Soccer field at Willis Winters Park. Photo courtesy of Barbara Cohen.
Willis Winters Park is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this weekend.
Coinciding with the centennial is a tree-planting and a ribbon-cutting on the renovated soccer field.
Dallas City Council and Park and Recreation Board members from District 2 and District 14 will be at the event, which will feature a kickball game between the Dallas Police Department and community members.
There will be events for kids as well as talks about the history of East Dallas from neighbors.
Willis Winters Park, formerly Randall Park, is surrounded by neighborhoods, the Santa Fe Trail, Woodrow Wilson High School and J.L. Long Middle School, and Juliette Fowler Communities. It was renamed in 2019 for Willis C. Winters, a neighborhood preservationist and former Dallas Park and Recreation director. Winters designed a pavilion at the park in honor of his son, a former Woodrow football player who died of complications from surgery.
Friends of Willis Winters Park has been instrumental in keeping the park clean, maintaining the pollinator garden and advocating for park improvements.
The event is scheduled for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 12 at the park.
