Parks board gleans public input

Charlene Johnson, right, discusses the need for handicapped accessible trails with Chad Weinand, Bucher, Willis & Ratliff consultant, during a workshop held by the Nevada Parks Board to discuss the upcoming capitol improvement projects in the city parks. Johnson who is in a wheelchair currently has trouble getting to the ballfields to watch her grandson play ball. Several people attended the event. For example, Ernie Shindler and his wife Elaine talked to Jim Adams, architect, about a walking track at the new civic center during the workshop, held Friday at the community center. Adams said that designing the gymnasium in the new civic center to serve multiple purposes, like basketball and walkers at the same time, will be a challenge. He said that there are some new synthetic surfaces that can be used for basketball as well as stand up to other uses such as walking laps.