The Leaser Lake Heritage Foundation has been awarded a $45,000 grant from Cabela's Outdoor Fund for the Leaser Lake Accessible Recreation Area.

The area will be a premier outdoor facility providing visitors with barrier-free fishing, boating, walking and picnicking opportunities in a beautiful outdoor setting.

Once completed, Leaser Lake will become a destination for users including wounded veterans, spinal cord injury survivors, senior citizens and other people with physical challenges from throughout Eastern Pennsylvania.

Cabela's Outdoor Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, conservation and improvement of wildlife and wildlife habitat, hunting, fishing, camping and other outdoor sporting and recreational activities.

Through local and national fund raising efforts, the fund contributes to other like-minded organizations across North America.

Lehigh Valley residents are invited to meet 10 a.m. July 14 at 8568 Follweiler Court, Kempton, at Leaser Lake, to celebrate Cabela's new partnership with the Leaser Lake Accessible Recreation Area.

The 117-acre lake reopened at full capacity this spring after a concrete end wall at the outlet was replaced to repair a leak. That followed a $3-5-million construction project by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. The 540-acre park is owned by the commission and Lehigh County.

The lake opened in 1971.

For more information, contact George White at gwhite@leaserlakeheritage.org.