By Joseph Slacian
jslacian@thepaperofwabash.com
Work on the city’s inclusive playground should be complete sometime in July.
That was the word from Park Superintendent Adam Hall to the Wabash Board of Parks and Recreation on Wednesday night, June 12.
“They do have a tentative finish date of hopefully mid-July,” he said. “Mid-July is their tentative goal.”
Work is underway on a grand opening celebration for the facility.
“It’s in the works,” Hall said. “Nothing has been decided yet.”
Most of the playground is in, Hall continued. There were problems with two pieces of equipment which weren’t designed correctly, so those items needed to be replaced.
“Most of it now is getting the landscaping started, as well,” he said. “We’ve put fresh dirt out and they’re getting ready to doing some groundwork on that.”
Brush and grass at the site was cut, Hall said, noting “that’s going to take a little time to bring it back to normal life.”
The facility, dubbed Friendship Hill, is located on South Carroll Street next to the John Drook Skate Park, and across the street from the Wabash County YMCA.
It is designed so that people of all ages and abilities can be involved in all aspects of play and also get the benefits of not just play, but those that come from interacting with others.
In another matter, work is continuing at the Wabash City Park softball diamond.
Volunteers are almost done with one of the dugouts, and are getting ready to start work on the other dugout.
Softball officials hope work is finished by July 4, so a tourney could be held at the diamond.