Archive for August, 2010
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
We had about 300 volunteers at Burke Park yesterday. The playground and 5 shade structures got built. We did a lot of painting… and then the rains came. We have some more work to do and we’ll schedule a Saturday later this month to finish it up. Stay tuned for more information in the next [...]
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Build Day Tomorrow!
Friends and Neighbors, One day more to a new playground! Wednesday was our preparation day at Burke Park. About 30 Marriott and Neighborhood volunteers spent the day setting everything up for our Build Day tomorrow. It was a very productive day and I think we are just about ready to go. Today, our KaBOOM Project [...]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
KaBOOM Build Week – August 24th
All, Build Week is here and there are lots of activities going on. Several people and businesses have helped to pull this off and we cannot say thank you enough. If you cannot volunteer on build day, come by and make a non-perishable food donation to Second Harvest Food bank or come by for the [...]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
KaBOOM Update – Side Projects
Friends & Neighbors, We are getting closer to build day and everything is coming together. We are really blessed to have Marriott as our sponsor. With the help of a lot of volunteers, next Friday will be a success. In this update I want to share with you the other projects we will be working on. We just finalized these this [...]
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
KaBOOM Playground Status – August 17
Neighbors, We are progressing quite well on our upcoming KaBOOM! playground build. We have finalized our design for the playground itself, but we are planning to do a lot more than just build a playground. Here is what the playground will look like! http://irishchannel.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/KaBOOM-Design-2.pdf In addition to this, we have lots of side construction projects planned [...]