General Recreation Community
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Executive Director Terrell Blackmon and his team needed two new parks for the children of Chester Housing Authority to call their own. Its three communities are home to nearly 80 children between the ages of four to 12.
Chester Heights II received a new playground to replace an existing structure deemed unsafe, and the second playground was a first for Arthur Underwood Manor. “This is where most of our residents with children live,” says Blackmon.
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The lifespan of most play structures is measured in years—not decades. McLean Park in North Myrtle Beach, however, is a testament to the quality and longevity of Landscape Structures’ (LSI) product line.
The City of North Myrtle Beach just recently replaced the park’s 23-year-old LSI playsystem. Jim Grainger, the acting director of Parks & Recreation, said the original playground had reached the point of replacement and needed a safer, new surface in lieu of sand.
“It made sense to redo everything,” explains Grainger. “We said, ‘Let’s do this right.’”
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Bayview Park sits on a knoll among grand live oaks that are several hundred years old in the City of Georgetown. The park was the City’s most recent revitalization project, phase one of Keep Georgetown Beautiful’s multi-phase initiative to elevate the quality of every park in the region. Executive Director Keith Wilson also says their goal also is to create cohesiveness from park to park. “We want the same caliber park in every neighborhood,” he explains.
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When the Clemson Road Child Development Program in Richland School District Two received stimulus funding this year, the program’s lead teacher, Debbie Brady, was excited to learn that the district and Title I Coordinator, Dr. Marsha Moseley, had great ideas on how to use it. The funding opened the door to improving the play areas at five of the program’s nine sites across the district. Keels Elementary School and Windsor Elementary School were first on the list.
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Pilesgrove-Woodstown, New Jersey, is a small community with a big heart. In 2007, the community rallied together to build a playground in honor of John Vascek, Jr., a local young man who died in a motorcycle accident in 2004. “His family established the John Vascek, Jr. Memorial Foundation to keep his name alive, while donating to charitable causes. John loved children, so it was a perfect fit for the foundation to fund a new playground that would also be a memorial,” recalls Jamie Danner, treasurer of the Pilesgrove-Woodstown Recreation Commission’s board of directors.
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