Ladysmith Chronicle, July 03, 2012

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Mike Southwell of Ladysmith and his two-year-old son, Giles, show their Canadian pride Sunday morning during Canada Day celebrations at Waterwheel Park in Chemainus. For more Canada Day photos from Chemainus and Ladysmith, please turn to pages 12 and 13.

The Brown Drive Kin Park playground has been a volunteer-driven community effort from the very beginning, and this weekend, the Ladysmith Kinsmen Club is hoping to bring out the community one more time to install the final phase of the playground. The majority of the Brown Drive Kin Park playground is here and waiting to be installed, and the Kinsmen are organizing a work party this Saturday and Sunday at the park, which is on Colonia Drive near Brown Drive. The plan is to start Saturday at 8 a.m., as they need to have the site ready by the time the concrete donated by Mayco Concrete arrives at 1:30 p.m. The Kinsmen are also hoping to get some of the site preparation done this Friday. “We have to move all the wood chips to dig the holes in the ground on the Friday and Saturday morning so that when the concrete comes, we’ll be able to stand the apparatus up and put it in the ground,” explained Duck Paterson of the Kinsmen. “We want to try to get as much of this stuff done in advance so that when the volunteers come on Saturday, we can finish off the holes and they can put the apparatus together.”

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The playground equipment is coming from Henderson Recreation Equipment Ltd., and Henderson told the Kinsmen that if they completed Phase 3 of the playground this year, they would donate a swing set, so a tots’ swing set will be installed. Two picnic benches will also be placed in the grassed area between the play structures. “That’s the final fundraising part,” said Paterson. “We weren’t quite there, and Lealand Contracting said they’d buy one of the picnic tables.” The work party is going to start at 8 a.m. on Saturday, but Paterson says people can show up at any time — and they don’t even have to work. They may just want to watch this community project wrap up. “With the work and time so many people have put in, it’s really been a community effort,” said Paterson. “We received two gaming grants and money from the Town, but all the rest of it has been people just wanting to see it happen.” The Brown Drive Kin Park project began as a dream almost immediately after its rotting predecessor had to be torn down nearly three years ago. The playground is being built in three phases, and this structure — which is geared toward children aged five to 12 — is the final See Volunteers Page 3

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