Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Looking to replace third baseline at Ross Wells

Number of projects needing funding in 2014 for parks and recreation

Jody Hauta, director of parks and recreation, details
some of the requests of his department at the
Jan. 20, 2014 capital budget meeting at city hall.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Pending budget approval, the second phase of bleacher replacement at Ross Wells Park will take place in 2014.

“We’re in the process of replacing the third baseline here we’re working on right now. The first baseline will be the other section that’ll be replaced as well,” said Jody Hauta, director of parks and recreation. “Then there will be the grandstand, which will be a bigger ticket item.”

The bleacher system has been in place since 1996 and are beginning to “rot and decay,” according to Hauta’s report. The old wooden bleachers will be replaced with aluminum.

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