The aging bleachers at Living Memorial Athletic Park have been torn down as the municipality installs new seating at the baseball park.
Brenda Ingram, recreation manager for the municipality, said the wooden bleachers were inspected by the municipality’s insurer and were found to be faulty.
“Structurally they’re not safe and they don’t meet the building code,” she said.
The wood was old and rotting in place and the stairs did not have proper hand rails in place.
The baseball park was built in 1950.
It was one of the last sports parks in the Okanagan with covered bleachers in place.
While the municipality will continue to have seating in place at the park, Ingram said the games at Living Memorial do not draw large crowds of spectators.
The park is a baseball facility, while the diamonds at Dale Meadows Sports Complex are for slo-pitch.
Ingram said the fields have different dimensions and characteristics.
