Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Don’t underestimate the smallest seed for it is filled with great courage.
On a beautiful fall day, I notice a group of children discover a dead squirrel lying in a parking space on the side of the road. I've seen these children playing together on the corner playground after school each day, their age’s range from kindergarten to third grade. At first they stand around the squirrel talking about it, staring intently. By the looks on almost all of their faces, it seems this is the first time that any of them had seen something dead, in real life. I am mesmerized by the children and stand back from the group wanting to see for myself how this is going to play out. It seems somewhat like observing a social experiment. The children stand on the curb by the side of the road, knowing if they step foot off the curb …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Funding for a new playground with custom play structures is coming to Greenbelt, MD.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and the Maryland Board of Public Works have approved $86,000 to upgrade a Laurel Hill Playground. The funds will come through a grant from Program Open Space. The grant was approved at the board's meeting Wednesday and will go to a Laurel Hill playground with custom play structures designed for children ages 2-12 and for ADA accessible safety surfacing, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. As of Thursday, Assistant Greenbelt City Manager David Moran said the city had not received the notification letter, but confirmed it did apply for an approximately $86,000 grant to take two relatively small playgrounds, one located behind 12 Court Hillside and the other by 2 Court Laurel Hill, and combine …
Monday, October 10, 2011
Playground equipment was destroyed in a fire that is being attributed to juveniles, according to county Fire/EMS.
Update, Oct. 11, 10 a.m.: The fire was on the 7200 block of South Ora Court, according to Prince George's County Fire/EMS spokesperson Mark Brady, who also clarified that the call came in just after 5 p.m. Monday. Original Post: Oct. 10: On Monday evening, equipment on a Greenbelt playground caught fire, according to Prince George's County Fire/EMS spokesperson Mark Brady, who said it was attributed to juveniles playing with matches. Around 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department units arrived to find a climbing wall on fire and extinguished the fire without incident, according to Brady, who said the equipment was destroyed. Greenbelt resident and Patch columnist, Dawn Mooney, tweeted Patch several times about a suspected …
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4:11 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
There is no excuse for any "program where kids get to play with matches just enough to burn themselves slightly and realize it isn't a good thing to do." Assisting a child to be burned, IMHO, is improper, no matter how slight. more ›