The Friends of Chimborazo Playground has the details on today’s playground building and their extensive list of sponsors (including Country Style Donuts!): About 300 volunteers built a new playground and a community garden today. By 2pm, volunteers and workers from Home Depot, KaBOOM! and the Church Hill community built a new playground, 16 garden plots, [...]
The KABOOM Chimborazo Park Playground Build Day is tomorrow, Thursday September 10, starting at 8AM (rain or shine). Want to be a part of this? All you need to do is show up and you will be matched in a work group according to your desires and skills, and the plans and areas needing helping [...]
Garden beds at the new Chimborazo Park Playground are available for leasing and going fast: The beds are approximately 100 square feet, and are raised beds of about 16″ deep. They will be built along with the playground on build day, Sept. 10th, including a compost/soil mix that is ready for planting. It is a [...]
Approximately 75 volunteers from Church Hill will help build a new playground at Chimborazo Park on Thursday, Sept. 10. Like an old-fashioned barnraising, the new playground will be built from start to finish in one day.
A message from the Friends of Chimborazo Playground: If you’ve always wanted to volunteer and make our neighborhood a better place, here’s an easy way to do it. We need 75 volunteers from Church Hill to help build the children’s new playground at Chimborazo Park on Thursday, Sept. 10. You don’t have to be handy [...]
The Chimborazo Playground KaBoom! Design Day, “a chance for kids and adults to collaborate and design the playground and potential side projects”, kicks off this afternoon beginning at 4PM. The kids draw, everyone eats, and then the adults work with KaBoom project team to turn kids designs into reality!
All invited to come out for a Chimborazo Playground community meeting on June 8th, 7PM at the Libby Park House (E. Franklin & 28th St.). Meeting agenda will include the status of playground project, Parks and Recreation funding, project options, and discussion.
An message from Bridgette Huff of the Friends of Chimborazo Playground has some bad news and some good news: All capital improvement projects (such as renovations to Chimborazo Park Playground) have been completely cut from the mayor’s budget (2009-2013). The Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Facilities said they will be operating on a bare-bones budget [...]
Church Hill Association meeting tonight at 7PM @ St.John’s, probably to be less contentious than the last… The Friends of Chimborazo Playground has asked the CHA for funds to improve Chimborazo Park and will be up for vote tonight.
Friends of Chimborazo Playground has an update on some recent improvements at the playground: Custom Design Controls rewired and installed 11 new lights at the playground. The generous donation included all labor and materials. In addition, Custom Design Controls lowered one of the basketball backboards to its proper height and hung a new net on [...]
Friends of Chimborazo Playground has word that BAM Architects has revised the Master Plan for the park based on last meeting’s feedback, removing one each of the initially proposed tennis and basketball courts.
After several years without lighting at the Chimborazo Playground, new lights were recently installed through the generosity of Custom Designed Controls, LLC, a Georgia-based lighting design, manufacturing and contracting company. The offer to replace the lights was made by one of the company owners who lives in the Church Hill area. He kindly donated the [...]
