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(8/10/2001) <br /><ADVERTISEMENT> <br />STORY OPTIONS <br />■ E-mail to a frientl <br />■ Print this article <br />: Today's._Pioneer <br />Press <br />PioneerPlanet: front <br />News <br />Columnists <br />Business <br />Sports. <br />Entertai�ment <br />Summ.e..r_Guide. <br />7ravel <br />Liviny <br />Tech <br />Heaith <br />Water Cooler <br />• Soeciai_Reoorts <br />� Classified Ads <br />Published: Friday, August 10, 2001 <br />BY CYNTHIA BOYD <br />The Roseville Central Park Foundation has received a surprise <br />$382,500 check from the estate of a woman who in life skied <br />quietly through Central Park. <br />The story of the donation from a largely unknown benefactor <br />has a familiar ring. <br />Roseville's parks and recreation director Bob Bierscheid first <br />got wind of the gift last summer when a local bank called <br />asking for a tax identification number for the foundation, a <br />nonprofit group organized to help fund the city's park projects. <br />But it wasn't until 7une this year that an astounded Bierscheid <br />opened a letter to find the hefty check from the estate of Muriel <br />A. Sahlin, who died in 7uly 2000 at age 84. <br />Site._index The name didn't ring a bell, just as the name of benefactor <br />Harriet Alexander hadn't in the late 1980s. Alexander, who <br />loved to walk her dogs in the city's 220-acre Central Park, had <br />willed the park about $440,000. That money built the Harriet <br />Alexander Nature Center. <br />"We've got a Harriet Alexander all over again," Bierscheid said <br />this week, as he waited to learn more about the generous park <br />benefactor. <br />It seems this donor, too, loved the parks, buying herself cross- <br />country skis to tra�el snowy trails through Central Park, which <br />is between County Road B2 and County Road C and east of <br />Lexington Avenue. In her last years, Sahlin took a special <br />interest in the establishment of the arboretum. <br />Sahlin had lived in Roseville since the 1950s in a stucco <br />rambler she and husband Carl Sahlin had built. The late Carl <br />Sahlin, a former firefighter and World War II veteran, was <br />disabled by multiple sclerosis. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/fri/news/docs/106857.htm 8/31/O1 <br />