Somerville Community Invited to Henry Hansen Park Ribbon Cutting on Thursday, November 7

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, Ward 5 City Councilor Naima Sait, and Director of Veterans Services Jerome Thomas invite the Somerville community to join a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Henry Hansen Park on Thursday, November 7, at 9 a.m. The new park includes a memorial wall and plaques honoring Sgt. Henry Hansen and main branches of the armed services, a seating wall, water bottle filler, native landscape plantings, and more. 

Henry Hansen Park is located at 70 Partridge Ave., on the corner of Medford St. and Partridge Ave. Sgt. Henry O. “Hank” Hansen, a Magoun Square resident, was killed in action just one week after participating in the first flag-raising on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. The new park design was driven by community process with funding provided by the Massachusetts PARC program and the Somerville Community Preservation Act. 

To learn more, please contact Arn Franzen, Senior Project Manager, OSPCD Public Space & Urban by emailing Afranzen@somervillema.gov. 
 

Persons with disabilities who need auxiliary aids and services for effective communication (i.e., CART, ASL), written materials in alternative formats, or reasonable modifications in policies and procedures to access the programs, activities, and meetings of the City of Somerville should please contact Adrienne Pomeroy in advance at 617-625-6600 x 2059 or apomeroy@somervillema.gov.  

This event will be videotaped by the City’s GovTV team. Watch it on-demand with optional closed-captioning (select the CC icon) on YouTube.com/SomervilleCityTV. Or watch on cable TV at GovTV Comcast Ch. 22 and GovTV Astound (RCN) Ch. 13 & 613.  Videos generally post within one business day of recording.