For much of his life, Bob Giardina has enjoyed the lake at Middlefield Village’s Mineral Lake Park. Bob and Norma have lived a stone’s throw from the quiet waters on Sperry Lane since 1965, where Bob has watched the fish, taught children how to catch and release them and kept an eye on the condition of the lake and the surrounding park. But Mineral Lake has not always been so picturesque. In 1965, the lake was a mud hole fed by the creek, Giardina said. Storms or spring snowmelt caused the lake to overflow and flood the ball fields below...
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