Kiwanis Methow Park hosting a community celebration Thursday
There’s going to be an end-of-cherry season community party at Kiwanis Methow Park on Thursday from 5-8 p.m., thanks to the efforts of a group of neighbors called the parque padrinos.
The celebration will include a cherry cook-off, a competition open to all community members to bring desserts or dishes based on cherries. The dishes can be sweet, savory or spicy. Also planned for the celebration is a cherry pit spit, a cherry poem and song contest, a wheelbarrow race, folk dancing featuring neighborhood kids and an exposition of piñatas and other art that the children have been working on. It’s fitting that the celebration will be held in the South Wenatchee park, since a large number of workers who are involved in the fruit industry live in the neighborhood.
Teresa Bendito, a Wenatchee Valley College student who is doing outreach work for The Trust for Public Land in the community effort to redevelop the park, is heading up the celebration. The parque padrinos, or godparents of the park, have started daily community events at the park focusing on education and culture, with a heavy emphasis on education and culture.
There is a strong sense of community in the South Wenatchee neighborhoods and the celebration is a great opportunity to connect with people in the community. I’m looking forward to it.
Teresa Bendito
