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Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Volunteers Join Forces to Build Tampa Heights Playground

More than 200 volunteers participated in the March 2 project.

More than 200 volunteers from PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group Inc., the Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association, organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the Tampa Heights community joined forces on Saturday, March 2 to build a new playground at the Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association, 2009 N. Lamar St., Tampa. The new playground’s design is based on drawings created by children who participated in a Design Day event in December. Today’s kids spend less time playing outside than any previous generation in part because only one in five children live within walking distance of a park or playground. KaBOOM! has been committed to giving children a place to play since 1996. The new playground will provide more than 200 …

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Community Members Partner to Build Playground in Tampa Heights

A volunteer day to build the playground will be held on Saturday, March 2.

On Lamar Avenue in Tampa Heights, a vacant lot behind an abandoned building that was once a church will soon have a purpose. Members of the community are partnering with KaBOOM! and PNC Bank to build a playground for the neighborhood's kids in an area of town where some parks lack playground equipment, and to help combat childhood obesity. A volunteer day will be held on Saturday, March 2 for anyone interested in pitching in to help build the playground. "We are always looking for opportunities for our youth," said Lena Young Green, president of the Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association, "and our neighborhood." The playground idea came about last year, when officials at KaBOOM!, a nonprofit organization that helps facilitate the creation …

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