Comments on: A place to play http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/02/a-place-to-play/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:13:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Cherie http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/02/a-place-to-play/#comment-2030 Cherie Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:17:58 +0000 http://cnnpagingdrgupta.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-2030 Thanks for this wonderful playground - my family was thrilled to be a part of the build process and my six month old daughter is thankful to everyone! She and her friends will enjoy this play area for many years. I would love a copy of the picture of all of the volunteers at the end (or near the end - us mulch monkeys still had work to do!). Is there any way to get one? Thank you! Thanks for this wonderful playground – my family was thrilled to be a part of the build process and my six month old daughter is thankful to everyone! She and her friends will enjoy this play area for many years.

I would love a copy of the picture of all of the volunteers at the end (or near the end – us mulch monkeys still had work to do!). Is there any way to get one?

Thank you!

]]> By: Al Spears http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/02/a-place-to-play/#comment-1081 Al Spears Wed, 21 May 2008 06:08:33 +0000 http://cnnpagingdrgupta.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-1081 Sounds like a great project and mission. Just wondering, why you chose that playground. It's populated by some of the most affluent members of the city. Sure they were flodded and folks around there lost their stuff, but I'm not sure if they are the most in need of your focus. Al Sounds like a great project and mission. Just wondering, why you chose that playground. It's populated by some of the most affluent members of the city. Sure they were flodded and folks around there lost their stuff, but I'm not sure if they are the most in need of your focus.

Al

]]> By: Cynthia Gentry http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/02/a-place-to-play/#comment-824 Cynthia Gentry Mon, 05 May 2008 22:41:32 +0000 http://cnnpagingdrgupta.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-824 Don't worry, Laura. I was on a KaBOOM! build in Bay St. Louis, Louisiana 3 months after Katrina leveled the town. There was a HUGE old oak in the middle of the build and it was well-cared for and made for a beautiful, beautiful playground . Matt, there are two playgrounds going into CNN's own back yard. The Atlanta Taskforce on Play comes out of KaBOOM's Playful City USA initiative and we're working on getting safe play into the English Avenue area just west of the Georgia World Congress Center. You may remember the sad news from the neighborhood last year when a 92-year-old woman was shot during a botched drug bust. Play impacts so many aspects of a child's health. We're excited about the possibilities ahead. I hope CNNers will come be a part of the playground builds this fall. Check out our winning KaBOOM! video starring CNN's own Fredericka Whitfield. http://www.kaboom.org/FunStuff/KaBOOMPlayfulCityUSAVideos/tabid/628/Default.aspx?PageContentID=226 Don't worry, Laura. I was on a KaBOOM! build in Bay St. Louis, Louisiana 3 months after Katrina leveled the town. There was a HUGE old oak in the middle of the build and it was well-cared for and made for a beautiful, beautiful playground .

Matt, there are two playgrounds going into CNN's own back yard. The Atlanta Taskforce on Play comes out of KaBOOM's Playful City USA initiative and we're working on getting safe play into the English Avenue area just west of the Georgia World Congress Center. You may remember the sad news from the neighborhood last year when a 92-year-old woman was shot during a botched drug bust.

Play impacts so many aspects of a child's health. We're excited about the possibilities ahead.

I hope CNNers will come be a part of the playground builds this fall. Check out our winning KaBOOM! video starring CNN's own Fredericka Whitfield.

http://www.kaboom.org/FunStuff/KaBOOMPlayfulCityUSAVideos/tabid/628/Default.aspx?PageContentID=226

]]> By: Laura R., Wheeling, WV http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/02/a-place-to-play/#comment-802 Laura R., Wheeling, WV Sat, 03 May 2008 22:28:36 +0000 http://cnnpagingdrgupta.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-802 Looking at the big old tree brought back a wonderful but sad memory of some great big shady oak trees that grew on school property, that me and about a million ofther kids used to play under. Well, my heart was broken when they tore them down to put up a playground. I hope that in the building of your playgrounds--a wonderful thing to do--that you never have to tear down another single tree. Kids need trees. That grove that I remember playing under was turned from a cool oasis into a desolate, scorching hot, mostly grassless field. All the swings were exposed to the sun, too. Nobody ever plays there now. So sad. Looking at the big old tree brought back a wonderful but sad memory of some great big shady oak trees that grew on school property, that me and about a million ofther kids used to play under. Well, my heart was broken when they tore them down to put up a playground. I hope that in the building of your playgrounds–a wonderful thing to do–that you never have to tear down another single tree. Kids need trees. That grove that I remember playing under was turned from a cool oasis into a desolate, scorching hot, mostly grassless field. All the swings were exposed to the sun, too. Nobody ever plays there now. So sad.

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