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[email protected] When the Food Bank of Delaware opens its new warehouse around this time next year, its goal goes far beyond just having more storage space. Instead, President and CEO Patricia NEWARK POST PHOTO BY KARlE SIMMONS Beebe seeks a fundamen Dominic Lalite, 7, and 4-year-old Charles Simmons IV, of Newark, gaze into the mirrored sphere at the entrance to H!gh Five Park tal shift in the way the state in Glasgow Park. The new playground is geared toward children with autism, but anyone is welcome to play there. deals with hunger. "We're going to be advocat ing systemic change," Beebe Glasgow Par~ playground geared toward kids with autism said during a groundbreak ing ceremony at the new fa On hurt By KARlE SIMMONS sive park tailored to the needs of autis their daughter Delia, could play. cility in Pencader Corporate
[email protected] tic children. They pitched the idea to County Center on Oct 20. The playground, which lies within Councilman David Tackett, who then "1his 25-acre campus will in blaze What started as a father's phone call Glasgow Park behind the main pavilion, brought it to County Executive Tom become part of the solution to two years ago, ended last week with is the brainchild of Glasgow parents Gordon. ending hunger in Delaware." RobscoH Manor home his daughter's smile as she watched Elizabeth and Rob Scheinberg, who no New Castle County leaders open ticed the county lacked a place where See PLAYGROUND See FOOD BANK damaged by fire H!GH 5 Park - Delaware's first inclu- children on the autism spectrum, like Page A15 Page A6 Pg.