It's Official: Joey's Park to Open Tomorrow; Site Now Town Property

After two years of work, thousands of volunteers and contributors, lots of meetings  and about a million dollars in real and contributed costs, it took barely two minutes for the leaders of the community that built the new Joey's Park – the playground that now stands where the original once stood adjacent to the Winn Brook Elementary School – to hand the site over to the town of Belmont.

Friends of Joey's Park co-chairs Dianne Miller and Ellen Schreiber officially completed their penultimate task in transferring the necessary paperwork to the board's Chairman, Mark Paolillo Monday morning, Oct. 28.

"We are very grateful for everyone who volunteered and especially you," Paolillo said to Miller and Schreiber. 

As the paperwork was being handed over, Miller noted that at that very moment, the barrier fencing around the structure – put up the same day the site was "completed" on Oct. 14 (finishing touches needed to be performed after the gala celebration concluded on the Columbus Day celebration) –was being taken down and the official "opening" of Joey's Park would occur tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 29. 

The actual final task of the Friends, which is a committee of the Winn Brook PTA, will occur with the selection and planting of four or five trees on the site, expected to happen on Arbor Day.