Last year, the City of St. John purchased seven Victorian street lights to be placed in various locations in our Brown Park. The 12 1/2' lights are fluted with a round base. These globed, cast-aluminum lights were paid for using donations from our local Odd Fellows Lodge, the St. John Women's League, the Cornwell Memorial fund, and from a National Trails grant.

With the addition of five St. John homeowners each buying a light, our city qualified for an extra free light bringing the total number to eight lights for our main park area!

Our city work crews have now installed these eight lights and will complete the park's lighting job by installing four additional Victorian lights on Brown Park hill.

Bill Ogden of Timberline Tree Care(located in Cunningham, Kansas) traveled to Mexico last December to pick up the first eight and is planning to go down there again this fall for the other four.

Our city crews will start removing overhead lines and wooden poles throughout Brown Park once all the lights are installed.

Our city's electric crew starts working on the Brown Park Victorian light installation.
Once the job's completed, the wooden poles and overhead wiring will be removed.

Mark Green, Mark Thompkins and Jeff Williamson start digging the holes for the concrete pads that the Victorian lights are placed upon.

The two electricians oversee their work!

More pictures to come!

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