Gilbert offering residents discount on recreation programs

Freestone Activity Center is one of the places in town with parks and recreation programming. (Courtesy town of Gilbert)

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By Tom Blodgett | 9:15 AM Nov 26, 2020 MST

Gilbert residents will get a 50% discount on recreation programs starting Nov. 30 as part of the town’s pandemic relief program.

The discount will be available to residents who register for recreation programming through the GilbertRecreation.com website until the town’s funding is exhausted.

The money comes from the AZCares program from the state. Gilbert Town Council’s AZCares subcommittee allocated $400,000 for this use from the town’s more than $29 million it got from the state in AZCares.

Gilbert Parks and Recreation Manager John Kennedy said the money provides support to the physical and mental well-being of residents during the pandemic.

Parks and recreation programming ranges from early childhood education classes to arts and crafts and adult fitness programs. The full offerings are available through the GilbertRecreation.com website.

By Tom Blodgett

Raised in Arizona, Tom Blodgett has spent 30 years in journalism in Arizona and is the editor of the Gilbert edition of Community Impact Newspaper. He is a graduate of Arizona State University, where he now serves as an instructional professional in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and editorial adviser to The State Press, the university's independent student media outlet.

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