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October is the time for the harvest of the finished works in Zapyškis. The restored accesses to the Church of San Juan Bautista are being completed and more and more amenities appear for those who want to spend their free time here. Changes are also taking place in the upper body of the elderly, in the village of Kluoniškės.
Rhubarb alley was green
Even today, critics of the church’s landscaping project enjoy a more comfortable space: no more wandering around the lawn where ticks can be present. If the weather is rainy, you can do without rubber boots during events and celebrations. In the past, the meadow collapsed, so ladies could only dream of shoes or decided to damage them.
The entrances to the church are still being managed and restored. At the beginning of October, next to the mother of the Lithuanian churches, there was a green alley. The contractor of the church’s environmental management project, the company “Ekodora”, donated 250 Lithuanian flower seedlings and the contractor of the church’s environmental management project, and the Zapyškis community, employees of the old culture center and Ežer Ellis participated in the aid.
Surveillance cameras are installed in the area, so the villains do not want to destroy anything in the restored sacred place.
More amenities
The bike path in Panemune was especially popular with cyclists during the quarantine. While it gets darker and darker at night, it shouldn’t put off pedaling. Last Friday, the bike lane lighting was turned on, it will be safer and more comfortable for cyclists.
Zapyškis elder Sigitas Imbrasas was pleased that the asphalt pavement has already been laid on Muziejaus street, sidewalks have been installed and a paved parking lot has been paved, which has been in operation since last Monday. The second site is also paved. Rūta Černiauskienė, deputy director of the Kaunas district municipal administration, emphasized that everything was done in accordance with the heritage protection requirements, the project was coordinated with the Kaunas Branch of the Department of Cultural Heritage and additional archaeological investigations were carried out .
Zapyškis also made friends with electric cars. They will be available to load on site near the Church of San Juan Bautista. “In a week we will have a bicycle repair station. Next year it will be possible to rent bicycles in the same square. This service will be provided by CityBee,” said Imbras.
A chain of plans
The city near the Nemunas, popular with tourists, especially cyclists, will be even more hospitable next year. Design work on the information center has already started. It is planned to build a building in the marina, where it will be possible to comfortably wait for the arrival of a ship, enjoy a cup of coffee or a glass of fresh water and admire the view of the Nemunas.
The town near the Nemunas, popular with tourists, especially cyclists, will be even more hospitable next year.
Next year, a more convenient infrastructure for launching small boats will be created in Zapyškis. It is planned that the stand will be built a little further from the Church of San Juan Bautista, near the treatment plant. It will appear during the execution of the project “Installation of a drop point for water vehicles in Zapyškis town and Guogai village, Kaunas district”, funded by the Environmental Protection Support Program. 18.7 thousand were assigned for both objects. euros.
Until 2022, when Kaunas and the Kaunas district become the European Capital of Culture, a dredge will be brought to Zapyškis in the Nemunas and a floating garden will appear. Here it will be possible to organize conferences and trainings.
Destroy ideas
Miglė Andrejeva, Acting Director of the Ežerėlis Cultural Center and Acting Director, lamented that COVID-19 was destroying cultural plans and ideas.
At the end of September, when the situation was even more favorable, a running competition was held in Zapyškis to win the Kaunas District Mayor Valerijus Makūnas and the Kęstutis Orentas Olympic Cup. And here it was decided to postpone the traditional sports competitions of the Zapyškis community.
M. Andrejeva was glad that the Kite Festival, which came from spring to the end of August, has a kind of continuation: the kite workshops travel through the district and Lithuania.
At the end of September, a new catamaran “Zapyškis” was presented to the public, which will carry passengers and bicycles next season and will serve for educational and cognitive trips in Nemunas between Zapyškis, Kulautuva and Kačerginė.
The ethnographer working in the Zapyškis leisure room organized a series of lessons, seminars and teachings on weaving and strip weaving, thus paying tribute to the Year of Folk Art.
“We had planned many events, but the situation with COVID-19 is correcting everything. And we did not organize,” Andrejeva said.
However, the renovated Church of San Juan Bautista is open to visitors, here from September 8. you are already a permanent employee.
Preparation for settlements
The Community Service Center is expected to open its doors in the village of Kluoniškės later this month. Buy furniture and other accessories to carry out the planned activities. The director of this center, Evelina Valskytė, confirmed that a day center for children will be located here, laundry and ironing services and other services will be provided.
Zapyškis Elder Corps is one of the largest in the Kaunas district in terms of occupied area, there are nineteen villages and many remote isolated farms. There are about 35 percent in the body of elders. socially disadvantaged children, 249 people with disabilities, 327 socially disadvantaged population, many single people in need of various social services.
It will also be more convenient to reach both the Zapyškis Church and the Community Service Center. Tautvydas Tamošiūnas, Deputy Director of the Department of Roads and Transport of the Kaunas District Municipality, acting as chief, said that the maintenance of Bažnyčios Street had already been completed. Its section from the Community Service Center to the Zapyškis Basic School has recently been paved.
At the top of the old-age residence in Zapyškis, the village of Kluoniškės, a new asphalt pavement was poured on Bokšto Street and a sidewalk was installed on Liepų Street.
Next year, it is planned to start the renovation of the main Zapyškio street: install new sidewalks, abandon overhead power lines, modernize lighting.
Photo by Justina Lasauskaitė
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