WOODSTOCK – Woodstock Elementary School bustled with activity Saturday morning when grownups took over the playground.
About 30 volunteers, including Woodstock Parents and Teachers Association members, assembled $11,000 worth of new playground equipment for the SAD 44 school.
“This will be so cool,” said Principal Jolene Littlehale on Saturday morning. “I can’t wait for the kids to see it.”
Before Saturday, children had to be content with a sparse selection of playground equipment dating back to 1987.
“They didn’t have much of a playground,” Littlehale said.
Now, they have a lot of shiny new stuff.
Littlehale and others assembled a Superdome, interconnected climbing bars, while others put together a composite play structure, or fitness center.
“The PTA raised a large portion of the money and the school district budgeted part of it, but there were tons of community donations, like wood chips, cement, and food. The donations were more than you could imagine,” she said.
A lot of the money was raised through can and bottle redemptions from donations to the school’s Bottle Shed at the Greenwood Transfer Station.
Savage Construction donated excavation work for the new playground equipment, “which was very nice of them,” Littlehale added.
Volunteers Saturday included “mostly dads, moms, several grandparents, teachers and children” from Greenwood, Woodstock and Bethel.
The equipment was purchased through Dr. Play Associates Inc. of Salem, N.H., which bought the equipment from Playworld Systems Inc. of Lewisburg, Pa.
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