Warsaw Park Board on Tuesday approved a free lunch program for those 18 and younger in Municipal Park this summer.
This is the sixth year the program is being offered.
This year the lunches will be served June 4-Aug. 3.
The meals are provided through the USDA summer feeding program operated by the Warsaw Community Schools Food Services Department.
A total of 6,200 lunches were served last year during the program.
In other business, the park board approved an agreement for a 2012 tennis program.
There were 170 kids who participated in the program last year, according to Larry Plummer, parks director.
The program is for kindergartners through 12th grade.
The Warsaw Community Tennis Association agrees to provide the instruction and supervision of a summer youth tennis program.
Warsaw Community Schools will provide the facilities for the program, the tennis courts adjacent to WCHS, at no cost to the association.
The city of Warsaw will pay the Warsaw Community Tennis Association $30 per registered participant up to a maximum of $6,000 for services rendered by the association.
During summer 2012, Warsaw Community Schools, Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department and Warsaw Community Tennis Association will combine resources to provide tennis instruction and recreation programming.
Nate Bosch, Kosciukso Lakes and Streams director, attended the meeting and provided an update on the annual Lakes and Streams Festival that is June 9 and 10.
June 9 events are in Municipal Park, and June 10 events are in Winona Lake Park.
This is the fourth year for the lakes festival.
There were 1,350 people who attended the festival last year.
Shaun Gardner, maintenance director, provided a 2012 playground audit update and said playground equipment at Pike Lake beach will need to be replaced this fall.
The equipment is 20 years old and needs to be replaced, Gardner said.
Plummer informed the board that trees at Center and Pike lakes have been sprayed as well as those at Pike Lake campground, and said Pike Lake Campground opens April 15.
