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Jessica’s Splashpad opens to the public BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com
The long-awaited splash pad memorial to the late meteorologist Jessica Starr-Rose officially opened to the public May 25, in time for the Memorial Day holiday. Novi Mayor Justin Fischer said that the timing to open Jessica’s Splashpad couldn’t have been more perfect. “It’s been something that we have been talking about for probably about 10 years, but it really didn’t get traction until (former Mayor) Bob Gatt and Jessica’s family came together and really started pushing it,” Fischer said of the idea for a splash pad. “It’s an amenity that we really don’t have anything like in our parks. We have a lot of parks. We have 1,500 acres or so of parkland. We have bike trails and we have swimming at Lakeshore (Park) and we have active soccer fields, and we have an art park, but we didn’t have something for those littler kids that want to cool down in the summer.”
LEFT: A boy plays with a water cannon during the private opening of Jessica’s Splashpad. Photo provided by Carol Starr
ABOVE: The butterfly and rainbow water features in the foreground were the ideas of Jessica Starr’s children, Noah and Riley. Photo by Brian Wells
See SPLASH PAD on page 12A
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