Story Created:
Feb 25, 2010 at 12:21 PM PST
Story Updated:
Feb 25, 2010 at 12:21 PM PST
HUNTINGTON PARK — Chapter 221 of the American Association of Retired People will conduct bingo games as a fundraiser three days a week at the Huntington Park Community Center, 6925 Salt Lake Ave.
Parks and Recreation Director Josette Espinosa said bingo will be conducted by the senior citizen group from noon to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The recently completed community center can accommodate up to 150 in its main hall, Espinosa said.
Police and fire officials have approved that use for the facility, she added.
In other recreation action, the City Council Feb. 16 allocated $95,000 to the Los Angeles Unified School District as the city’s contribution for the relocation of Raul Perez Memorial Park in a land swap in which part of the district’s new South Regional High School No. 7 will get the current 3.5-acre park site as part of the 12-acre school project.
School officials have said they plan to start work this spring. Completion would take a couple of years.
Espinosa said the school district will pick up most of the cost of the $3.8 million project to relocate the park to a 4.5-acre site just north of the planned high school.
She said the district has requested that the city pay the $95,000 because it has asked for a community center at the new site 40 percent larger than the current one on Gage.
During the school construction on the Gage site and completion of the new park, the city has leased facilities at nearby Middleton Elementary School, 6537 Malabar St., for programs formerly held at the former park site.
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