dog park

The Costa Mesa City Council in Orange County, Calif., has taken a piece of parkland designated for additional tennis courts and directed that it instead be used to expand TeWinkle Park’s "large dog" area.
First off, we say a big paws up to the council.
Second off, we say … TeWinkle Park?
TeWinkle, it turns out, is the only park in Costa Mesa where dogs can play, socialize and, well, TeWinkle while off the leash.
That the "Bark Park" there, with its big dog area and its little dog area (also to be expanded, the council decided) could prevail over tennis in health-conscious sunny southern California, is another sign that, across America, dogs are coming a little closer to getting their day.
The council voted unanimously to direct the Parks and Recreation Commission to consider changes to the TeWinkle Park Master Plan, a change necessitated by the rapid growth of the dog park, which easily draws 1,000 people on a weekend day.
TeWinkle Park, by the way, is named after Charles W. TeWinkle, Costa Mesa’s first mayor.
To read the story in the Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, click here.
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John Woestendiek has been a features reporter at The Sun for six years. Previously he worked as a reporter, columnist, national correspondent and editor at four other newspapers, and received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1987 for his reporting on prisons and mental institutions for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Woestendiek lives in South Baltimore with his dog, Ace.

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