Come and Play!
Springtime Fun at Our Playground
Join the Friends of Our Playground for our Annual Cleanup and Community Celebration!
Saturday, May 21st
9am - 1pm
Volunteer (9am - 11am)
We will need help cleaning the playground, painting and maintaining the equipment (skilled workers always welcome), and sprucing up landscaping.
Learn (10am - 11:30am)
Get tips from master gardeners, fitness experts, even Girl Scouts!
Play (10am - Noon)
Have some fun testing your skills at hopscotch, four square, ring toss, etc.! Get your face painted! Grab a spoon and try not to drop the egg during the family and friends relay races!
Lunch (Noon - 1pm)
Join neighbors for a FREE lunch!
For more information, please email friendsofourplayground@gmail.com
Take a moment to READ THIS LOVELY ARTICLE posted by Cool Progeny on March 21st, 2011.
Our Playground wins Best of Baltimore 2010!
The following is a quote from The City Paper:
Best Playground: Playground at Stadium Place
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Family Center Y at Stadium Place, 900 E. 33rd St., stadiumplayground.org This playground on the former Memorial Stadium property captures the city's spirit. The park, a miniature town built of recycled plastic "lumber," was designed with kid input and built by hordes of volunteers in April 2005. There was a boat, a theater, a shopping village, towers, swings and jungle gyms galore, plus a volcano. It was an instant success with families in surrounding neighborhoods, so when vandals burned down the park in September 2008, kids (and parents) who loved this maze of brightly painted wacky structures were devastated. Spirits were not broken, however, and volunteers rebuilt the playground, restoring it in May 2009 more or less to its original layout. It's a testament to the power of collective action and neighborly spirit we don't get enough of in this city. And judging by the typical Saturday afternoon mayhem, the kids still absolutely love it.
We had such a successful Spring Playground Clean-up and Celebration on Saturday,
May 1st of 2010! - Information about Spring 2011 Cleanup coming soon!
We planted 10 new trees, donated by Parks and People Foundation which also gave free trees to community members interested in greening their yards.
We mulched the new and old trees, seeded the grass, painted the village, tightened some loose boards, picked up garbage and vacuumed away the leaves and trash.
All the volunteers got a free T-shirt. T-shirts and bags are currently on a special SALE! CLICK HERE for more information and to order.
The food was delicious and the games were great!
Folks enjoyed themselves throughout the entire day.
SPECIAL THANKS to...
- Rose Harris-Jones for getting us the D.J. the clown, the face painters, and balloon artists! Thanks to you and your Girl Scouts for distributing flyers all over the community and at the JHU fair!
- Joan Stanne for getting together the amazing food crew and organizing all of their work! Thanks for developing the menu, doing the shopping and making it all seem so seamless!! The food was great:)
- Carla Ryon and Sara Daly for organizing and running the games, races and other activities! The potato sack races seemed to be particularly popular!! Everyone looked like they were having a blast!
- Sara Godbee for getting together the materials, organizing registration, running the table and managing the students' work hours.
- Bill Carson, Dan Strickler, and Betsy Krieger for developing the plan for the clean-up work and making sure it got done! Thanks for bringing the tools and the know-how and managing all of the volunteers!
- Janie Gordon for getting great food donations from H&S and Giant!
- Diane Kuthy for organizing and working with volunteers to repaint the village! It looks great!
- Minnie Shorter, Robin Truiett-Theodorson, Ilissa Gould, & Monica Smith for working with registration, setting up, keeping things going, preparing and serving food, and just getting done whatever needed to get done!
Thanks also to:
- Morgan State University Center for Career Development & Community Service
- The ladies of NCNW, Inc.-Chesapeake Bay Section
- Woodberry Crossing and Dave and Jen Bryant
