Statue commemorates the life of Alex Kuhn
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Talent:amy fleming amy.fleming@kimt.com coverage you can count on he was an influential figure in mason city.
Now - a statue of the late alex kuhn is on display - commemorating his life.
Kimt news 3's alex jirgens spoke with his father mark about the statue and how it's a symbol of the work he did in the community.
Alex.
/ lowerthird2line talent:alex jirgens ajirgens@kimt.com coverage you can count on amy - if you talk to anyone around town about the type of life alex kuhn had - there really aren't many bad things you could say about him.
Now- the next time you come to the mason city public library - it's hard to miss this beautiful bronze statue of the late mason city councilman.
Kuhn statue-live vo-1 lowerthird2line:statue commemorates the life of alex kuhn mason city, ia the statue features alex reading a book to his two sons - a nod to his days volunteering in reading programs at the library and schools as a substitute teacher.
It also includes a basketball - which represents his time as a coach.
I caught up with his father mark.
He tells me that this statue really serves as a great representation of the impact his son had here in north iowa.xxx kuhn statue-live sot-1 lowerthird2line:mark kuhn alex's father "a lot of people knew him.
He reached out to a lot of different people.
He was a very good city council person, he took that work very seriously.
There's a lot of people that recognize the work that personally, some of the things he's done in the past."
To make this statue a reality - alex's dad says over 400 private donors and businesses locally and across the state contributed to funding the statue.
In addition - about 16 thousand dollars were raised through guests at the all iowa lawn tennis club - which mark owns and operates.
Live in mason city - alex jirgens - kimt news 3.
/ thank you alex.
The statue was erected last week.
While there was no public dedication ceremony for the statue - kuhn says a future date for a public celebration will be set - hopefully sometime next