This is the first in a series of weekly features about fun forays for families.
We'll highlight all-age summer activities that are inexpensive or even free.
Indoors and outdoors, from libraries to parks, we'll explore all sorts of ways to beat the doldrums.
If you go
• What: Splash pad at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, 3482 E. River Road
• When: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily through Oct. 31
• Cost: Free
• Etc.: For kids 12 and younger
Did you know
Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, at East River Road and North Alvernon Way, is named after the 13-year-old who died in a car crash in 2003. Her parents, April and Jon, raised more than $1.5 million toward construction of the park, which opened in 2006.
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In addition to the splash pad, the park has covered basketball courts, three soccer fields and a memorial garden.
"To see all the kids laughing and playing and running through the splash pad, it's a wonderful feeling," April Fenton said recently in an Arizona Daily Star story.
"Day or night when we drive by there, I get a smile on my face."
Source: Star archives
