PORT ANGELES — The Shane Park Playground Committee raised $1,662 toward the installation of new playground equipment during a bowling party at Laurel Lanes on May 5, committee chairwoman Janet Young said.
The committee and its supporters now have raised about $53,000 to go along with the city of Port Angeles’ $81,000 investment in a state-of-the-art play set for the park in west Port Angeles.
The disassembled equipment was shipped to a city storage site in April.
It will remain there until the committee can raise the $12,000 it needs to pay for the remaining concrete and rubber safety tiles that will protect children playing on the 6,000-square-foot apparatus.
Highlights of the play set include an upside-down merry-go-round, climbing walls, multiple slides and swings.
The equipment will be installed in two phases: first, the bulk of the play set, then the upside-down “Neutron Spinner” and swings.
Port Angeles Parks and Streets Superintendent Corey Delikat has said he expects both phases to be completed by the end of the summer.
The bowling party was just the latest in a long list of Shane Park fundraisers, including dinner parties, breakfast socials, bunco dice games and a 24-hour pickleball marathon.
The committee has held several bowling parties at Laurel Lanes so far this year.
“Thank you to Vern and Claudia [Elkhart] of Laurel Lanes for making these events so much fun,” Young said.
“And to Anthony Charles Trucking for sponsoring it.”
The next committee
fundraiser will be a salmon dinner featuring Elaine Grinnell, the renowned Jamestown S’Klallam storyteller and tribal elder, at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 W. Fourth St. in Port Angeles, on June 9.
The Saturday evening dinner will include a silent auction and live painting by local artist John Richenbacher.
Storytelling will begin at 4 p.m., with dinner served at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $8 for kids 4 to 12. Children younger than 3 are admitted free.
Tickets can be purchased at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St.; Necessities and Temptations gift shop, 217 N. Laurel St.; Odyssey Bookshop, 114 W. Front St.; and the Peninsula Daily News, 305 W. First St.
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