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With wonderful weather conditions and a substantial turnout, Albertville Mayor Tracy Honea said he couldn’t have questioned for a better weekend for the city to celebrate its official grand opening of Sand Mountain Park and Amphitheater. 

“We have been extremely privileged that almost everything went off incredibly perfectly,” Honea instructed The Reporter. “We’d had climate problems through development, but by the time Saturday came around, it was a beautiful working day for our local community.”

Country new music star Lee Brice kicked off the weekend with the park’s first-ever live performance Friday evening inside the brand name-new amphitheater. In accordance to Park Basic Supervisor Patrick O’Brien, near to 2,700 overall persons attended the live performance. Previously that working day, the park also hosted the Marshall County Large Faculty Tennis Tournament at the Tennis Heart, which incorporated 12 teams and 400 complete attendees throughout the working day.

On Saturday, around 2,000 people frequented the park for Opening Working day, a lot of of whom took element in the Neighborhood Working day Passport tour, O’Brien explained. Albertville youth sporting activities experienced its opening working day for the city’s baseball, softball and soccer leagues. The park hosted 6 teams at the Albertville Superior School baseball tournament with an estimated 250 whole men and women attending the event.

“It was seriously neat to see all that unfold and get area throughout the working day,” Honea reported. “Having tournaments and out of city company coming in is awesome and we like to see that, but it was not the exact same experience we experienced Saturday. Owning your own people in the neighborhood out there — it was seriously a special time.”

The mayor mentioned the amount of men and women to thank for a successful weekend event was too extensive to listing, but he did provide exclusive many thanks to O’Brien and his team. 

“Our grand opening sequence of functions concept of ‘Celebrating Sand Mountain’ was so fitting mainly because the complete region was positively impacted through the week and weekend,” O’Brien said. “The official grand opening was an historic minute for the City of Albertville, Marshall County and the Sand Mountain area, Sand Mountain Park & Amphitheater, and Sports activities Services Organizations because of the long lasting impression the location will have.  

“We showcased just about every factor of the park and all that it has to offer, though paying out tribute to all the challenging function, management and determination it took to get us listed here.  Our Mission focuses on drastically improving mental and physical wellness, although also driving economic affect, and the two aspects ended up on comprehensive display.  

“We captivated countless numbers of men and women to the park, hosted our initially concert with national nation-music star Lee Brice, and held a community working day passport tour coupled with Opening Day of youth baseball, softball and soccer.  It was all the things I envisioned our Grand Opening to be and was a culminating place in the Sand Mountain Park journey.  

“The most exciting portion is that our affect is just setting up, and the up coming chapters of our tale will keep on to establish on all the optimistic momentum we have set up,” O’Brien additional. “Go Gain the Working day!”