{"id":9009,"date":"2018-08-31T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:19:37","slug":"second-phase-of-citys-nature-park-near-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9009","title":{"rendered":"Second Phase of City\u2019s Nature Park Near Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9015\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9015\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9015\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2002-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2002-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2002-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnathan Torres and his father Mario walk in front of the amphitheater at the city\u2019s Nature Park. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Construction of the city\u2019s Nature Park is moving along as Phase 2 of the project is nearing its completion.<\/p>\n<p>The city commission recently approved an action in which the Community Development Corp. allocated $229,000 to be spent on several areas, such as landscaping, an irrigation system and a sign that will give the park its own identity as a recreational place for people to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Mark Milum recommended approving the items, saying the construction phase of the park is about done.<\/p>\n<p>The funds are being invested in walking trails, removing invasive plant species, building an amphitheater, benches and picnic tables, water fountains and exercise stations.<\/p>\n<p>Other spending went into landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>A major effort went into buying native and drought tolerant trees and shrubs.<\/p>\n<p>Native species such as wild olive trees, yellow zaphora, blue mist, caelsafine Mexicana, Texas frog fruit, mulch and herbicides were bought planted and used in the landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a roadside sign was also purchased.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s actually a large boulder, that has the Los Fresnos Nature Park in big letters.<\/p>\n<p>Mario and his son Johnathan Torres said they have been using the park\u2019s trail since it was made available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason for people not to come here,\u201d Mario Torres said as the two walked along the trail on a day last week. \u201cNot too many cities have a beautiful park such as this one here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other action, the commission approved a memorandum of understanding with Los Fresnos school district to establish and maintain a coordinated program for enhancing emergency planning response in the event of critical situations.<\/p>\n<p>The commission also approved an updated version of the city\u2019s Police Department Police policy manual and the guidelines for the use of force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Construction of the city\u2019s Nature Park is moving along as Phase 2 of the project is nearing its completion. The city commission recently approved an action in which the Community Development Corp. allocated $229,000 to be spent on several areas, such as landscaping, an irrigation system and a sign that will give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","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=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9020,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions\/9020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}