By KARA O’NEIL
Staff writer
The new Hasson Park playground in Oil City is open for business after volunteers finished building it Saturday.
A number of volunteers worked with professionals from Snider Recreation of Ohio from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to put together the playground.
“It has been inspected and is ready for the kids — just in time for the YWCA summer playground program,” Kelly Ryen, the Oil City community development director, said.
Ryen also expressed her appreciation of the efforts by all those who participated in the community build.
Oil City received a $70,000 grant from the Samuel Justus Trust to renovate the large playground in Hasson Heights. The previous playground was 36 years old, Ryen said.
Hasson Park was created when a 48-acre parcel of land was deeded over to the citizens of Oil City on Oct. 2, 1895, by Capt. William Hasson, a prominent local businessman and philanthropist.
