{"id":34424,"date":"2026-02-26T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=34424"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:08:46","slug":"park-board-term-extended-one-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/park-board-term-extended-one-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Park board term extended; one opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One member of Decatur&#8217;s half of the Decatur-Adams County Parks and Recreation Department has a new term while one seat needs to be filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dan Rickord recently announced that he has appointed Alex Ainsworth to a new four-year term on the six-member board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"374\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Park-rec-slide.jpg?resize=374%2C256&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Park-rec-slide.jpg?w=374&amp;ssl=1 374w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Park-rec-slide.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is Ainsworth&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the mayor will fill an opening on the city board created by the recent passing of long-time member Dick Stimpson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other members are Larry Isch, president for over 50 years, Kelly Ehinger, Kim McCord, and Joan Siefring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six members of the county parks department are: Randy Lehman, Scott Bonifas, Mark Ripley, Mellisa Fey, Nathan Bowers, and Brad Kohlhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both boards currently meet the second Monday of each month at Riverside Center, the county board at 6 p.m. and the city board at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com One member of Decatur&#8217;s half of the Decatur-Adams County Parks and Recreation Department has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14,15],"class_list":["post-34424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Park-rec-slide.jpg?fit=374%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34426,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34424\/revisions\/34426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}