Taking a page from his grandfather’s book, Howard Schock and his wife have funded a pavilion in Lions Park, land for which Frederick “Fred” Schock donated to the Dundee Township Park District in 1955.

Howard Schock said his family has owned businesses in East Dundee for the last six decades, including his own, Schock’s Towing, which closed with his recent retirement. When he started thinking about something he could do for the village, it made sense to not only build on his grandfather’s legacy but to add to a place that has meant so much to him, he said.

He spent every summer of his youth at the Edmund Haeger Memorial Pool, which is one of the amenities at the park at 570 Penny Road, he said. That it was his grandfather who made the park possible held special significance for him.

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