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November 5, 2008Reprinted from Councilwoman Tyson’s monthly newsletter for Columbus:
Thursday, September 18th and Friday, September 19th were two great days in Clintonville. That is when members of the Clintonville community joined forces with City Year-Columbus and volunteers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital to construct new playground equipment in Whetstone Park. Not only did this effort help save the city thousands of construction dollars, it was a great example of community in action.
The new playground equipment was included in the overall improvements made to Whetstone Park, and was funded in part through my Safe Playgrounds Capital Improvement initiative. This initiative added money to Columbus’ Capital Improvements Budget for the systematic replacement of aging and unsafe playground equipment in Columbus parks. As noted in previous editions of my newsletter, Columbus Children’s Hospital treats more than 600 children annually for playground related injuries.
The Whetstone playground being constructed incorporates soft surfaces and updated equipment that is ADA-accessible.
Thanks to everyone involved in this exciting and important project.
Karns Park, on the City’s Southside, and Weinland Park, in the central city, also were recently updated with safe playground equipment.
***Note from Alice – So what does this make you think about? Nationwide Children’s wants to prevent playground injuries. Well then why are we paying money to put up jungle gyms and slides? The best way to prevent playground injuries is to encourage natural play spaces! How can we make this work for us?
