Pavilion Construction and Community Engagement

said it is he goes no it's not he says I'm sure it's a duplicate come on up here the guy walked up here touched the side held out there and he said are you kidding this is actually the real sign yes we bought the real sign and both guys started to tear up it was like really kind of cool so Ellen had a lot of fans he had a lot of people that you know really loved him uh and that's why we wanted to build a park here for the little league for the kids to enjoy it for families to enjoy it and to have all his trophies and all his memorability here on display and uh as you met earlier gentleman from the Greenfield uh Lions Club they rent it out on weekends they rent it out during the week they let people use the park uh and the money goes back into the park plus goes back in into their pockets too the nice thing about it too is the Milwaukee County Park system a couple of years ago kind of they've got a lot of parks in the Milwaukee County Park system here and they decided to run out of money to help keep all these Sparks so I sat down with the mayor and now mayor over the we Greenfield we went in front of the Milwaukee County Board and got it turned over to actually the city of Greenfield so they have a lease on on the park right now that they take care of the park and that's why they cleaned it all out so you can see the balds back there they city of Greenfield takes care of they cannot come into the building because the only people that can come into the building is the committee members or the Greenfield Lions people but the city of Greenfield is not allowed to come in here they can do repairs on the outside of the building but the lions are responsible for everything that's inside the building have to make sure none of the artifacts get messed up or St items that we got here a lot of these items were either donated by different people or through Ellen's collection also too I had heard that whenever people went into his house to get artifacts to bring here that he had his Winston Cup trophy in the guest room with a sheet over it is that true myself one of the committee members went down to the house we flew down there met with Jerry and th quiry and I was expecting to walk into a room in his house cuz everything was neat in the house uh matter of fact I stayed in 's room that time when we were there for a couple days nothing was touched and I said to Jerry I said I noticed all the After Shave and all his uniforms were in the closet and everything else he…