If you're looking for a summer activity for your children, you might consider signing up for our skateboard class starting Saturday at the Kofu Park Skate Park.

Although we have a few touch-up items to complete, we've reopened the Skate Park at Kofu Park after two weeks of repairs. About a dozen kids were in the parking lot after school today waiting for the good news. After I walked the park with our Park Superintendent, we agreed it was ready.

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Even fire stations with crumbling walls, rotten roofs and black mold don’t run cheap. One Lodi fire station has been sold for conversion to an engineering firm for $375,000.

The Skate Park at Kofu Park will be closing for two weeks, beginning Monday, April 29, so we can replace the worn skate ramp materials and bring back a "box" feature that was popular among the users. We have already had the metal frame of the box rewelded. We may have to do some welding work within the park, too, based on our initial assessments of the ramp features. If work goes quickly, we could reopen ahead of schedule. But for now, the closure is estimated at two weeks.

In a must-win week, and the Elliot Eagles varsity baseball team got just the start it needed. With timely hitting, up and down the lineup, and sound defense to support a pitching gem from Austin Vickers, the Eagles toppled the first-place Brookside Knights, 6-0, on Tuesday at Kofu Park in Lodi to keep their league title hopes alive.

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Austin Vickers pitched a complete-game, two-hit shutout on Tuesday at Kofu Park, striking out 10 batters to lead the Elliot Eagles varsity baseball team past the Millennium Falcons, 5-0, in Central California Athletic Alliance action.

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The Tokay Tigers varsity baseball team lost 9-4 to the Sheldon Huskies of Sacramento in a non-league game on Friday.

Lodi has hired a part-time police officer in an effort reduce growing crime and safety concerns in city parks.

Keeping Lodi's parks safe is a priority of the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department, and we've taken a step toward ensuring the public's enjoyment by creating a park police officer position.

Francisco Trujillo, a representative of the Community Partnership for Families, stood before the Lodi City Council on Wednesday and pleaded for funds to provide food, health care and basic services for families on the Eastside, several of whom were seated in the audience at Carnegie Forum.

The council members said their hands were tied, because CPF didn't apply for any money.

The community group was among several nonprofit organizations who are preparing for disappointment.