Kyle Parks & Recreation
by KERRY URBANOWICZ
Are you ready for the holidays? The staff of your Kyle Parks Department started putting out the city’s decorations the first day of November. The last piece was put in place a few hours before Santa flipped the switch and lit all the lights on November 30. The large wreaths on the Kyle City Hall and the lit garland around the street lamp posts are the first things you notice when you drive into downtown.
At City Square Park, the Historic Kyle City Hall is wrapped in a string of lights with wreaths over the doorways. The children like to drive through downtown to see how many ‘days to go’ on the large count-down display. The city tree is located this year in the center of City Square Park as staff anticipated renovation work to begin last month on the Kyle Train Depot. (Maybe we can ask Santa for a new city tree to place near the train depot next year.) The public is welcome to go by the city tree and take family pictures for cards and letters.
Next time you come inside Kyle City Hall, stop and smile in front of the 20 foot tall fully decorated tree. Hope and Love 4 Kids have placed cards on the tree of angels you can adopt for the holidays. Please come by early and often and sign out an angel this year. What better way to share the true meaning of Christmas with your family?
More of the decorations would have been placed around town if only we had more electrical plugs. Two park development projects in the works promise to have more plugs for next year. The new Kyle Park Headquarters being built at Lake Kyle will have enough plugs that we can start our own version of a trail with lights in 2012. All the lights and decorations will remain up until the middle of January.
2012 will kick off with a splash at the Kyle Pool. On Sunday, January 1, 2012, at 1 p.m., you are invited to splash, or watch others splash, as the Polar Bears Splash around and welcome in the New Year. Join the Polar Bear Club while you are there.
Finally, when you are finished with your real Christmas tree and you are looking for a place to drop it off, the three city parks (Gregg-Clarke, Steeplechase and Waterleaf) have drop-off locations set up. These retired trees will find a new home as trail mulch. With many miles of nature trails being developed this winter by the crews of your Kyle Parks and Recreation Department, we need all the trees you can bring us. Details of this program and all events and programs through Kyle PARD can be found at www.kylepard.com.
From all of us to all of you, Happy Holidays!
