Community celebrates new Curtin Creek Community Park
CURTIN CREEK - Community members recently gathered to celebrate the new Curtin Creek Community Park, decades after it was first envisioned.
The park features the county's first lighted multi-sport/rugby field, public art, inclusive play areas, water and sand play, a reservable picnic shelter, trails with viewpoints of the Gaddis wetlands and Mount Hood, four lighted pickleball courts and a basketball/futsal court. The celebration included demonstrations by Vancouver West Soccer and the Clark County Rugby Club, activities by Vancouver Fire, a bird walk hosted by Vancouver Audubon and speeches from Rep. Stephanie McClintock, Sen. Adrian Cortes and Clark County Council Chair Sue Marshall. The speakers recognized those in attendance who made the park a reality, including the Curtin family, who owned the land before it was purchased by the city of Vancouver in 1999, the construction contractor, consulting engineer, public works project managers and former and present members of parks advisory groups. The ribbon was cut by Marshall.
"Parks are critical, as we develop," Marshall said. "This will be what makes our communities thrive," she said.
The property was purchased in 1999 via a partnership between the city of Vancouver and Clark County. Part of the property became the site of Vancouver Fire Station 7 and another portion was earmarked for a park.
Cortes remembered former parks advocate Florence Wager in his remarks, noting that they served on the parks advisory group that approved the purchase of the property in 1999.
"She would have a big smile seeing how we finally developed this piece of property into a community jewel," Cortes said.
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