Archive | 2014

KaBOOM! Whitehall playground built in six hours

Khara Timsina wiped the sweat off his brow as he pushed a wheelbarrow filled with concrete across the colorful playground. Upbeat tunes blared in the background as nearly 350 volunteers helped to install the bright orange racer slides, swings and climbing walls in the forest-theme playground at Wallace Park in Whitehall on Saturday. Six hours […]

Partners join forces to build new playground in Whitehall

(by Liz Miles / PopCity Media) Various community stakeholders and more than 200 community volunteers are working together to build a new playground for children in Prospect Park in Whitehall on Sept. 9. An old playground in the park will be replaced by a new playground with a design based on children’s drawings created at […]