Community comes together working side by side to create brand new playground at DeLeon Park
There was music playing and what sounded like a party was actually a miracle on Silvestre Street in the making. After the ground was prepared on Thursday and Friday for the new playground, it was time to assemble the new playground equipment and do a many more things including shovel and rack piles of mulch onto the playground. cement, cement the framework, and paint the basketball court and fasten the many bolt and screws which connected the pieces of playground equipment together. At midday both young and old could be seen with shovels and rakes as the time was counting down. The Kaboom! Playground would be completed that day.
The design of the playground was chosen weeks ago as many voted among several options.
Everyone who came to work was required to sign a waiver and each volunteer was given a T-Shirt. Some reporters who came to report on the event would be put to work shoveling the mulch into wheelbarrows and tarps which were then transported to bare areas of ground.
At midday, donated lunch items were provided to the many volunteers.
Although the playground equipment is fully assembled, organizers for the event say the playground cannot be used until Tuesday to allow for the concrete to dry.
On Facebook posts, a number of comments agreed agreed Saturday’s cooperative playground build was a good day for Uvalde.
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