Westside Community Park

On Friday, July 13, 2012, materials were delivered to the park site for the construction of two baseball dugouts.  Construction will begin on Friday, July 20.  This project is a joint effort of the Lakeport Rotary Club and the Kiwanis Club of Lakeport.

Darryl Davis of Davis Fabrication & Ornamental Designs cuts the bleachers for moving.

Thanks to a donation from the Lakeport Unified School District the two baseball fields under development will have bleachers.  Read Story

Mowers; Rollins, Rumfelt, Barnes and Ustrud

Phase 2 had its first mowing on Thursday, November 17, 2011.  The grass was 8 inches tall in many places.  Four mowers completed the task in about 1 1/2 hours.  Thanks to Ken Barnes, Lakeport City Councilperson, Bob Rumfelt, Cindy Ustrud and Dennis Rollins.  Also, a thank you to Larry Wise for loaning his mower.

Jim operates the trencher while Larry checks the depth.

Last week (August 29) under the direction of Larry Wise, 600 feet of electrical conduit was laid.  This connects the parks service pole to a new subpanel.  When completed the irrigation system will have power and circuits for future use will be available.

The City of Lakeport delivered irrigation pipe from winter storage.

Today Jim Holmes joined the crew to operate the trencher.  The City of Lakeport delivered the pipe from the City Yard.  The Committee had stored it there for the winter.  Larry and Dennis laid close to 2000 feet of it along the new trenches.

Ready for assembly.

On Wednesday five more people will begin the process of cutting, gluing and assembling the pipes, valves and sprinklers that make up the irrigation system.  This will take several days.  This group was provided and will be supevised by Floritino Vazquez.

The Westside Community Park Committee owes thanks to all who work on the project.  The Committee is truly appreciative of Larry Wise.  Without his knowledge and countless hours of volunteering the current project would not be possible.

Norman Stewart of Ruzicka & Associates surveys access road.

Ruzicka and Associates, long time supports of the Park, recently completed grade staking of the Phase 2 access road.  This work was one more donation in a long list of donations provided by Cliff and Nancy Ruzicka.  The road will now have dirt removed and grading completed to establish the subgrade for future development.  The removed dirt will be used to complete the filling of the north end of the playing field.

Idle equipment continues to wait for the ground to dry out on July 5, 2011.

RB Peters Construction began the final bit of grading on Tuesday, July 5.  Work had to stop before the end of the day because the ground is TOO WET.  It was July 5th and the temperature was close to 100 degrees but the ground a couple of feet deep is still to wet to work.  Equipment was getting stuck and proper compaction could not be accomplished do to the level of moisture in the dirt.  Another attempt was made today, Friday, July 7, with the same results.  Maybe Monday will be better.