You need to make your luck, they say.
In the case of volunteers from Boeing, a Seattle radio station and Kent-area high schools, it’s literally the truth.
Roughly 50 volunteers descended on Kent’s Green Tree Park last Saturday to construct a new play structure for the neighborhood.
Even a couple of city councilmembers were present to help improve the park.
Some of the tasks included spreading wood bark surfacing, digging post holes and using power tools to secure the structure.
Volunteers from several different communities and backgrounds worked together on a common goal and improved their community. But it was most valuable to the children in the neighborhood.
Shyi and Nova, two local youngsters who were peering anxiously through the chain link fence, said that they looked forward to riding on the playstructure’s zipline when the playground was finished at the park along Southeast 216th Street and 120th Avenue Southeast.
“I’ve never been to another park that had a zipline,” Nova said. “The old park was only for babies. You couldn’t do anything.”
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