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A Big Step Towards a Handicap Accessible Playground
Cathleen Moxley
Many have fond childhood memories of playing on the playground.
Now, the Junior League of Parkersburg is reaching out to the community to make sure every child gets that opportunity.
Thanks to the McDonald's in the traffic circle and the southside of Parkersburg, the Junior League now has $1,755 to go towards the JuLePs Pathways playground.
JuLePs is an acronym for Junior League of Parkersburg.
The plan is to refurbish the existing playground in city park, to make it handicap accessible.
It's a project that will benefit children with disabilities and their parents.
"They realize that their children couldn't play with other children here in the community, and we really felt that we wanted to partner with the whole community and make an area that everybody could use," Julie Smith, a Junior League member, said.
The project is expected to cost three to five hundred thousand dollars total, and the junior league hopes to break ground as soon as more grants and donations come in.
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