By Patricia Bogumil
Editor
Jean Jacobson believes whoever first said “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” must never have owned a dog.
Jacobson, now chairman of the Norway Town Board, recalls that one of the first resolutions she sponsored in the 1980s as a Racine County Board member was to allow dogs on the bike trails. “It’s hard to imagine the trails without them,” she said.
Thirty years later, Jacobson’s commitment to the four-legged best friends in the community will be recognized.
The public is invited to a formal dedication of the new Jean M. Jacobson Dog Park at Case Eagle Park in Rochester, 4 p.m., Thursday, July 10.
The new dog park has been created so residents in the west end of the county have a place close to home to enjoy the recreational activities offered in a dog park, explained county executive Jim Ladwig in a media release.
It is named for Jacobson, a lover of the outdoors, who has said she’s “walked her dogs on county bike paths for well over 30 years,” Ladwig said.
“I was pleasantly surprised at the naming of the park and I look forward to the ribbon cutting,” Jacobson said. “The park is certainly going to be fun for residents and their dogs
The newly opened 2.5-acre dog park is at 310 S. Rochester Street (Highway J), Rochester, on the north end of Case Eagle Park, just west of Highway 36.
It is fenced off and separated from the rest of Case Eagle Park and the activity areas around it. Access is designed to prevent animals from getting outside the enclosure so that dogs do not need to remain on leash in the dog park.
Separate enclosed areas are set up for large and small dogs. The dog park is equipped with amenities for dog owners, including a dispenser for cleanup bags.
Jacobson said Case-Eagle Park offers an excellent, central location for many other opportunities for western Racine County residents.
“The bike trail and bridge going over the Fox River was constructed when I was the County Executive, using federal funds, and it is my favorite place to bike, especially in the fall,” Jacobson said.
` Ladwig credited the year-round popularity of the county’s first dog park, the Karen A. Nelson Dog Park, at Quarry Lake Park in Racine, with the interest to create additional dog parks in Racine County.
Jacobson in turn credited Ladwig and the County Board for having the foresight to create the park in the Rochester area.
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