At Monday’s board meeting, Gettysburg Area Recreational Authority (GARA) Executive Director Erin Peddigree said the Gettysburg Adams Kiwanis club had donated $1,000 to GARA for playgrounds.
In terms of the budget, Peddigree said GARA was “right on track with last year.”
Peddigree said baseball and softball continued in the park, and that Weikert Field would be painted this week.
Peddigree said the park would install new lighting to make the Sterner building parking lot brighter at night.
Board President Steve Niebler said that after talking to an expert he was “more positive” about the ability to repair the amphitheater tile mural. Niebler said he would ask the local Optimist Club to help contribute to the cost of repairing the amphitheater roof as part of the repair work.
Peddigree said the rec park would be hosting a crafts show with food trucks and kids’ activities during the Gettysburg Christmas Festival.
Peddigree said that all of the annual rec park events were expected to continue into next year and that with the Farmer’s Market also coming, “2023 is already pretty full.”
Peddigree said she was applying for grants to repair the restrooms, sponsor music in the park, and maintain the park’s restrooms.
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