LAKEPORT – Westside Community Park is receiving a set of bleachers, a gift from the Lakeport Unified School District.

The school district recently donated the bleachers previously located at the high school baseball field to the Westside Community Park Committee, announced Dennis Rollins, chair of the Park Committee.  

The bleachers will be assembled in two five-row sections in Phase 2 of the park development, said Rollins.

“This will allow us to provide some seating at each of the baseball fields currently under construction,” Rollins said.   

The school district made the decision to donate the bleachers because they were not being used at the school’s fields.

Dave Norris, facilities director for Lakeport Unified School District, said the view from the bleachers had been obstructed by the construction of a new first-base dugout several years ago.

School district personnel and inmates from the Lake County Jail prepared the bleachers for removal.
Darryl Davis of Davis Fabrication & Ornamental Designs volunteered to cut the all-steel framework free and into sections which could be moved to the City of Lakeport’s Corporation Yard for storage.

Davis also will be involved in the assembly at the park site. The assembly is expected to take place in the late fall, following completion of backstops, dugouts and infields.

According to Rollins, the bleachers will be made to conform to current safety standards as a portion of the reconstruction process.

UCC Rental of Lakeport donated a trailer for use in moving the bleachers.  A group of seven volunteers was on hand to load them.

Westside Community Park is located off of Parallel Drive, behind the Kathy Fowler Auto Dealerships in Lakeport.  It is currently the site of soccer fields, a dog park and walking trail.

Grillin on the Green, the annual fundraising event for the park is scheduled for Aug. 4.

For more information about the park, call Rollins at 707-349-0969 or visit the Web site, www.westsidecommunitypark.org.