Kaboom! invites community to help design new playground at Esperanza Park

“A new playground is coming to Esperanza Park and we’re looking for designers,” are the words on a Kaboom! flier announcing a design meetup at El Progreso Memorial Library on Wednesday, February 8th at 11:30 AM. Children and adults are invited to participate and submit designs both at the February 8th meetup and virtually through a Vision Study through the Kaboom! Esperanza Vision website “KABOOM!, the City of Uvalde, and The CarMax Foundation are building a new playground at Esperanza Park this April! We want you to be a part of designing this playground! Come share your ideas at a Design Event following Story Hour at El Progreso Memorial Library on February 8 at 11:30AM. You can also share your ideas at https://tinyurl.com/EsperanzaVision ,” an official statement released by Kaboom! reads.
The playground design survey will close at 12:01 AM on February 9 according to Kaboom! Once the designs are finalized Kaboom! will share the community’s ideas with the manufacturer.
Bicki Rudman has been named as Kaboom! Project Director for the Esperanza Park Project.

The CarMax Foundation is funding the project, and volunteers from the foundation will be joining the community on the April 20 Build Day. And the Rotary Club of Uvalde has generously agreed to provide additional partnership on the ground to help support the project.

120th Birthday Celebration of  El Progreso Memorial Library’s Founding A very special birthday cake will be offered at the noon meeting of El Progreso Club following the program of the fascinating Kincaid Rock Shelters in Sabinal. The Kincaid Stone Pavement is the oldest known structural feature in North America. This meeting is FREE and open to the public.

Art and Smart in El Progreso Meeting Room on Saturday February 11th from 10 AM to Noon with Children’s Bereavement Center featuring creative Themed Valentine’s art projects, treats and fun.

CASHFLOW with Namen Garg-
Wednesday, February 15th Noon to 1 PM.
Bring your lunch to El Progreso Meeting Room

Mark Fuller, Face Painter an Balloon Artist at 10:30 AM, Thursday, February 16th

Non Stoop Laughs from Beginning to end. Will have fascinating and balloons after the show as long as supplies last.

 

 

“A new playground is coming to Esperanza Park and we’re looking for designers,” are the words on a Kaboom! flier announcing a design meetup at El Progreso Memorial Library on Wednesday, February 8th at 11:30 AM.  Children and adults are invited to participate and  submit designs both at the February 8th meetup and virtually through a Vision Study through the Kaboom!  Esperanza Vision website 

“KABOOM!, the City of Uvalde, and The CarMax Foundation are building a new playground at Esperanza Park this April! We want you to be a part of designing this playground! Come share your ideas at a Design Event following Story Hour at El Progreso Memorial Library on February 8 at 11:30AM. You can also share your ideas at https://tinyurl.com/EsperanzaVision ,”   an official statement released by Kaboom! reads.

The playground design survey will close at 12:01AM on February 9 according to Kaboom! Once the designs are finalized Kaboom! will share the community’s ideas with the manufacturer. 

Bicki Rudd has been named as Kaboom! Project Director for the Esperanza Park Project.  The CarMax Foundation is funding the project, and volunteers from the foundation will be joining the community on the April 20 Build Day. And the Rotary Club of Uvalde has generously agreed to provide additional partnership on the ground to help support the project.

 

  Kaboom! will once again be coming back to Uvalde in April of 2022 with a new playground project in mind, this time at Esperanza Park located on Grove Street in Uvalde, Texas according to Kaboom! organizer Jennifer Diamond who spoke to the Rotary Club of Uvalde Thursday, January 5th, at noon via Zoom at the Club’s regularly scheduled meeting.

The build dates for the project are Tuesday, April 18th through Thursday, April 20th, 2022.

“We will be working with the community and the City and many of the residents to build a new playground,”  Diamond said. She went on to say she is expecting to have some volunteers for the funding program.

After Diamond’s presentation. The Rotary Club of Uvalde voted to partner with Kaboom! to help coordinate the effort and to recruit volunteers and prepare the logistics.

Diamond said the park project they are planning will be smaller than the DeLeon Park Playground which was constructed in October 2022. “It will be smaller as the park itself is smaller. It will be closer to 2500 square feet,” Diamond said

The big build day is slated for Thursday, April 20th and they are looking for 50 to 100 volunteers on that day according to Diamond.