The Hammonton Gazette 02/27/19 Edition | Page 5

Parks and Rec. discuss handicapped accessible park equipment Page 4 • Wednesday, February 27, 2019 • The Hammonton Gazette COMMISSION, from Page 1 the topic at the first meeting was an update to the Hammonton Lake Park’s playground, with the addition of some handicapped-ac- cessible equipment. “We had a nice discussion for a little while and i guess where we left it was, Kiwanian Michael Pasquarello is going to develop a plan with the companies that make this type of equipment. Ki- wanis is a great organization that has donated a tremendous amount of time and money to our town and they are willing to match half of what we are going to try to get as a grant. Of course this kind of thing takes time, so it may be a year or two years before we see any action down there at all,” Cappuccio said. rodio and Sacco elaborated fur- ther. “Michael Pasquarello is a land- scape designer and is involved with this kind of stuff, so he and the company that designs the equipment can put a plan together and we’ll see how far we can go with money in the next three years or so. Kiwanis is ready to make the commitment and i can speak for the Mayor and say the town is as well,” rodio said. “i think whats noteworthy is the idea of coming up with a compre- hensive plan of what the park needs and tackling it one piece at a time so its manageable for everybody, and to note that Mr. Pasquarello is donating his time here in the planning stages. there was a beautiful day maybe two or three weeks ago, it was like 68 de- grees out and i had never seen so many families there. We are lucky to have the playground but it could definitely use some up- grades. So this is a start,” Sacco said. the President of the Hammon- ton Youth Soccer association Paul Massey addressed the committee with an update regarding the fields on Boyer avenue. “We met with frank LoSasso at the school and they are going allow us, at least for March and probably into april, to use the six acre site at the school not only for practice but games as well. if it comes down to it we can probably stay off of Boyer avenue the en- tire spring to the let the fields heal and let you guys do what needs to be done out there,” Massey said. approvals were needed for four use of facility requests including the Presbyterian Church of Ham- monton’s easter service on april 21 at Veterans Park, the american Cancer Society’s annual cycling event and DQ events’ triathlon at the Lake Park, and the Pinelands Preservation alliance’s rain barrel presentation at the Canoe Club on Saturday, May 4. Commission member Paul Ordille made a mo- tion to approve the entire report, seconded by James Borda and ap- proved unanimously. Chairman Louis Cappuccio then informed the commission that he attended a meeting with a representative from Kramer Bev- erage and that they would be in- terested in entertaining any ideas for the vacant area that is not on the rOSi map off of eleventh Street, which the company has al- ready acquired in their expansion project. He called on the commis- sion to use the time between this Parks and recreation meeting and the next to develop some ways that Kramer could use the land that would be beneficial to both the company and the town. “i think we as a committee could come up with some ideas that would integrate with their use of the facility in order to improve them. right now they’re going to be doing fencing and trees inside this area, but in the past they have had ball games with their employ- ees, so maybe some fields or something along those lines,” Cappuccio said. the meeting concluded with Sacco addressing the commission about the annual lake cleanup which will be taking place on Sat- urday, March 30. “We have around 100 volun- teers come out that day. We usu- ally have some doughnuts and coffee donated and aCUa pro- vides lunch. So if you’re around, come on out and help,” Sacco said. the next Hammonton Parks and recreation Commission SOLD! 800 S. White Horse Pike (Crowley Center), P.O. Box 1119 • Hammonton • 561-0505 • [email protected] • www.CrowleyCarr.com Congratulations TONY AND DONNA HARLEY on the purchase of your home! Thank you for putting your trust in Crowley & Carr. “The Best Place in Town to Find the Best Place in Town.” With nearly 30 years in business, who better to guide you on all your Real Estate needs than the CROWLEY & CARR REAL ESTATE TEAM!