Editing Homer City, Pennsylvania (section)

===Floodway Park===
Floodway Park, bounded by North Main Street, Station Street, the Center Township boundary, and Yellow Creek, is a multi-use recreational site maintained by Homer-Center Parks and Recreation.  It offers visitors two softball fields with bleachers, a pavilion with electricity, a walking trail, restroom facilities, parking for events and serves as a "trailhead" for the Hoodlebug Trail.  Its name speaks volumes about the history of this section of the borough and the origins of the park itself.  It is located on a natural flood plain adjacent to Yellow Creek Park, and it represents  a different approach to land use: it can be developed and used on a regular basis, but in ways that do not profoundly inhibit the flood plain nor will structures built on the plain be ruined should severe flooding occur.  Prior to the Flood of '77 the area was an extension of the Main Street/Downtown Business District.  C. S. Kunkle Lumber, Sesti's Restaurant, the Colonial Hotel, and the original location of Luther Ford Sales at one point all stood where the park is now found.  (A residential neighborhood was located behind the businesses, too.  On the opposite side of the creek the Empire - later Homer City - Theater dating to 1913 was another prominent structure.)  The entire area was decimated by the Flood of 1977 with clean-up and restoration of the landscape lasting into the 1980s and the dedication of the park in the early 1990s.