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New Park Opens West of Delray Beach

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The new West Delray Regional Park opened on October 19 after years of planning and preparation.

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Burt Aaronson

As Commissioner Burt Aaronson noted at the opening dedication ceremony, it also came to pass because of the hard work of a great many people.

He especially singled out the vital role played by the three homeowner association umbrella organizations, whose names will soon appear on a huge plaque at the park’s entrance. They are the Alliance of Delray Residential Associations, The Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations and the West Boca Community Council.

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The 314-acre park offers a canoe/kayak launching area, a remote control airplane field, a remote control boat lake, a primitive camping area, a mountain bike area and a hiking/nature trail. Several ceremony speakers offered first hand testimony of the great fishing to be found in the park’s lakes.

The land for the new park was previously owned by the Palm Beach Downs horse-training center. It is located on West Atlantic Avenue about a mile west of 441.

Aaronson took the occasion to laud the Palm Beach County leadership of County Administrator Bob Weisman and Parks Director Dennis Eshelman for heading up the best park program in Florida and one of the best in the entire country.

He announced that the new amphitheatre at West County Regional Park in West Boca was scheduled to open in March, 2008, and promised we would have “Shakespeare in the park” there next summer.

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ALAN KELLOCK
Kellock moved to West Boca in 2000. He was born in Manhattan, raised on Long Island, and graduated from Antioch College...

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