{"id":215,"date":"2012-09-24T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:52:01","slug":"newest-additions-to-kiwanis-park-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/newest-additions-to-kiwanis-park-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Additions to Kiwanis Park Celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Parks and Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson \u2013 576-6416<br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov\">randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over that last several years, Kiwanis Park has celebrated a lot of improvements, including new softball fields, a new skate park, new basketball courts, and a new playground.\u00a0 On Saturday, September 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, the latest additions to the 34-acre park in Southeast Yakima \u2013 three new ballfields \u2013 were in the spotlight during a grand opening ceremony starting at 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of the three new, lighted ballfields, which can accommodate youth baseball as well as women\u2019s fastpitch and slowpitch softball, marks another step in securing the park\u2019s growing reputation as a premiere sports and recreation destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this year the Gateway Sports Complex at Kiwanis Park hosted the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges women\u2019s softball crossover tournament,\u201d said Yakima Parks and Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson.\u00a0 \u201cIt was a big tournament and it was a huge success.\u00a0 With the opening of the three new ballfields, we anticipate more events of the size and scale of the NWAACC tournament, or even larger, coming to Yakima,\u201d said Wilkinson.<\/p>\n<p>Other improvements were also made in conjunction with the three new ballfields including restroom facilities, a concession stand, an additional parking lot, and new playground.\u00a0 In total, the project cost more than $2.5 million.\u00a0 Funding for the project came from Yakima Rotary, Lions, and Kiwanis clubs as well as the Yakima School District, the City of Yakima, and the State of Washington Recreation and Conservation Office (\u201cRCO\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new ballfields, as well as all of the recent improvements at Kiwanis Park, prove that amazing things can be accomplished when the community joins together to achieve a goal,\u201d said Wilkinson.\u00a0 \u201cKiwanis Park is a great testament to the concept of public\/private partnerships.\u00a0 It really is a facility all of Yakima can be proud of,\u201d said Wilkinson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Newest-Kiwanis-Park-Additions-9-24-12-FU.pdf\">Newest Additions to Kiwanis Park Celebrated (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Parks and Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson \u2013 576-6416 Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov Over that last several years, Kiwanis Park has celebrated a lot of improvements, including new softball fields, a new skate park, new basketball courts, and a new playground.\u00a0 On Saturday, September 22nd, the latest additions to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}