Students from Sand Lake Elementary, which houses the school district’s Japanese immersion program, were behind the name change.
From left to right: Michael Tranberg, Addison Myers and Stella Falsey were among the Sand Lake Elementary School students behind the effort to rename Sand Lake Park to Chitose Park.
Students from Sand Lake Elementary School lobbied the Assembly to change the name of Sand Lake Park to Chitose Park in honor of the Japanese city. “It has a golf course, a playground, really cool stuff, and they’re honoring us in this way,” Falsey said. “So I think the least we can do is honor them in our city as well.”
“The past few years, it has been on the board for getting, like, shut down… the immersion programs, some of them,” Myers said. “And I think it’s just really great that some of us have this opportunity to be able to learn how to speak Japanese and go on these amazing trips.”
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