$9.9 MILLION FOR PARK APPROVED GYM, COMMUNITY BUILDING PLANNED FOR STEPHEN SORENSEN.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LAKE LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Los Angeles County supervisors have approved spending more than $9.9 million to expand Stephen Sorensen Park by adding a 14,100-square-foot gymnasium gymnasium In Germany, a state-maintained secondary school that prepares pupils for higher academic education. This type of nine-year school originated in Strasbourg in 1537. and community building. Construction is scheduled to begin in May 2008 and be done by fall '09. "We have a lot of different entities like the Chamber of Commerce, the Town Council and the park board. The seniors are meeting hit-and-miss wherever they can find a spot. This will give them a place of their own," said John Jones, a Lake Los Angeles Town Council member and former park board member. "It will be a place for the kids to get in and play in the wintertime when it's too cold. It's going to be a good thing for the community." The board approved the park expenditure at Tuesday's meeting as part of the third phase of the park's development. The park, originally named Lake Los Angeles Park, was renamed for sheriff's Deputy Stephen Sorensen, who was shot to death in August2003 while investigating a routine trespassing case outside Lake Los Angeles. The park is about 100acres, and 3acres initially were developed in the 1990s as a grassy grass·y adj. grass·i·er, grass·i·est 1. Covered with or abounding in grass. 2. Resembling or suggestive of grass, as in color or odor. Adj. 1. area with picnic tables A picnic table (or sometimes a picnic bench) is a modified table with benches expressly for the purpose of eating a meal outdoors (picnicking). In the past, picnic tables were typically made of wood, but modern tables can be made out of anything from recycled plastic to , a small playground, horseshoe horseshoe, narrow plate, commonly of iron or steel, shaped to fit a horse's hoof and attached to the hoof by nailing it to the inner edge of the horny wall of the hoof. pits, restrooms and a parking lot. The second phase, completed in August, included construction of two lighted outdoor basketball courts, a lighted multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective field and baseball field, concrete walkways, landscaping, 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. improvements and additional parking. The gym and community building also will contain a multipurpose room, classroom, lobby area, restrooms, kitchen, and storage, custodial and utility rooms. Once the project is finished, parks and recreation department officials anticipate one-time start-up costs of about $25,000 for sports and safety equipment, furniture, office and classroom equipment, and maintenance supplies. karen.maeshiro@dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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