'shall we go to the park today?'
be a little bit wary if you live in Portland, Oregon and the
park is named Mills End Park, because it is small, this is it above, in 1946,
Dick Fagan, a journalist in Portland, Oregon, noticed that there was a hole in
the median of a street where a lamppost used to stand, He decided to put it to
good use by building a park there. Fagan named it Mills End Park after the
title of his regular newspaper column, Mills End, the City of Portland acquired
it in 1976, so it’s an official city park, Parks and Recreation workers tend to
it carefully, according to Oregon Live, Mill Ends is weeded, watered, planted
and maintained like every other park in our National Gold Medal-winning
system," Mike Abbaté, director of Portland Parks & Recreation, wrote
to the challenger, the park was dedicated to Fagan, an Irishman, on St. Patrick's
Day 1948,
"It has a small size but a huge history and legacy in our
city," Abbaté says, "Mill Ends is revered by thousands, and has been
for years, it is an important leprechaun sanctuary, the only such site west
of Ireland, and we treasure it as a valued Portland park, as for the 'world's
shortest fun run,'" Abbaté adds, "a simple lap around Mill Ends Park
will accomplish that record as well." on Monday, Mark Ross, media relations with Parks & Rec completed the first
world's shortest fun run, He confirmed Tuesday that he dropped the mic upon
completion.
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