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Community celebrates Castleberg Park improvements, reopening
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The Riverbank Parks & Recreation Department recently celebrated the reopening of Castleberg Park playground, part of an overall upgrading of the facility over the past months. Mayor Rachel Hernandez, along with council members Luis Uribe and Stacy Call, helped a number of neighborhood children with the July 31 ribbon cutting. Ric McGinnis/The News

The Riverbank Parks and Recreation Department hosted a grand reopening of the playground at Castleberg Park this past week.

Mayor Rachel Hernandez, council members Luis Uribe and Stacy Call joined city staff members along with a number of neighborhood youngsters in holding a ribbon cutting in front of the newly installed equipment, on Thursday, July 31.

The mayor and council members were joined by Parks staff and neighborhood parents and their youngsters in cutting the ribbon.

A number of city staff members were on hand as well.

The new park equipment is state-of-the-art, including having shade structures over the playground, plastic slides, and rubberized ground mats instead of the old bark ground coverings.

This upgrade is just one part of the city’s renovation of its existing parks, as well as updated standards for newer parks being built around town.

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On Thursday, July 31, after the ribbon cutting of the grand re-opening ribbon, Mayor Rachel Hernandez, right, and Councilman Luis Uribe, with his daughter, try out the newly installed playground equipment at Castleberg Park. Ric McGinnis/The News