Carbondale Dog Park Receives Grant

 Friends of the Carbondale Dog Park annonunced today Carbondale will recieve a $25,000 grant from PetSafe to finish construction of the dog park on West Sunset. The press release is below

Friends of Carbondale Dog Parks is thrilled to announce that Carbondale has been selected as a winner of the PetSafe Bark for Your Park $25,000 new dog park grant.

Our small town came in third place (out of 5), a testament to the way Southern Illinoisans pull together for worthy causes. FCDP is deeply grateful to everyone who voted for the dog park. It's your park too!

This grant will allow FCDP to complete the 2 1/2 acre dog park that is under construction at Parrish Park, 2500 W. Sunset Drive, Carbondale. The completed dog park will have an ADA friendly walkway from the parking lot to the shelter, small and large dog fields with a water fountain and spray fountain in each field, three "sally port" entry gates as well as maintenance gates, a boulder field and other play features, an event area outside the east gate, and landscaping to screen the dog park from the Parrish School playground and adjacent soccer fields. 

Through the generous support of the community, the Parrish Park dog park is being built without use of any tax money. John A. Logan Construction program is building the walkway and shelter; the Plumbers Union Apprenticeship Program will install the fountains; Asaturian Eaton has provided surveying and site engineering; Arthur Agency provided design work; Thad Heckman, Architect, created the concept drawings; E.T. Simonds and Mark Mathis Excavating prepared the site; the Egyptian Board of Realtors donated the water fountains; the City of Carbondale laid the water lines; Pure Pet, Indian Creek Kennel, and Banterra Bank donated benches; the Carbondale and Murphysboro Walmarts made grants for the project; and many individual donors, including Glenn and Jo Poshard and other anonymous large donors, made this project possible.