Kids and families in the West Ward neighborhood officially have a new place to play.
The City of Easton held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the redesigned and renovated Vanderveer Park at the corner of 11th and Spring Garden streets in Easton. The park received a full revamp, with a double swing set, a multi-piece play structure, a natural play area with stepping posts, tunnels, boulders, a pavilion, plants and a paved toddler bicycle path.
The project began around February, and it cost $345,000.
Easton’s Mayor Sal Panto Jr. said at the ceremony that Crayola contributed $100,000 to the project. Marta JeBran, Director of Government and Community affairs at Crayola, said she grew up in the West Ward a few blocks away from Vanderveer Park.
She said it was a parking lot at the time, but it is a place that holds memories…