Liberty Lake Folks Hold Dinner/Auction For Pavillion Park

Sat., May 3, 1997

By Marny Lombard marnyl@spokesman.com (509) 927-2166

Liberty Lake residents are holding a dinner and auction next weekend in their drive to equip the new Pavillion Park.

The Friends of Pavillion Park hopes to raise $87,000 in the next month or so, through the auction and other fund-raising activities.

The money will go toward local matching funds, which are necessary to land a state grant of $200,000. So far, the group has raised $113,000.

Playground equipment, bike racks, picnic tables, benches, tennis courts will be bought with the money.

If the local effort does not reach its goal of $200,000, the state will only match the local funds available. But Friends of Pavillion Park has a safety net.

Greenstone Corp., owned by developer Jim Frank, will make up any shortfall with a loan.

“We’re certainly not going to let the opportunity to have the state grant slip by because of some timing problem with the fund-raising that’s going on,” Frank said. “We’re hopeful that the auction and other things we have going on will bring us very close to the total amount we need.”

The auction, to be held May 10 at the Red Lion/Doubletree Inn on Sullivan, includes items ranging from Mother’s Day gifts, to a personal watercraft, to donated dinner parties.

Organizer Kelli Schneidmiller said several artists from Liberty Lake have donated work, including painted tiles, table gardens, wreaths and watercolors.

“One of the doctors out here, just for a hobby, does wonderful watercolor prints of the lake birds,” Schneidmiller said. “It’s been fun discovering we have some nice artists in the area.”

Some of the dinner parties are linked with the summer concert series planned at Pavillion Park. One of the dinner parties includes two hours with Dan Seals, who will sign autographs.

Tickets for the auction must be purchased in advance. Call Scheidmiller at 255-9604.

, DataTimes MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: One l or two? How do you spell pavillion, with one l or two? Pavillion Park is spelled both ways, depending on who you ask. The Friends of Pavillion Park uses two. Spokane County maps, and Webster’s New World Dictionary, use one. Liberty Lake historian Ross Schneidmiller has good reason for using two l’s. He has admission tickets for the dance pavillion that stood at the north end of the lake from 1909 to 1962. The tickets spell pavillion with two l’s. Plus, says Schneidmiller, his online research shows that many of the famous dance pavillions used that spelling.

This sidebar appeared with the story: One l or two? How do you spell pavillion, with one l or two? Pavillion Park is spelled both ways, depending on who you ask. The Friends of Pavillion Park uses two. Spokane County maps, and Webster’s New World Dictionary, use one. Liberty Lake historian Ross Schneidmiller has good reason for using two l’s. He has admission tickets for the dance pavillion that stood at the north end of the lake from 1909 to 1962. The tickets spell pavillion with two l’s. Plus, says Schneidmiller, his online research shows that many of the famous dance pavillions used that spelling.