Lawrence Community Builds Playground In One Day
LAWRENCE (CBS) -- Students at Arlington Elementary school are celebrating the accomplishment of a single day: a new playground.
Three hundred volunteers built the playground in just one day Thursday.
Assistant principal Maureen Duerr said the planning started in the fall when the school received a Promised Neighborhood grant.
"We were in Washington,D.C., sitting around a table, saying 'What does the Arlington neighborhood need?'" she said. "And my first thing was, our kids need a place to play."
WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Carl Stevens reports
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Duerr gives credit to the New Balance Corporation and kaBoom, as well as community volunteers.
"Without our community, we wouldn't have been built," she told WBZ NewsRadio 1030.
This is a neighborhood that didn't have a decent playground. Now they've got a great one, and the kids are psyched.
"The playground was awesome. I think I've got to do the jungle gym," one student said.
