BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER Vol. 128 • No. 265 Monday, October 28, 2019 75 CENTS STATE BOUND FORECAST Tomorrow West Liberty-Salem boys and 59º 44º girls qualify for state meet PRECIPITATION: None | Month 1.93” | Year 43.55” ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE @ www.examiner.org Joyful celebration hosted for new Come Play at the Peak playground BY MANDY LOEHR “I told my principal, EXAMINER STAFF WRITER Mrs. (Krista) Adelsberger,
[email protected] and she put me in the Dare to Be Aware Club. We thought we’d raise money for a $5,000 swing, but with he sun the help of the park board and the Logan County shone Board of Developmental brightly Disabilities, here we are T today with this new Sunday $300,000 playground. “That is why I love afternoon as a Logan County.” Tracy Gregg, one of the number of Dare to Be Aware Club area children advisers, recalled how stu- dents in the club joined of all abilities together and presented their accessible playground had the ideas to the Bellefontaine chance to run, Parks and Recreation District Board and the swing, slide, Logan County Board of Developmental play and Disabilities, and both laugh organizations quickly got behind the idea and together at fundraising began. Kris Myers, parks super- their new all- intendent, said he remem- bers one of the presenta- accessible tions to the park board. playground “One of the students said, ‘I want to see the located at smile on a kid’s face when they get to play on the Mary Rutan playground and they Park. haven’t been able to EXAMINER PHOTO | MANDY LOEHR The pleasant autumn before.’ There wasn’t a dry Chandler Daniels makes her way across playground equipment Sunday during the Come Play at the Peak play- afternoon with the sur- eye in the room.” ground grand opening, located at the former Kaleidoscope Park.