel and rocks for the new trail work. 7. Income
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District must retain receipts of all expenditures for at least five years. Please scan and upload to the project's "Documents" tab all invoices (be sure they are marked "paid"), receipts and/or copies of checks for the full amount of the project budget. By signing this report, I confirm that to the best of my knowledge these District Grant funds were spent only for eligible items in accordance with Trustee-approved guidelines, and that all of the information contained herein is true and accurate. I also understand that all photographs submitted in connection with this report will become the property of RI and will not be returned. I warrant that I own all rights in the photographs, including copyright, and herby grant RI and TRF a royalty free irrevocable license to use the photographs now or at any time in the future, throughout the world in any manner it so chooses and in any medium now known or later developed. This includes the right to modify the photograph(s) as necessary in RI's sole discretion. This also includes, without limitation, use on or in the web site, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, exhibitions and any other promotional materials of RI and TRF.
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