October 17. 2009 23:47

I like the new park because it is updated, but i wrote many letter in regards to this matter when we were all writing letters for a new park. one of the main concerns was that the park was not seperated by age. well now you have built a great structure for the older kids who are in school all day and left the little kids with a swing and teter totters???? what do the little ones have who go th the park every during the week?

Amy

October 19. 2009 14:25

@Amy -
I assume you're talking about Vet's Playground on the top of the page.

I believe.... to be confirmed.... that the plan is to also build a new toddler play area. There were a couple of grants that CCGP and the city wrote & received, and at least one of them was focused on improving the toddler play equipment.

Unfortunately, these things take a painstakingly long time to come to fruition. The only reason why the recently completed build happened as fast as it did (around 3 months from grant award to build) is because of KaBOOM! setting an absolute deadline of Dec. 3 for completion. The city's parks and rec had to pretty much drop everything else it had on its schedule (including a rebuild of Culver Park playground) to complete everything within that timeline.

Our group will be pushing hard to continue improvements to Vet's Park Playground ASAP, but I would be ecstatic if it happened within 2010.

Dan O'Brien