Kids design memorial playground.Students at the Brooklyn Brooklyn (br  k`lĭn), borough of New York City (1990 pop. 2,300,664), 71 sq mi (184 sq km), coextensive with Kings co., SE N.Y. , N.Y., P.S. 217 school saw the fruits of
their labor on June 20 when the playground Playground - A visual language for children, developed for Apple's Vivarium Project. OOPSLA 89 or 90? they designed was dedicated
in honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. of a fallen community police officer.
The P.S. 217 playground was a joint effort between the students and the City Spaces program of the Trust for Public Land, which made a $1 million investment. The funding was made possible by lead private funding from the J.M. Kaplan Fund and a two-to-one funding match made by the Department of Education. A team of third through fifth-grade students met with teachers and parents to design the playground. The one-acre area, dedicated to police officer Francis Hennessy, includes basketball courts, an artificial turf Artificial turf, or synthetic turf, is a grass-like man-made surface manufactured from synthetic materials. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass, however, it is now being used on residential lawns and commercial field, running track, a play spray and shade trees. |
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