{"id":208068,"date":"2016-06-21T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=208068"},"modified":"2018-09-08T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:41:00","slug":"kids-korner-ribbon-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/kids-korner-ribbon-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Leesburg Kids Korner Ribbon Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>The City of Leesburg has invited the public and the media to join them in celebrating the completion of Kids Korner at a ribbon cutting ceremony. The ceremony will be held at the new location of the state-of-the-art park in Venetian Gardens on July 1 at 10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Leesburg&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Public information officer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_information_officer\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Public Information Officer<\/a>, Derek Hudson, released a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Press release\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Press_release\" rel=\"wikipedia\">press release<\/a> Tuesday morning announcing the ceremony. In the press release, officials state that Kids Korner marks the <em>&#8220;first major milestone of a multi-phased <\/em>project<em>&#8220;<\/em> aimed to enhance <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rogers Park, Chicago\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.01,-87.67&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=42.01,-87.67 (Rogers%20Park%2C%20Chicago)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\">Rogers Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Construction on the park began back in April with the removal of the old wooden playground structure and pavilion at Roger&#8217;s Park. The new GameTime <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Playground\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Playground\" rel=\"wikipedia\">playground equipment<\/a>\u00a0installations began starting in the middle of May and is expected to be completed by June 24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The plan for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/kids-corner\/\">multi-phased Venetian Gardens project<\/a> was approved by City Commission after holding several workshops and getting positive feedback from Leesburg locals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhile it may have been a bit sad for kids who were not able to enjoy the playground during its construction, it is exciting to build a playground that is going to blow their minds,\u201d said Mayor Jay Hurley. \u201cNow that this phase is about complete, everyone can see our vision for Venetian Gardens coming to fruition \u2014 a vision to bring back Venetian Gardens as the Jewel of Leesburg and enhance the quality of life for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more information on Kids Korner renovations and other Venetian Gardens enhancements, contact the City of Leesburg\u2019s Public Information Office at 352-728-9786, extension 1121 or at derek.hudson@leesburgflorida.org.<\/p>\n<p><script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0The City of Leesburg has invited the public and the media to join them in celebrating the completion of Kids Korner at a ribbon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[63,79,80,82,455,484,432],"class_list":["post-208068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-grand-opening","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-leesburg","tag-ribbon-cutting-ceremony","tag-rogers-park","tag-venetian-gardens","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/kids-corner-computer-rendition-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}