The municipality has allocated funds for upgrades to a baseball field in the community.
At the Summerland council meeting on June 17, council allocated $185,000 in matching funds for upgrades to Living Memorial Field 2.
The funding from the municipality includes $100,000 to be allocated from the Electrical Capital Reserve and $85,000 to be allocated by removing the Natural Areas Management Strategy to match the Urban Forest Strategy projects from the financial plan.
The amount from the municipality matches funding of $185,000 from a Blue Jays Cares Grant to the Summerland Minor Baseball Association.
A fundraising initiative for the field began in early January, following the death of Hendriks Jon Taylor, a baseball player who had died last summer at the age of 16. He had been living with a brain tumour before his death.
香蕉视频直播淗endriks loved playing baseball at Living Memorial Park in Summerland, B.C., alongside his younger brother, with their dad as the coach,香蕉视频直播� his mother Melissa Taylor said in the GoFundMe message.
The fundraising initiative for this project has raised almost $82,000.
A suggestion has been made to rename the field as Field 96, the number Taylor wore while playing. However, this proposed change will go to the Summerland Legion first.
Living Memorial Park was built in 1948. That park and Memorial Park in Summerland were created as a way to honour those who had been killed in military service.
