Press Release

Volunteers To Spend Weekend On Garden Place Playground

Volunteers will gather Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4, to help Garden Place Academy's dream of a new playground become reality.

The new playground, called a Learning Landscape, will replace the current asphalt and gravel play areas with new asphalt and a synthetic wood fiber base and provide new playground structures for early childhood, primary and intermediate age groups. Also planned are a new basketball court, shade trees, a central meeting area, new swings, a grape arbor and a hill with boulders for climbing.

Volunteers should report to the school, located at 4425 Lincoln St., at 9 a.m. Volunteers must be 18 or older. Lunch and refreshments will be served. Work on both days will end about 4 p.m.

"This is a wonderful example of the community, private industry and DPS working together for kids," said Garden Place Principal Alvina Crouse.

The playground, was designed through an agreement between DPS and the University of Colorado at Denver's College of Architecture and Planning. Numerous private sponsors have contribute financial and in-kind resources.

Those interested in volunteering or supporting the project financially can contact the school at 303-295-7785.