$600,000 TO BE USED FOR PARKS.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - Palmdale will use $600,000 in state grants to renovate and repair youth baseball fields and to plant trees in the second phase of the Robert St. Clair Park along Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , officials said Monday. A $500,000 grant will be used to improve the American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. Little League and Palmdale PONY League The Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League, also known as the PONY League, was a Class D minor league baseball circuit that played from 1939 through 1956. The forerunner of the modern Class A New York - Penn League, the PONY served as the first professional baseball address of fields. An additional $100,000 will be used for a tree planting program. ``Grants like this are necessary to bring facilities up to top-notch levels,'' said John Calka, president of the Palmdale Pony League. ``This won't address everything, but it's a start.'' The baseball leagues have a number of improvements planned, including repairing and renovating snack bars and restrooms, upgrading irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. , improving field lighting, and providing access for the disabled. The city of Palmdale is the co-lessee with the leagues for the fields. The city maintains the grass, pays for water and works with both leagues on improvements. Tom DiPrima, vice president of baseball operations for American Indian Little League, said one of the top priorities will be to make safety improvements to the fields, such as leveling the playing surface, and replacing an irrigation system that has inadequate water pressure. ``We work hard to make a thousand dollars go a long way. To have an opportunity to spend that kind of money is phenomenal,'' DiPrima said. ``There's an opportunity to something of real benefit for the kids.'' The $100,000 tree planting grant will go toward the next phase of the Robert St. Clair Park, the linear park that runs along Sierra Highway. The next phase will run south of Palmdale Boulevard toward Avenue R. During negotiations over the state budget, City Councilman Mike Dispenza and Palmdale's parks director, John Lasagna, asked Assemblyman as·sem·bly·man n. A man who is a member of a legislative assembly. assemblyman Noun pl -men a member of a legislative assembly Noun 1. George Runner George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. , R-Lancaster, about the possibility of getting grants for the ballfields. The request came right as negotiators were talking about recreation funding. ``Sometimes,'' Runner said, ``timing is everything.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Announcing receipt of a state grant were, from left, Assemblyman George Runner, Palmdale parks director John Lasagna, state Sen. W.J. ``Pete'' Knight and Palmdale City Councilman Mike Dispenza. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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