Lights are coming to the Culver City Dog Park.
A jubilant Vicki Daly Redholtz, longtime President of Friends of the Dog Park, reported the news last evening.
“We have been working for the last several years to raise money for lights in the Dog Park, and now we have negotiated with a good neighbor – whom we won’t name now – who is going to donate the lights. They are valued at between $50,000 and $60,000.”
That is not all.
“The Friends of the Dog Park are going to donate $35,000 to empower the lights,” Ms. Daly Redholtz said.
Speaking to the newspaper in Council Chambers before the start of the City Council meeting, she said that at next week’s meeting, the Council members will be voting on acceptance of both gifts.
Construction is scheduled to be completed “definitely before the end of the year.”
The one-acre Dog Park opened in April 2006, thanks to the perspicacity of a c ore of dog owners who were determined to overcome a series of impediments that would have discouraged others.
In the past six years, Ms. Daly Redholtz said, the popular destination has enjoyed a passel of upgrades, including trees, benches, overhead shade structures, bulletin boards and fencing.
“We received a grant from the County that covered some of those improvements,” she said. “Virtually the whole park was paid for by sponsors, many of them individuals.”
Currently, the Dog Park is open from dawn until dusk. With the onset of lights, it probably will be open until the lower levels of Culver City Park closes.
“We know that thousands of people a month use the park,” Ms. Daly Redholtz said. “They come from all over – from other states, other counties and other cities. I know that because we get phone calls who say they will be visiting and how do they get to the park.”
Ms. Daly Redholtz may be contacted at vicki-dr@ca.rr.com
