Doug Scudder of Smith Barney presents a  $6000 check to Project Playground General Coordinator James King.  In addition to this generous donation, Smith Barney is also taking two afternoons to come help build the playground!

Alaskan & Proud proudly presents a donation for $2300 to Project Playground on May 9, 2007 at Twin Lakes.

Build Weeks!

Foodland A&P Receipt Event! Shop Alaskan and Proud on Friday, March 30 and drop your sales receipt* in the boxes provided. We will donate ten percent of the receipt total (less tobacco products and sales tax) to purchase equipment for the Twin Lakes Playground.

Children's Committee Meeting!

Glacier Valley Rotary Club Boat Show! Project Playground will be there selling t-shirts and Heritage Coffee's limited edition Project Playground Blend! Stop by the show at Centennial Hall and sign up to volunteer for Build Week. Make sure to sign up early to get your preferred time slot.

Homebuilders Association Home Show! Project Playground will be there selling t-shirts and Heritage Coffee's limited edition Project Playground Blend! Stop by the show at Centennial Hall and sign up to volunteer for Build Week. Make sure to sign up early to get your preferred time slot.

ORGANIZATION DAY! After many months of work, Project Playground Coordinators will get together with a representative from Leathers and Associates, Inc. to check our progress and map out a strategy for the final stages of our project. We will spend the day reviewing the site and final design. We will also review schedules, plans, responsibilities, and other details for construction.

The Harvest Festival was a huge success!! Project Playground held its fall fundraising event at the ANB Hall with food, games, a fortune teller, cake walk, haunted house, costume contest, and door prizes.

BIG THANK YOU'S to everyone who came for fun and support the playground; to all the volunteers for their time and effort; to The Hangar and Udder Culture for the chili; to Rainbow Foods for the salad; to TK Maguires for the cornbread. Click here to see the Juneau Empire story.

Glacier Valley Rotary held a Rubber Duckie event at Twin Lakes on Saturday, Sept. 30. Project Playground volunteers participated by selling hot dogs, t-shirts, pickets and raffle tickets.

The day was a great success...we sold out of food and drew the raffle winners! Check out photos from the day.

Community grant for Project Playground
(Juneau Empire) -- Project Playground representatives accept a $5,000 community grant, for the new playground at Twin Lakes, from the Fred Meyer Foundation on Sept. 12 at the future playground site.

From left, Fred Meyer auditor Clara Smedley; Fred Meyer food manager Troy Hendrickson, Project Playground co-coordinator Jerry Adams; Project Playground co-coordinator James King; Fred Meyer apparrel manager Jamie San Miguel; Fred Meyer home manager Joe Nightingale.

Project Playground is a group of community volunteers building a large playground with multiple climbing structures, slides, swings and other play features that will encourage physical activity and creative play for generations of young people. The foundation's community grant program is driven by 29 local advisory committees made up of local Fred Meyer associates who research nonprofit organizations in their communities and then award community grants.

An updated version of the playground schematic has been released!
Click the smaller version on the left to see a larger PDF* view.

Project Playground received lots of support at the annual 4th of July events in Juneau and Douglas! Kids, parents, and supporters marched in the parade, and volunteers sold food at the Douglas festivities, which contributed greatly to project fundraising. Thanks very much to the following businesses for for their generous donations to support the food cart at Sandy Beach: TK Mcquires, Coca Cola of Alaska, El Sombreo Restaurant, Food Services of America, and Heritage Coffee.

To see pictures of Project Playground supporters in the July 4 parade, click here.

And excellent news came when the State of Alaska budget was signed this year: Project Playground has received a $75,000 grant to be put toward the purchase of materials, supplies, and playground design needs!

Day at the Lake is scheduled for June 10! Project Playgound volunteers have organized a fun Day at the Lake at the site of the future playground at Twin Lakes. There will be 1-mile and 2-mile fun runs at noon. Registration is from 10am-12pm; the $15 entry fee will get you a Project Playground t-shirt.

Day at the Lake also kicks off a summer fund-raising raffle; the grand prize is a 8'x6'x8' constructed playhouse! The playhouse will be on display at Day at the Lake. Many other exciting prizes will be raffled as well. For a list of prizes, click here (PDF).*

The playground designers have been busy! The most recent design sketch of the playground is posted here (PDF).*

A Steering Committee meeting is scheduled for June 8 at 5:30pm at the LDS Church at 5100 Glacier Highway. The public is invited to attend, as well as anyone interested in volunteering.

We are asking for suggestions for the playground name. The suggested names can be emailed to juneauplayground@gci.net. We will be asking kids in school for their suggestions as well. After there is a good number of possible names, we will take it to the elementary schools for a final vote.

Our donor list has also been updated, and the donor page now incorporates more information on ways to donate to Project Playground. Note that playground components can be purchased as a donation. The McBrien family, Sue Nielson, Alaska Glacier Seafoods, and Alaska Airlines have each contributed components so far; their names will be inscribed on or near the playground implement that they donated - a special thanks to them! Check out the list of playground components and the current donors here (PDF).* And a current list of individual and business/corporate donors who have purchased personalized fence pickets and made other donations can be viewed here.

And finally, the Children's Committee will be having a potluck BBQ at Twin Lakes on Tuesday, May 23rd at 5:30. They will be marking the footprint of the playground to see how big it really will be! To participate, please contact April Gilbert at aprilsilk@hotmail.com.

The Project Playground Children's Committee recently finished a project with kids to build a scale model of the playground; the model was on display at the Arts and Crafts Fair at the Nugget Mall during the weekend of March 24 and 25.

We enjoyed meeting people, and accepted many new donations in the form of personalized pickets for a fence that will eventually be incorporated into the playground. Thanks to everyone, and thanks very much to the Nugget Mall for donating space for our table at the fair.

Look for the model at public events in the future! To view a larger photo of the model, click the thumbnail on the left.

Design Day was a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated and attended!

A schematic of the playground is now available. Click HERE to see it! (PDF)* Visit the photo album for more design day pictures.