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The City park is located on Main Street with a gazebo, tennis/basketball court and playground equipment.

Schaller-Crestland Students Clean Up The Town
May 23, 2006

Nemaha Park The Schaller-Crestland High School helped clean up the City Park through their May Term Activity program. The students were offered several choices including job shadowing but those who chose "Community Service" were allowed to spend a school-day working on community projects in Schaller, Early, and Nemaha.

Early in the day on May 23rd, 2006, a bus delivered a group of high school students and teacher Kelly Wiener who immediately began washing windows, picking up trash, pulling weeds, and loading brush.
Nemaha Park
The student's work in the park consisted of trimming grass around shrubs, sweeping leaves and trash from the tennis court, raking and anything else they felt needed done.

Besides working in the city park, they also washed windows at the Post Office, Hazel's Coffee Shop, planted flowers in planters, and pulled weeds from the city sidewalk.

Nemaha Park
Russ Davis donated his time and a lift with bucket for trimming the lower branches on trees and with Matt Quealy's help were able to raise the canopy of shade over the park by trimming the lower branches.

Russ and Matt did the tractor and loader work while the students loaded the cut branches on a wagon.
Nemaha Park
Russ built the lift to fit on a Westendorf loader. It is easily attached and can be transported on a hay rack. The cage for the worker swings so the platform is always parallel to the ground.

Fire Hydrant

The fire hydrants and the main water hydrant also received a new coat of red paint.

The students were given an afternoon refreshment break at Hazel's where the bus picked them up mid-afternoon for the ride back to school.

The town of Nemaha really appreciates the work of the students and for the school to allow them the opportunity to serve the community.

Nemaha Park Has a New Fence
June 2004

Nemaha Park
The Nemaha city council approved installation of a chain link fence around the basketball court in the park in the summer of 2004. There are many informal basketball games and practice in the city park on main street year-round (weather permitting). When the old wood posts rotted that were holding the prior fence, the decision was made to replace the old fence with a maintenance-free chain link fence. It was installed in June, 2004.

Park located on former School Grounds

There is a large park on the former school grounds. It includes an enclosed shelter house, ball park with seating, and a Memorial Tree Arboretum. The people of Nemaha and Delaware Township decided to beautify the corner lot northwest of the junction of highways M50 and D15 after the school had been torn down.

Shelterhouse
They held fundraisers and with volunteer help were able to erect the building with the majority of work being completed in one snowy weekend in April 1997.


Ball Park

The former school ball park is still in use by Little League and has been remodeled and maintained as an attractive ball park.


The Memorial Tree Aboretum covers the large grounds with an assortment of common and unusual trees and shrubs. The trees are being dedicated in memory of people from the Nemaha area. Each tree is identified with a plaque telling of the person whose memory it represents and the tree type.

Take some time to make the rounds, you won't be disappointed!
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