 Well, it's been 10 years in the making and this week work began on a new waterfront park in Niswa. Clayton Castle has more in this week's Northwood's adventure. The noises of bulldozers and chainsaws have taken over the waterfronts in Niswa in anticipation of a new park that is 10 years in the making. It's been kind of stale in regards to the development there for several years and we just received a great donation from a gal named Millie Gertson, a $35,000 donation to help us jumpstart the development out there of which the City Council also matched for another $35,000 so we are getting a full-fledged trail that's going to connect downtown Niswa to the Gull Lake chain of lakes. It's going to be great. The park along Niswa Lake will include a number of trails, an amphitheater, and other usable amenities for parkgoers. We'll have a picnic shelter out there for people. We're going to have part of Millie's donation actually was a donation for benches, picnic tables, barbecue pits, garbage cans, all kinds of different things so it's going to be a wonderful addition to the community and a fully usable park by the end of spring. The new development is an effort to bridge the figurative and literal gap between the waterfront and the businesses in downtown Niswa. We have such close proximity to the waterfront here but really no access to it for the general public. If you're not living on the lake you really don't have a spot to go in Niswa to enjoy the lakes themselves. The Niswa Lake park will add to the already popular trails and attractions in the town meaning tours from Gull Lake and other surrounding lakes will have easier access to downtown. Having the Paul Bunyan Trail come right through Niswa is really going to just give them another leg of trail to use and then like I said the access to the water is going to be a really important thing for the tourists. There'll be all the people on the Gull chain of lakes will be able to come right up to Niswa Lake, dock their boat and come right walk right into town. Most of the aspects of the project are expected to be completed in the spring. Reporting in Niswa for this week's Northwoods Adventure, Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.