Birch Ridge Officially Preserved Forever
Salmon Press helping Make A Wish See page A3 THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2019 COVERING ALTON, BARNSTEAD, & NEW DURHAM - WWW.SALMONPRESS.COM FREE Community effort yields new playground BY CATHY ALLYN their children. partment’s overall bud- Contributing Writer At the Smith ball get, which covers people NEW DURHAM — fields, an A frame swing of all ages. “There is nothing there. set, there for years, was Accruing the money When teams from other removed a while ago due needed takes time, and towns come to play on to safety and insurance safe equipment is expen- our fields, it is embar- concerns. A slide for two sive. Low maintenance rassing that we have to five-year-olds sat for- equipment is even more nothing for them or lornly next to a monkey expensive. It looked as their siblings to do.” bar climbing structure, though children would “I wind up driving and that was it. have to wait several them to Wolfeboro for Someone needed to years to have something that little playground do something, and, for- to play on. there.” tunately for the kids in Then a number of “There’s a spinning town, a group of parents volunteers who serve as thing, like a merry-go- did. coaches got together. round; we call it the For years, the Parks “We wanted some- wheel of death. All the and Recreation depart- thing with little or no bigger kids are trying ment budget included maintenance,” Dana to slide down this little funds for a new play- Berry said, “and we slide and pushing little ground, but everyone wanted to give the kids COURTESY PHOTO A REAL community effort has gone into funding, designing, and installing a playground kids out of the way.” knows how slowly mon- their swings back.
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