Meet just a few of Graeser Park’s supporters.

Colleen possesses a strong local background, having served as an election judge and a member of Robbinsdale’s Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Commission for more than 20 years.

Colleen’s husband, Kenn Patterson, was part of an earlier Eagle Scout effort to pick up trash and litter at Graeser Park. Now he continues with that “hobby” as a Robbinsdale Lion.

She was involved with research of various historic highways, and was thrilled to realize that Graeser Park’s boundary of West Broadway is the original route of the Jefferson Highway.

Along with her husband Mark Mueske, she was a member of the reorganized Jefferson Highway Association. Carol received a Minnesota History Society fellowship to research the highway’s route in Minnesota.

She wrote National Register of Historic Places nominations for New Deal era parks in Nebraska and Iowa, and was interested in exploring the possibility of a similar designation for Graeser Park.