Poll: Summer Nights Program Moving
Easton's Summer Nights Program could move from the West Ward to the South Side. What do you think?
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For the last several years, Easton's Summer Nights program has been a fixture of the West Ward's Centennial Park.
Run by the city's Weed & Seed program with the help of 50 different community groups, Summer Nights provides food, entertainment, education, and a safe place for West Ward children.
The program is expected to return again this year, but it could be in a different location.
Weed & Seed director Laura Accetta tells the Express-Times the Summer Nights program has outgrown the park, and needs a place with better bathroom and food storage options.
Her solution: Heil Park on the South Side. Kids -- and their parents, if they're under 13 -- would be bused to and from Heil for a nominal fee.
Mayor Sal Panto tells the paper he'll support Accetta's move, but says he thinks the program belongs in the West Ward, possibly at the Easton Area Community Center.
What do you think? Should Summer Nights stay in the West Ward, or will its move spark more of a connection between two Easton neighborhoods?
Take our poll, and tell us what you think in the comments.
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Centennial Park
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Easton Area Community Center
901 Washington St, Easton, PA
frank pintabone
7:40 am on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
I support the move to the Southside. However, not heil park, I think it should move to the neighborhood center. Its a large park and they can work with the neighborhood center for the bathrooms and food storage. Busing the westward children to heil was a great idea, but what about the Southside children that dont have transportation? You can bus the children from the WW to the neighborhood center and its in,a location that many Southside children can walk to.
Frank Pintabone