Peter McIntyre Friday, 26 June 2009 107.5 KISSFM:Making Polson Park more accessible to families is a main priority for Vernon city council.Council members held a visioning session in the park today with their ideas being forwarded to the Greater Vernon Advisory Committee. Councillor Patrick Nicol would like to see a community policing office in the park, to make it safer. "There's the perception is not as safe as it might be. I think if you're going to reclaim it for the families that's one of the first things you're going to have to do if find a way to increase the level of activity in terms of supervision." NORD's manager of Parks, Al McNiven says the councillors would like to see things like an ice rink, trails, and a larger water park. "There's a bunch of ideas and you've got to start putting those on paper to see if they fit, and that's going to tell the story in the end, whether you can take all that stuff and make it fit in the space." Other ideas were for a trail around the park's perimeter, an outdoor ice rink, a putting green, another tennis court and an expanded kids playground and water park. The century old park has been in limbo since the grandstands burned down in 2006.
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