According to retired Mayor Jim Irish “The Lions club came to me and said you know we have some land down underneath the bridge, how about if we swap the city for that land and the city puts in a gazebo at the park, so that we could have an actual stage that’s covered bands or quartets could play there even in bad weather. So, we knew that the land underneath the bridge wasn’t quite worth as much as a gazebo, but it was a good community involvement and effort, so we did it.”
La Center Historical Museum 