{"id":2617,"date":"2015-04-15T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2015-04-15T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:24:33","slug":"randall-park-wildlife-viewing-deck-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/randall-park-wildlife-viewing-deck-nearing-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Randall Park Wildlife Viewing Deck Nearing Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction on the $70,000 Randall Park wildlife viewing deck began earlier this year thanks to fund raising efforts that were spearheaded by the Yakima Southwest Rotary Club and a grant from the Yakima Rotary Trust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new deck will be a tremendous improvement for visitors and replaces a structure that was in really bad shape,&#8221; said Yakima Parks and Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson. &#8220;Service clubs have demonstrated a real commitment to Yakima&#8217;s parks and this is just another example of their generosity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Yakima Southwest Rotary Club will be busy on Saturday, April 18<sup>th<\/sup> installing hand railings around the new wildlife viewing deck located in the northeast corner of Randall Park. The volunteers will begin their work around 9:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>After the railing is installed, plans call for placing concrete pavers on the viewing deck along with outdoor lighting and a circular bench for visitors to watch ducks, geese and other wildlife that live in the nearby pond and wetlands. The entire project is expected to be finished by May.<\/p>\n<p>The wildlife viewing deck is just one of many improvements being planned for Randall Park this year.<\/p>\n<p>Randall Park covers more than 40 acres and is located south of Nob Hill Boulevard between 44<sup>th<\/sup> and 48<sup>th<\/sup> avenues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Wildlife-Viewing-Deck-News-Release-pdf.pdf\">Wildlife Viewing Deck News Release pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction on the $70,000 Randall Park wildlife viewing deck began earlier this year thanks to fund raising efforts that were spearheaded by the Yakima Southwest Rotary Club and a grant from the Yakima Rotary Trust. &#8220;The new deck will be a tremendous improvement for visitors and replaces a structure that was in really bad shape,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}