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Vol. 31, No. 33
August 17, 2016
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Firm picked for Swan Pond restoration plan
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Brookfield loses Chris Stach, village’s ‘greatest historian’
Hope is to implement design in spring 2017 By BOB UPHUES
Key author of history book, longtime Landmark contributor dies at 64
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More than two years after two separate winter flood events scoured the landscape of Riverside’s Swan Pond Park, officials are moving toward a permanent fix for the park. On Aug. 9, the Riverside Landscape Advisory Commission selected Living Habitats, a Chicago-based landscape architecture and environmental planning firm, to devise a planting plan that follows principles of Riverside’s designer, Frederick Law Olmsted, to reverse the damage done to the landscape by the flood. The planting plan will be much more than a list of approved plants for Swan Pond, particularly the lowest area near the drainage culvert that was installed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2012 as part of a project to improve drainage in Swan Pond Park. The firm’s recommendations will include design guidelines, an estimate of cost for implementing the design and a maintenance plan to make sure the area isn’t inundated with invasive species of plants in the years that follow. “That’s important to us, because we want to make sure it’s designed in an Olmstedian
By BOB UPHUES Editor
hris Stach, a beloved local figure who devoted himself to documenting, researching and preserving the history of Brookfield, died of natural causes at his home on Aug. 10, 2016 at the age of 64. In addition to his private efforts collecting and recording historical photos, mementos and information about the village, Mr. Stach had written dozens of columns and historical feature articles for the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark in the past 17 years. “I can’t think of one single person who has had a bigger impact for documenting Brookfield’s history,” said Kit Ketchmark, president of both the village of Brookfield and the Brookfield Historical Society. See CHRIS STACH on page 11
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