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My BackYard Playground enhancements planned
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Great Bend High School students will help install additional hardwood mulch next month at the My BackYard playground, Great Bend Recreation Commission board members learned Monday.The mulch has been purchased from Athco LLC, GBRC Executive Director Diann Henderson said. It is scheduled to arrive a day or two before GBHS’s Community Volunteer Day on April 27.Henderson has also released specs for a water fountain that she hopes can be installed at the playground by May 1.The board also learned that eight new aluminum backless benches for the dugout areas will be installed at youth baseball and softball fields this spring.“We inspect them every year,” Henderson said. Fields receiving new benches are Westfall (two fields), Brit Spaugh South and Veterans West.