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Island Recreation in the News - Playground Issues in Hawaii - Visit the blog regularly updated by Mike McFarlane of Island Recreation and join the ongoing discussions on playground design, playground safety, playground equipment, and environmentally friendly solutions.
- Working Together on Needed Projects - “A community-built project can be any needed improvement: a bus stop, a picnic area, painting over graffiti or a playground…”
- Playtime Delays - "The DOE should be applauded for what they are doing, not chastised. They are taking the time to look into all the possibilities (of equipment and design) for our very diverse children…It is actually harder and more time-consuming for the vendors to come up with individualized designs for each school than mass-producing one design, which is way more profitable…Remember, this isn't a race. These playgrounds will be around for 30 or more years, and we have only one shot to do it right…"
- Playground Loss Putting Many to Work - “A new playground can cost from $20,000 to $100,000…About half that cost is for surfacing…A new study of Hawaii’s playground surfacing was shocking. Only 2 percent of 98 Oahu public elementary school playgrounds surveyed had adequate surfacing under all the fixtures, according to the study by the state Department of Health Injury Prevention and Control Program…”
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