Three nail trivia challenge

Gazette congratulations go out to Brian Carl, a village of Linglestown resident and a staffer at Linglestown Life church, for being the first reader to submit a correct response in the Gazette trivia contest #1 – Name the resident, business, group or organization that donated the land now known as Koons Park to Lower Paxton Twp.

Brian credited his father, Harold Carl, for helping him come up with this correct answer:

The simple answer is the Linglestown Fire Company donated the land to the township.

The long answer is, Pete Koons originally owned the land (just basic pasture which he may have used for his livestock business at the time). He donated the land to the Fire Company. Following that, the township wanted the fire company to donate the land, however, at the first meeting it was an item for vote, the vote failed and they chose not to donate the land. As the story goes, the fire company later called a special meeting with the purpose of voting on donating the land again, and this time it passed. One of the stipulations of the donation was that every year, Linglestown Fire Company be allowed to hold their firemen’s carnival on the grounds.

So, Pete Koons to the Fire Company, then the Fire Company to the township.

Gazette reader Charles Hoffer and Sean Harp also successfully completed the trivia challenge.