Silver Cliff Community Fun Day celebrates playground grand reopening, 5k run, pickleball, Bobapalooz and extra this weekend! – Wet Mountain Tribune

This Saturday, August 29, there are two occasions scheduled that can showcase the positive new work carried out on city parks in Silver Cliff and Westcliffe: the Silver Cliff Community Park Fun Day, and “Bobapalooza” on the bandstand in Jess Price Park.

The Silver Cliff Community Park will provide a full day of enjoyable actions and meals, together with a ribbon-cutting for the brand-new playground gear, made potential partly by a beneficiant grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO). That new gear will make it the primary utterly ADA-compliant playground in Custer County. GOCO representatives can be available for the ribbon-cutting at 10:30, however that’s solely one of many actions deliberate for the day. Events kick off at 9 a.m. with a 5k enjoyable run, and at 9:15 for a 2-mile stroll. Registration for these occasions begins at 8:30 a.m.

After that, starting at 11 a.m., actions embody pickleball, volleyball, and “horse basketball” tournaments. (Alas, horse basketball, for these of you unfamiliar with the time period, will not be performed on horseback: Deputy Town Clerk Wendy Stroup, in reply to our queries, tells us “it’s a classic basketball shooting game where players take turns inventing and copying trick shots. If a player makes a shot, every other player must copy it or get a letter. Spelling out HORSE will get you eliminated!”

Food choices embody sizzling canines and hamburgers, with the CattleWomen’s Association serving to out city employees, together with Mayor Buck Wenzel, with the grilling and serving.

Wenzel stated that renovations to the Park’s pickleball courts and ballfields are coming subsequent. “It was a collective effort on the programming for the day,” he famous: “It’s taken us ten years to get to this point with the park and playground renovations, so it’s really cause for celebration!”

Later on Saturday, over in Westcliffe, comes “Bobapalooza.” One of the Wet Mountain Valley’s most beloved musicians, Bob Reed, handed away lately. In addition to his musical expertise, Bob was identified for his heat and inspiring approach of welcoming new musicians into the fold right here within the Valley.

In his reminiscence, native musicians are volunteering to carry out in “Bobapalooza,” a free live performance for the neighborhood that can honor Bob’s legacy and assist younger aspiring musicians. It begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 29, in Jess Price Park in Westcliffe, and options acts resembling Accidentally Blue, Tim Goo, and the Stephanie Barry Jazz Project, amongst others. The live performance may even function a charity occasion to learn the Custer County High School music program.

“We want this event to do more than remember Bob — we want it to help the next generation of young musicians grow and thrive,” stated Bob’s spouse, Carolyn Reed.

There can also be a GoFundMe to assist these fundraising efforts. Already greater than $3,000 has been raised for the music program in Bob’s identify. Here is the fundraiser hyperlink:

– Elliot Jackson