Palouse skate park, garden work now underway

Palouse Arts Council volunteers prepare the skating area for a mural.

Work at Palouse Skate Park and Tony Kettel Skate Gardens is picking up as summer begins.

Expected to be added in the next month are an 80-foot sidewalk, an aluminum fence, a smaller concrete skate bowl and a mural.

Gravel has been compacted for an ADA-accessible sidewalk to be poured as soon as this week.

This sidewalk will have planting circles for perennials, and the Garfield/Palouse FFA students assembled six benches to be placed along the path.

Once the walkway is complete, organizers will put in an aluminum alloy fence...