APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) — The City of Appleton hopes to get area resident’s opinions on how best to develop Lundgaard Park.
The park, sitting next to Fire Station #6, where Mitch Lundgaard worked, will be developed over the next few years, and an open house will be held later this month where the public can weigh in on what they’d like to see.
“Some ideas that have been tossed around are a pickleball court, a basketball court,” said Dean Gazza with the City of Appleton’s Parks, Recreation, and Facilities department. “An open play space for kids to just play soccer, or throw a frisbee, or kick a ball.”
Lundgaard was a firefighter who was shot and killed in 2019 by a man whose life he had just saved.
Gazza says that the park will aim to memorialize not just Lundgaard but the three other Appleton firefighters who have died in the line of duty: Louis McGillan who died in 1933, Michael Calnin, who died in 1929, and Elmer Anderson, the city’s first fire chief, who died in 1901.
The meeting will be held July 28 between 4 to 6 p.m. It will be held inside the fire station in case of inclimate weather.
