GARNER DANCE PAVILION 2: Will repairs at Garner interfere 
with summer dancing fun ... find out on Passport to Texas
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

For 65 years, Garner State Park's pavilion - on the banks 
of the Frio River - has been the nightly summer meeting 
place for people who like to dance to the music 
emanating from its old jukebox. 

If you can't come to Garner to dance, then why come to the 
area? :04

Superintendent Craig VanBaarle, (van-bare-lee) is being 
modest. A construction project is currently underway to 
stabilize the banks of the river ... 

 ... to keep it from eroding. Every time we have a flood, more and 
more bank erodes, and it is already starting to cut under some 
of the foundation around the pavilion. :12

Funds for the $700-thousand dollar project come from 
Proposition 8 bond monies, approved in 2001. Eventually 
the cracked and uneven dance floor will also be improved.

The Friends of Garner is going to foot the bill, and we're going 
to put a cap over the dance floor to make it smooth again. :07

While park visitors will not be inconvenienced by the 
work, people tubing the Frio could be.

When they're doing construction and building this wall, they'll 
have to reroute the river just back a little ways to keep it from 
up against the bank. And, so folks that are tubing down the 
river will have to get out and walk around this construction. :13

A small inconvenience to ensure dancers have a safe 
place to strut their stuff for generations to come. 

That's our show for today ... for Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti.