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Sarasota News Leader December 27, 2013 Page 56 Club, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts all wanted to be involved, for Mable had played a role in their beginnings as well. The fountain with statuary in the center was crafted and dedicated in one of the most visible parts of town, the intersection of two major traffic arteries. But sometime after World War II, the fountain fell into ruin. "The city punched holes in the bottom and filled it with soil, " said Dorothea Calvert with the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation. "The city didn't want to maintain it." The remembrance fountain was itself forgotten until 2010. A committee was formed to investigate bringing "Mable's fountain" back to life, and in April of this year, construction began. The project was done without a dime of city money. An endowment was even created to pay for maintenance of the facility in A light system shines different colors on the fountain. Photo by Norman Schimmel The foundation of the fountain has been refurbished as well. Photo by Norman Schimmel