[Durham INC] Volunteers Build New Playground for Children in Durham

Tue Oct 22 13:00:34 EDT 2013

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 22, 2013

CONTACTS:
Cynthia Booth, City of Durham, 919-560-4355, ext. 27223, Cynthia.Booth at DurhamNC.gov<mailto:Cynthia.Booth at DurhamNC.gov>
Tania Dautlick, Keep Durham Beautiful, 919-354-2729, Tania.Dautlick at DurhamNC.gov<mailto:Tania.Dautlick at DurhamNC.gov>
Kristie Gonzales, ABC 11, 919-687-2263, kristie.gonzales at abc.com<mailto:kristie.gonzales at abc.com>
Charmion Kinder, Disney, 818-627-4819, Charmion.kinder at disney.com<mailto:Charmion.kinder at disney.com>
Mike Vietti, KaBOOM!, 785-320-2137, mvietti at kaboom.org<mailto:mvietti at kaboom.org>

DESIGNED BY KIDS, BUILT BY VOLUNTEERS:
CITY OF DURHAM, KEEP DURHAM BEAUTIFUL, ABC11, DISNEY AND KaBOOM!
TO BUILD NEW PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN ON NOVEMBER 2

WHAT:            More than 200 volunteers from the City of Durham and Keep Durham Beautiful will join ABC11 and Disney VoluntEARS, organizers from KaBOOM!, and residents of  the local community on Saturday, Nov. 2 to build a new playground in less than eight hours at Oakwood Avenue park. The playground's design is based on drawings by children who participated in a Design Day event in September.

WHO:               City of Durham and Keep Durham Beautiful volunteers, ABC11 and Disney VoluntEARS, KaBOOM! organizers, and local community residents

WHY:                Children need a place to play every day in order to be active and healthy. Currently, Oakwood Avenue Park only has a small amount of outdated equipment for children to enjoy.

                            Since 1996, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together community interests and business to construct more than 2,300 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 hundreds of children in Durham with a safe place to play.

WHEN:            Saturday, November 2
                            8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m.                 Kick-off ceremony and volunteer deployment
                            11 a.m. - 1 p.m.                     Best viewing of playground construction
                            1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.                Final construction phase and adjustments
                            2:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.                Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate new play area
                            (Note: all times approximate)

WHERE:         Oakwood Avenue Park
411 Holloway Street
Durham, N.C. 27701

VISUALS:       Before and after shots of the site
                            Volunteers assembling brightly-colored playground equipment
                            Volunteers moving 45,360 square feet of safety surfacing by hand
Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the playground

Volunteer are still being accepted. To sign up visit ow.ly/ptPj8<http://ow.ly/ptPj8> and for general information about the project, visit http://keepdurhambeautiful.org/programs/oakwoodpark/.

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Durham Parks and Recreation
Durham Parks and Recreation provides opportunities for the Durham community to "Play More." Guided by the City's Strategic Plan, we strive to help residents discover, explore and enjoy life through creative and challenging recreational choices that contribute to their physical, emotional and social health. To learn more about Durham Parks and Recreation, visit http://www.DPRPlayMore.org, call (919) 560-4355 or like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DurhamParksandRecreation.

Keep Durham Beautiful
       Keep Durham Beautiful, a non-profit affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, engages and inspires individuals to take greater responsibility for their community environment. Our volunteers focus on litter prevention, recycling and waste reduction, beautification and community greening. To volunteer, visit www.keepdurhambeautiful.org<http://www.keepdurhambeautiful.org> or call 919-354-2729 and register for our newsletter. Be sure to like us at www.facebook.com/KeepDurhamBeautiful<http://www.facebook.com/KeepDurhamBeautiful> or follow us at www.twitter.com/DurhamBeautiful<http://www.twitter.com/DurhamBeautiful>.
Disney | ABC Television Group | ABC11
The Disney | ABC Television Group is composed of The Walt Disney Company's global entertainment and news television properties. This includes the ABC Television Network, ABC Owned Television Stations Group, ABC Entertainment Group, Disney Channels Worldwide, ABC Family as well as Disney | ABC Domestic Television and Disney Media Distribution. ABC11 WTVD is part of the Disney | ABC Television Group. ABC11 Eyewitness News provides 43 hours of local news every week, serving more than one million households in a 23-county area in North Carolina and Virginia. Eyewitness News also provides news, weather and sports information 24 hours a day on ABC11.com, as well as serving two additional digital channels, the HD Live Well Network on 11.2 (Time Warner Ch. 112) and the Live Well Network on 11.3 (Time Warner Ch. 113). With Disney | ABC Television Group programming reaching millions of viewers each week, the networks are ideal platforms to inspire viewers to drive positive change in their communities. Additionally, Disney | ABC employees across the globe continue to contribute their time and efforts to the local neighborhoods in which they work and live. For more information, visit abc11.com<http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/index>.

The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. Being a good corporate citizen is a time-honored Disney tradition. Through contributions, collaborations with local organizations, in-kind gifts and volunteering, Disney helps to brighten the lives of kids and families in need and strengthen communities around the world. In 2012, the Company donated more than $292 million in cash, in-kind support and products, and Disney VoluntEARS gave over 586,000 hours of service. For more information, visit thewaltdisneycompany.com<http://thewaltdisneycompany.com>.

KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to giving kids the childhood they deserve by bringing play to those who need it most. Children today spend less time playing outdoors than any previous generation, a fact that is having disastrous consequences on their health, achievement levels, and overall well-being. Social entrepreneur Darell Hammond founded non-profit KaBOOM! in 1996 in Washington, D.C. with a vision of creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America because children need to play actively every day at home, in school and in their communities. Since then, KaBOOM! has mapped over 90,000 places to play, built more than 2,300 playgrounds, and successfully advocated for play policies in hundreds of cities across the country. KaBOOM! also provides communities with online tools to self-organize and take action to support play on both a local and national level. Hammond chronicles the founding of the organization and the importance of the cause of play in his The New York Times Best Seller KaBOOM!: A Movement to Save Play,<http://book.kaboom.org/> now out in paperback. The book details how businesses and communities can work together to save play for children across the country. All author proceeds support KaBOOM!. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has an office in San Mateo, Calif. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org<http://www.kaboom.org/>.
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