GOSHEN—Just in time for I love My Park Day (May 7) and the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scout Gold Award, Goshen resident Kelly Fellenzer has received enough funding for her gold award project, a Goshen dog park.
Kelly, 16, started planning the project last summer and three months ago started a GoFundMe campaign to raise $8,000 for the materials and labor. While the page raised about $2,500, several large donations she recently received outside the GoFundMe site have exceeded her funding goal by over $3,000.
By the second week in May she hopes to break ground with the dog fence and by the middle of June have the rest of it completed and open to the public.
The dog park is about an acre in size, estimates Kelly’s father John Fellenzer, an engineer at Fellenzer Engineering LLP, and will be in Salesian Park behind the old seminary building next to the parking lot on the hill. The fence will connect with the 4.5 foot fence that skirts the park and will go till just before the stone memorial to St. Dominic Savio.
“We didn’t want to disrespect any memoriam that monument represents so we had to exclude that from the dog park,” Kelly explained.
