For Gary Councilman Dwayne Haliburton, the Ivanhoe South Nature Preserve is more than a restored resource for the city’s west side: It’s a place of fond memories.

Haliburton was a student at Indiana University Northwest when he went with a class up to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago for an assignment, he told the dignitaries and crowd at the now-revamped preserve’s rededication Oct. 30. The trip and its connection with nature stuck with him to the point that he couldn’t stay away.

“I kept going back to Lincoln Park Zoo for two months. It was like every Sunday, I’d go to church and then head to Chicago,” Haliburton said. “I went back so many times, I took a date.

“(A place to absorb and admire nature) is what the Shirley Heinze Land Trust has created for us.”

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