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Photo by Jessica Keller The Seattle Center campus in Uptown is awash with holiday lights throughout the month of December. There are also a number of activities for people of all ages, many of them free. Go to https://seattlecenter.com/events/featured-events/winterfest.
Big Howe ballfield lights project highlights communication difficulties with Parks
By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor A Queen Anne ballfield project previously delayed by the Seattle Parks & Recreation Department is back on the docket and with it a host of difficulties. Seattle Parks & Recreation announced last year the project to replace the lights at the Big Howe ballfields had been delayed because of COVID-19 and budgetary cutbacks. At the December Queen Anne Community Council meeting, Parks Committee Chairman Don Harper reported that the project was back on but won’t take place in late winter like it was initially planned. Instead, construction will begin in the spring of 2022, likely in May. During the construction, which will take three to four months to complete — throughout the summer and into early fall — the ballfields will be closed, he said. This is problematic, said Tom Koerick, out-going president for Queen Anne Little League, because those fields at Big Howe are used for baseball, softball and soccer games beginning in early spring and throughout the
Photo by Jessica Keller After being delayed for a year, the Parks Department plans to move ahead with replacSEE BALLFIELDS, PAGE 2 ing the existing aged lights at the Big Howe ballfields in Queen Anne next spring.
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