Volunteers aim to restore and beautify Wick Park

YOUNGSTOWN — If you’ve been to Wick Park lately, you likely have noticed the freshly planted and mulched rows of flowers near each of the park’s four corners.

Members of Youngstown CityScape were largely responsible for the plantings earlier this month, and the new additions are a segue to bigger changes and improvements to come for the park, some city and community leaders say. CityScape is a grassroots organization dedicated to the revitalization of Youngstown.

Ideas to restore and beautify the space were at the heart of Saturday’s two-hour Wick Park Revitalization Community Design Workshop at Park Vista Retirement Community, 1216 Fifth Ave. on the city’s North Side.

The park is surrounded by Elm Street as well as Fifth, Broadway and Park avenues.

Between 50 and 60 people attended the session, set up to provide updates on progress related to the park, and to give participants an opportunity to voice what they feel will be essential to its well being and vitality.

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