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Photo: Joseph Slacian

Mayor Vanlandingham with his wife, Susan, celebrate the City’s Stellar Designation with a victory ride on
a fire truck through downtown.

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Rendering of John Drook Memorial Park.
“The committees from Huntingburg and Wabash
prepared outstanding plans that impressed our and Cultural trails, improvements to the Ind. 13-Ind. 15
selection team,” she said after the ceremony. Corridor on the city’s southside, a city-wide program
“The transformational projects proposed by both with participants partially identified already, owner-
communities are examples of the positive economic occupied rehabilitation program, and creation of the
impact that can be achieved through thoughtful Rock City Lofts in downtown Wabash.
planning and broad-based public and private sector
communities.”

The lieutenant governor later said, “This is what
makes me have great confidence in our smaller
communities around the state of Indiana are going to
prosper just like our larger cities,” she said. “Indiana is
going to boom not only in our urban centers. But in our
rural communities and our smaller cities as well. I could
not be prouder of Wabash and Huntingburg and the
great Stellar programs they put together.”

Included in the city’s Stellar plans are improvements
to the Eagles Theatre, creating an all-inclusive
playground at the John Drook Memorial Park, a
downtown façade improvement program, creation of
an amphitheater at Paradise Spring Historical Park,
continuation of the Streetscape improvement program,
continuation of the Wabash Riverwalk, Charley Creek

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