The Healing Garden at Crescent Park has been very well received since it was opened about a year ago.

Now there’s an effort to find the people it will need to maintain it now and into the future.

Josie Gerardi, chair of the City’s Parks, Creation and Landscape Commission said she has been talking to individuals and groups that have expressed interest in helping maintain the garden as part of a rotation.

“I think I have two groups lined up so far,” Gerardi said, stressing that “any group of friends that would even be willing to get together and have a group” would be welcomed as part of this effort.

Discussions continued at the Commission’s Tuesday meeting about the potential for a disc golf course somewhere in Warren County.

Gerardi raised concerns about the cost and ongoing maintenance as well as vandalism of the baskets which, she said, is a “really big problem with disc golf. … I guess that has gotten to be quite the thing to vandalize.”

Disc golf has been before city parks groups several times in recent years and this version proposes to center around Mulberry Park in the northern part of the city, potentially up onto school district property.

Gerardi asked whether this is something that’s really needed in the city.

City Manager Mike Holtz said there are a “lot of variations” for courses with some in wide open fields with others in woods.

Commission member Mike Suppa said one proposal suggested Washington Park as a location “so it really varies.”

“(The city) would really have to have a strong commitment to a volunteer group to follow through with this,” Commission member Mary Conarro explained.

She raised concerns for potential liability for any trails that are constructed as part of a course.

“I think we’re still a ways away from a disc golf course,” Holtz said.

One thing that’s not a ways away is pickleball at Betts Park.

The paving process for eight courts is to begin soon. DPW Superintendent Joe Reinke added that a project aimed at replacing all of the water lines in Betts Park has also been completed.