Ligonier Beach Park: Risk of summer season actions at former swimming pool website

Ligonier Beach Park alongside Route 30 might be the location of an oldies dance, yoga courses, dance classes and a kickball match this summer season, as among the many first actions at Ligonier Township’s new park.

“It is a community park. We want the community to take advantage of it,” mentioned Melissa Eller, who heads the Ligonier Beach committee of Ligonier Township’s recreation board.

Eller, who was president of the volunteer group Friends of Ligonier Beach, mentioned Tuesday that they committee is open to options from the neighborhood for actions.

The pavilion that is still from the outdated Ligonier Beach might be the location of these actions. The oldies dance can be paying homage to the oldies dances held at Ligonier Beach when it was working, Eller mentioned.

Eller informed the township supervisors the committee is working to acquire estimates on moveable bathrooms and set up of a post-and-rail fence on the property.

The supervisors mentioned {that electrical} service shall be put in by a contractor to supply energy to the pavilion, for gratis to the township.

Supervisor Wade Stoner pledged he would pay {the electrical} invoice for energy to Ligonier Beach for the rest of the yr. Supervisor Dan Resnic mentioned there needs to be lighting on the property for security functions, in addition to to discourage any vandalism.

It can be good to supply lighting for the pavilion, Eller mentioned.

A gaggle volunteers proceed to work on cleansing up the property, Eller mentioned. Heavy gear was used to clear the location of brush and outdated timber and different particles this spring, adopted by a volunteer cleanup effort.

The township supervisors Tuesday additionally cleared the best way for putting in moveable bathrooms on the website by passing a revised ordinance which eradicated restrictive language that banned moveable bathrooms inside a sure distance from a public sewage line.

The township shall be getting more cash for work related to growing Ligonier Beach right into a leisure space — will probably be receiving 50% reimbursement from a $100,000 examine on Ligonier Beach, mentioned Michael Strelic, township supervisor. The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources was concerned within the funding the event of a grasp plan for Ligonier Beach. That examine was accomplished this spring.

Once the township receives the $50,000 from the state, the cash shall be added to the remaining $22,000 of the $250,000 grant from the Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation of Latrobe. That 2019 grant was used to amass the property, which had been mired in chapter court docket in Pittsburgh, and to assist pay for a community-based planning course of to find out the leisure wants of the neighborhood.

In a latest letter to the township supervisors, the muse restated that its grant was not for use for growing and sustaining the property.