WEEKEND — Shane Park fundraiser set at Swain’s

PORT ANGELES — Members of the Shane Park Playground Committee will be stationed at Swain’s General Store at 602 E. First St., Port Angeles, on Saturday and Sunday for a bicycle raffle and fundraiser for the Shane Park playground campaign.

The committee is working with the city of Port Angeles to come up with the $130,000 needed to install a state-of-the-art play area at the west Port Angeles park.

The city has set aside $60,000 for the project. The committee has raised another $21,000 through a series of community fundraisers over the past year.

“I’m just in awe of the people that are doing these things for us,” said Janet Young, Shane Park Playground Committee president.

The park was named after Young’s son, Shane Fowler, who died at age 9 in 1973 in a construction mishap when the park was being built across from where Young still lives at 1331 W. Sixth St.

Volunteers will staff a table at Swain’s to raffle off a Baja mini bike and Mongoose trick bike. Brochures and fliers with information about the Shane Park community fundraising campaign will be available.

The committee will have a booth at the Clallam County Fair from Aug. 18 to 21. The Peninsula Dream Machines will hold a Shane Park benefit Sept. 25 at the park.

New playground

The new playground will be 111 feet by 57 feet and feature several slides, climbing areas, swings and a safety surface.

Port Angeles Parks and Streets Superintendent Corey Delikat recently showed Young where the new equipment would go.

“I was amazed,” said Young, who lives near the park.

“It’s going to be huge. There’s going to be 30 different features on the equipment.

“It’s going to be really, really nice. I’m just excited to get the kids over to play on it.”

Donations for the playground equipment, with checks made out to the Kiwanis Club, can be mailed to Shane Park Playground, P.O. Box 1064, Port Angeles, WA 98362.

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