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The community is about to flip a playground
Kent Parks, Recreation & Community Services – together with the Kent Parks Foundation, KaBOOM! organizers, Disney workers and more than 200 volunteers – will build a new playground in one day at Turnkey Park.
The June 7 work party and transformation will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a ceremony at the park, 23312 100th Ave. SE. The project is scheduled to be completed around 3 p.m., culminating with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the new play area.
Community leaders, including Mayor Suzette Cooke, are expected to appear.
Elementary students joined KaBOOM! organizers to help design the playground. Volunteers from the community will join staff and sponsors to assemble the playground in less than eight hours. Volunteers plan to move 48,600 square feet of safety surfacing by hand.
Since 1996, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together community interests and business to construct more than 2,200 new places to play across North America.
The new playground is one of dozens made possible with support from Disney to inspire kids to lead healthier lifestyles and will provide more than 1,300 children in Kent with a safe place to play.
City officials say the playground equipment at Turnkey Park was outdated and in need of replacement.
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