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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new aquatic activity center for Mobile residents.
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The celebration will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday May 22, at Crawford-Murphy Park, 351 South Ann Street in Mobile. The new splashpad will offer families in the Oakleigh, Leinkauf and Maysville neighborhoods a way to cool off from the summer heat. It will include river-based scenery and decorations, including an alligator head, a frog, turtle, and tall reeds that all spray water. At the center of the design are fish tail shaped tipping buckets. The splashpad was created as part of a partnership between the Mobile Parks and Recreation Department and Aiker Construction, who worked to convert a disused wading pool into a “vibrant spray ground.”
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This is the ninth splashpad added to an MPRD facility in the last several years…