It’s Parks and Recreation Month in the City of Yorkton, so it makes sense to celebrate the city’s parks and the many things that people can do within them. That was the goal of the recent Party in the Park, hosted for the first time at the Ravine Ecological Reserve.
Lisa Washington with Community Development Parks and Recreation says that their goal with the party this year was to highlight different low or no-cost entertainment that people can have in the city’s parks. To that end, the city brought out inexpensive backyard games, information on how to safely go hunting, as well as getting the Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association to bring out information on the wildlife that can be found in the area. Ducks Unlimited and the Assiniboine Watership Stewardship Association brought information on what is within the park itself.
“We try to bring people into new parks to see what we do have, and take advantage of no cost recreation.”
Taking it to the Ravine Ecological Reserve was part of the goal of getting people into under-used parks in the city. Washington notes that there is some work that needs to be done in the setting, such as replacing the bridge that was damaged a few years ago, but that’s also part of the reason why it’s important that people know Ravine is there and available to use.
“It’s a beautiful setting, I think it’s not taken advantage of as much as it should be.”
