Officials Celebrate $210000 in State Assistance for Haverhill Parks and Recreation Areas - WHAV News

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City and authorities officials celebrated Friday the receipt of $210,000 successful fund earmarks for improvements and attraction astatine respective Haverhill parks.

The wealth was included successful the authorities fund pursuing advocacy by Sen. Barry R. Finegold, whose territory is being reconfigured to see Haverhill; Rep. Andy X. Vargas; and Sen. Diana DiZoglio with enactment by Reps. Linda Dean Campbell, Lenny Mirra and Christina A. Minicucci.

Finegold secured $100,000 for an hold of the Riverside Park way hold and $50,000 for improvements astatine the parkland adjacent to Lake Pentucket, much familiarly known arsenic Round Pond.

In addition, arsenic WHAV reported archetypal successful April, Vargas sought and won support to acceptable speech $50,000 for Gale Park to assistance wage for restoration of the park’s World War I monument, damaged viewing plaza and Spanish American warfare monument sanction plates; physique accessible walkways; and regenerate the park’s breached h2o fountain.

As WHAV reported archetypal past June, DiZoglio secured $10,000 from a $1.6 cardinal supplemental authorities fund oregon the attraction of the city’s caller Vietnam Veterans Memorial astatine Mill Brook Park.

In a connection posted to societal media, Mayor James J. Fiorentini said, “Grants and earmarks let america to bash things to amended our prime of beingness that we conscionable can’t spend to bash successful our regular budget.”

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