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City of Hastings Parks & Recreation
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920 W 10 St, Hastings MN 55033
Ph: (651) 480-6175
Fax: (651) 437-5396
Web: www.ci.hastings.mn.us
“Creating Community Through People, Parks, and Programs”
Date: 5/12/09
To: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
From: Barry Bernstein, Parks and Recreation Director
Subject: Park Use Request
The Parks and Recreation Department received a request from a group called Hastings
Alano Society which serves Alcoholics Anonymous and Alanon Families to use CP Adams
Park on June 20, 2009.
This group wishes to conduct a pig roast at CP Adams beginning on Friday night at
approximately 6PM with the picnic on Saturday. This group indicated they would remain in
the park attending to their pig overnight.
Alano Society is seeking a variance to the City of Hastings Park ordinance indicating park
closing time of 10:00 PM.
I am seeking authorization from the City Council to allow this group to utilize the park as
indicated in their attached description.
Thank you!
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2801 Red Wing Blvd. 901 Maple Street 920 W 10 Street
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May 6, 2009
To Whom It May Concern:
We are planning our annual summer “Pig Roast” for the Hastings Alano Society. We do this
to bring together all of our members including Alcoholics Anonymous and Alanon Family
groups, as well as the general public who is interested in knowing what we do. We would
like to receive a variance from the normal park rules to allow us cook the pig which takes
approximately 12 to 15 hours. We will have people camp out to cook the pig and maintain
the fire – this is generally no more than 10 people. We generally arrive in the park around
6:00pm Friday to arrange everything. And the picnic will end on Saturday at approximately
8:30pm after our speakers and clean-up. This has been an annual event for many years;
we moved it to Shaar’s Bluff for a few years but couldn’t cook the pig on sight, so we moved
it back. There have never been any problems and we will have people there continually.
Thank you,
Thomas Schaefer
Hastings Alano Society