Nature Playground Coming to Weaver Park

City commissioners accepted a $200,000 check from the Dunedin Youth Guild for a future nature-themed playground at J.C. Weaver Park during Thursday's public hearing at City Hall.

Women from the Dunedin Youth Guild delivered a giant $200,000 check Thursday for a nature-themed playground coming to Weaver Park this summer. The playground will blend into the natural surroundings at J.C. Weaver Park, because all of its parts will "look like real pieces of nature," said Lanie Sheets, parks and recreation superintendant, at the Feb. 7 public hearing at City Hall. It will be built to reflect the trees, ants, caterpillars and butterflies that tend to capture children's imaginations. The surface underneath will be artificial grass. Artifical tree trunks will be used for a natural look, and children will even have "giant bird eggs to spin around in," Sheets said. It is also to be designed with accessibility in mind for …

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Weaver Park Playground Idea Receives Up to $200,000 Donation

City commissioners will weigh on accepting funds from the Dunedin Youth Guild for a future nature-themed playground at J.C. Weaver Park during Thursday's public hearing at City Hall.

A proposed playground at Dunedin's J.C. Weaver Park would be built to reflect the trees, ants, caterpillars and butterflies that capture children's imaginations. It would be designed with accessibility in mind for all disabilities. It would also have colorful, child-friendly signs teaching kids about the environment, and it blends into its natural surroundings, the city says.  And the Dunedin Youth Guild is ready to donate up to $200,000 to make it happen, according to Vince Gizzi, parks and recreation director. City leaders will weigh in on accepting the large donation Thursday, Feb. 7, at City Hall. According to city documents, the Dunedin Youth Guild received a large donation from Tom and Nan Moffatt and was looking for a project it saw…

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Dunedin Gives Back

Group Looks for Suggestions to Help Disabled

A citizen Americans with Disabilities Act group is hosting an informal talk on Saturday about how better to serve Dunedin's disabled. Free dessert and interpretive services for the hearing impaired are included.

  A committee that advises the city on accessibility issues for Dunedin's disabled wants to hear how it can help make life easier. Members of the Americans with Disabilities Act Advisory Committee invite the public to join them Saturday for some informal dessert and discussion at the Dunedin Community Center.  This group helped improve accessibility at the Post Office on County Road 1 a few years ago, said Joan McHale, committee member, and it is hoping to gain insight for making Dunedin's programs, services and buildings more accessible for people with disabilities. What to expect if you go? The meeting will then open to audience questions, comments and suggestions. Interpretive services have been arranged for the hearing impaired. Free …

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Krashtest Dumby

1:48 pm on Friday, January 27, 2012

Katie: unfortunately I'll be 1,079 miles from the meeting! Perhaps you could act as my proxy? :-) Just for fun, I took a quick gander at the City of Dunedin web site. While the site isn't a total loss (I've seen a LOT worse!), the site is FAR from "passing with flying colors" Section 508 standards that cover government-owned sites from an Accessibility point of view. There are 266 failures just …   more ›