INC NEWS - your parks' grass

[Richard Mullinax]

Randy you mean City Parks are supposed to have grass? Old North Durham 
Park is a fairly dry dirt field until it rains and then there is some 
sticky stuff. The edges have some grass, but the rest has not recovered 
from the wonderful restoration of our fine General Services Department.

They dumped fill from some place like the old Data site downtown, to 
hump the field and get it where it did not hold water. Then they came 
out and removed the debris that was visible. It is sad that more 
continues to surface. I have personally removed window glass, concrete, 
bricks, and street fill grade gravel from the site, as well as rubber 
trim stuff. If this were private property and a independant contractor 
we could get restotution for the gross treatment of the playing surface. 
This is a soccer field where kids do fall and roll on the ground!

I only dream that they will reseed in the fall and that is why OND park 
did not show up on the new Bonds list. My hope is that this playing 
field will get a covering of the great compost that is piled at the City 
transfer station before the grass seed is left there.I have been asked 
to trust them and that is what I am doing, but it is not fun or easy.

I do wish there was a better system of looking at all the parks and 
getting all on the same level of service.

Richard Mullinax
Old North Durham