RESIDENTS, USERS TO AIR VIEWS ON UPGRADE OF VAL VERDE PARK.Byline: Mary Mary, the mother of Jesus Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos). Her name is the Hebrew Miriam. Schubert Daily News Staff Writer What a difference two years can make. Back in 1995, there was talk of closing Val Verde Val Verde may mean:
Last fall, voters approved Proposition A, a $319 million Los Angeles County bond measure. The initiative set aside $675,000 to make upgrades at Val Verde Park. At 7 p.m., county parks officials will hold a public meeting in the park auditorium auditorium Portion of a theater or hall where an audience sits, as distinct from the stage. The auditorium originated in the theaters of ancient Greece, as a semicircular seating area cut into a hillside. , 30300 W. Arlington St., to solicit input from local residents and park users. The 57.5-acre park has a swimming pool, baseball diamond, basketball and tennis courts, 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, a picnic area, playground Playground - A visual language for children, developed for Apple's Vivarium Project. OOPSLA 89 or 90? and restrooms. But much of the grounds date to the 1930s, when Val Verde Park was built by the Depression-era Work Projects Administration. County parks officials have some ideas on what needs work, but they want to involve the public in the decision, said James McCarthy
Bishop James F. McCarthy (born July 9, 1942) was an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of New York, who resigned from his parish assignment , a project coordinator for the county Department of Parks and Recreation. Val Verde Park is the centerpiece of the community, and as its only recreation spot, the park is pretty heavily used. McCarthy said the picnic areas, baseball field, parking lot and restrooms haven't been refurbished in recent memory. ``We need to find out what the community thinks is the priority and what would best serve their needs,'' McCarthy said. Once the community compiles its wish list, county officials will come up with cost estimates on the work to determine just how many improvements can be made for $675,000. Next, planners would have to take the ideas to a design engineer to draw up the plans, after which the project would be put out to bid. It could be next fall by the time construction is complete. ``If we can't have it done within a year, we want to have it done by the following summer,'' McCarthy said. Funding from a 1992 county parks bond measure allocated $750,000 to Val Verde Park; the money was used to build a new bathhouse next to the park's Olympic-size swimming pool. Decades ago, Val Verde Park and the community that grew up around it were havens for African-Americans who, due to segregationist seg·re·ga·tion·ist n. One that advocates or practices a policy of racial segregation. seg  re·ga practices, weren't allowed to swim in public pools. The community was built by real estate developer Harry Waterman as a retreat for African-Americans who were barred from beaches, parks and other public places. The county applied to the federal government in 1935 for funding to develop the park; the pool opened in 1939 and the tennis courts a decade later. |
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