Thursday, August 26, 1999
$214,000 goes for rec projects
State grants help out four towns
BY LEW MOORES
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The state will help pay for park restrooms in Glendale, a tot lot in Lincoln Heights, a playground in Kennedy Heights, and a playground and jogging path in Amberley Village.
NatureWorks grants are coming from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for the fifth year in a row.
The department awarded $3.5 million in NatureWorks grants around the state this year, about $214,000 in Hamilton County.
Glendale
Walter Cordes, village administrator of Glendale, said the heavily used Lake Park has new soccer and baseball fields and needs a restroom.
A Glendale architect will help village engineers design the restroom, which will cost about $53,000. A NatureWorks grant will pay for almost $42,000 of the cost.
Mr. Cordes would like to see the project get started this fall and completed by next spring. The restroom will be designed to blend in with the landscape, Mr. Cordes said.
“So it looks like it's always been there,” he said. “We want the restroom to look like it was built 50 years ago.”
Lincoln Heights
Lincoln Heights will use a NatureWorks grant for more than $25,000 to build a tot lot, although village officials have not settled where it will be.
Maxine Stevenson, administrative assistant to Village Manager Herman Dantzler, said the grant will help pay for a $33,000 project to build a tot lot either at a Lindy Avenue location or another one.
The tot lot playground would include equipment such as seesaws, swings, benches, and a play airplane, car and motorcycle. “There is a need for that kind of play area,” Ms. Stevenson said.
The village has not determined when the project might start or be completed, but Ms. Stevenson said it should be sometime in 2000.
“It's very helpful,” she said of the grant. “While we do have money, we don't have enough to do all the things we want to do.”
Kennedy Heights
Doug Fraser, a landscape architect with the Cincinnati Park Board, said they will use their grant of almost $80,000 for improvements to Drake Park in Kennedy Heights.
“We want to make it more of an all-purpose family area,” Mr. Fraser said. The project will cost about $100,000 and include improvements to walkways and trails, play equipment, a children's playground and landscaping.
Mr. Fraser said they probably would not have been able to go through with the project without NatureWorks' help.
Construction is expected to begin next summer, with completion in late fall.
Amberley Village
Amberley Village was awarded a grant for more than $67,000 to build a playground and pave a jogging path.
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