{"id":10838,"date":"2019-10-04T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2019-10-04T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:22:41","slug":"beachgoers-to-spend-more-money-at-county-coastal-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10838","title":{"rendered":"Beachgoers to Spend More Money at County Coastal Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10839\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10839\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IBP-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IBP-pix.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IBP-pix-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IBP-pix-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IBP-pix-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new look at Isla Blanca Park after it went through some major improvements. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Going to any of Cameron County public beaches is soon going to be a little more expensive starting this Tuesday, Oct 1.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners\u2019 court has approved new fees for admission to Isla Blanca, Andy Bowie and Atwood parks on South Padre Island.<\/p>\n<p>The increases apply to the coastal parks so the Adolph Thomae Park in Arroyo City is exempted.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicular daily fee will go from $10 to $12 whereas a 30-day pass will cost $30, up from $25.<\/p>\n<p>The annual pass will remain the same at $100.<\/p>\n<p>Those serving or who have served in the Armed Forces will pay half for both the monthly and annual permits and $5 for a day pass.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners approved the increases during Tuesday\u2019s, Sept. 17 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The increases were approved to pay for maintenance, for acquiring new equipment and because of the improvements made to the beach parks, particularly at Isla Blanca Park.<\/p>\n<p>Sofia Benavides, commissioner with the county\u2019s Precinct 2, called the increases justifiable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt costs money to maintain these parks,\u201d she said. \u201cThere has been a lot of improvements made and still are \u2013 all of which are for the benefit of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Going to any of Cameron County public beaches is soon going to be a little more expensive starting this Tuesday, Oct 1. The commissioners\u2019 court has approved new fees for admission to Isla Blanca, Andy Bowie and Atwood parks on South Padre Island. The increases apply to the coastal parks so the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}