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posted April 4, 2004

Dangerous Trash

Playground near fence Sunday afternoon, March 28, 2004

The fence beside the playground was replaced last year. The scrap left over from demolishing the kids' cooking area (play) was left there. It has nails sticking up. The city-built playground has little trash in it but the sand pit play area has all this stuff. The sand pit play area is an official part of the playground, despite being a community initiative, and it's very very popular. But it has often been neglected by Parks Department trash pickers. Large sand-play areas are not an untested idea. Park staff might want to take note of the legendary parks superintendent Tommy Thomson's comments on their importance for children: Read more >>

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posted April 5, 2004

April 5: The playground looks even worse now, since a few warm days brought the kids out, and the trash is dispersed all over the sandpit area, and beyond. If the outside parks workers are too busy to clean this up, we'll call in extra recreation staff this week to address the problem.

posted April 7, 2004

April 7: We sent these pictures to the parks maintenance people but we never got an answer. So the recreation staff cleaned up the playground area themselves, removed the broken pieces of wood with exposed nails, raked up broken glass, etc. Now it's ready for play -- none too soon, since the playground had lots of kids in it after school today.


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