Splashpad success story featured on website, regional brochure about accessbility
(Talk of the Town photo by Jennifer Zartman Romano) Although it is covered under several inches of snow, the bright colors of the Splashpad in Morsches Park seems to radiate fun. The Splashpad, certainly a local fundraising success story, has been featured on the Access to Recreation website and in a comprehensive brochure produced by that organization as an example of creating a recreational opportunity for all residents, regardless of disability, to utilize.
By Jennifer Zartman Romano
Buried under a layer of snow in Morsches Park, the Splashpad is continuing to bring smiles to local residents’ faces – even in the dreariness of winter!
Columbia City Parks Department director Mark Green is pleased to announce that Whitley County’s Splashpad has made the news on the Access to Recreation website, a site tracking the success stories of recreation projects throughout the Midwest that incorporate elements of design that allow greater accessibility to all members of the community – including the disabled.
Like the Splashpad, the Access to Recreation project was funded by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The Splashpad is also being featured in a comprehensive brochure created by Access to Recreation that covers the story of the local Splashpad from start to finish. The article in the brochure entitled “Case Studies and Lessons Learned: Big Splash in a Small Town” talks about the various people and entities who made the Splashpad possible, including the Whitley County Community Foundation, Leadership Whitley County, the Dekko Foundation and Steel Dynamics.
Click here and scroll to page 14 to read the article.