Park offers renewed swimming area

The Lone Star City Park now boasts a cleaned up swimming area, which will prove extremely popular during the coming summer months.

Lone Star Fire Chief Jerry Stoermer said “When I was a kid, we had a really nice swimming area out here, but it had grown up where no one wanted to swim out here.” Through volunteer efforts of several area men, including Steven Blythe, the swimming hole has been cleaned up, and new barriers have been put out at the beginning of the beach area.

Besides the swimming area, the park also boasts two playgrounds, picnic tables, and barbeque grills, as well as basketball courts and baseball fields.

The swimming area and park are free for public use, but here is no lifeguard on duty, so visitors are reminded to swim with caution.