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Mounds view School District Na 621 <br />Pinewood Elementary School <br />55000ulncyStrest • Mounds View, Minnesota • 55112 • Phone (612(784.4008 <br />Patricia 0. Erlandson, Principal <br />For more information contact: <br />Mary Bradley. <br />780-1088 or 784-4006 <br />October 7, 1987 <br />"Imagine your own playground. What would you put into it?" <br />That's what the children. at Pinewood Elementary School will <br />be asked when nationally acclaimed architect Robert S. <br />Leathers comes to their school on November 18 for their <br />-•'?_;� <br />playground Design Day. <br />*= <br />Design Day is the first stage of the Pinewood Playground <br />Project which the PTA authorized at its September 15 <br />meeting. Prior to Design Day the children will make on -site <br />visits to unique playgrounds, do drawings, build replicas, <br />write essays and songs in preparation for the event. On <br />"round table" discussions <br />Design Day the architect will hold <br />teachers, playground committee members <br />with the children, <br />and the community as well as make the first schematic design-+ <br />suited for the Pinewood -Mounds View community. Children <br />will watch the architect while he works on the actual <br />design. <br />Robert S. Leathers, Architect, is well known for his <br />creative playground projects, which he has built in over 350 . <br />communities around tte country. A Leathers pleground at <br />Pinewood will be Lhe first in the Minneapolis/St. Paul <br />netrop'_itan area, the only other in the State being in <br />Braham, Mn. His playgrounds are a collaboration of the <br />professloudl architect, children, and adult volunteers. The <br />result is a unique, imaginative, safe, quality playground. <br />Development takes place in three parts: <br />DESIGN: The proposed site is assessed, children's <br />teachers', parents' and community input is obtained, and <br />schematic drawings are rendered. <br />ORGANIZATION: Volunteer coordinators form a core committee <br />which organizes all aspects of the playground using outlines <br />from the architect. Volunteers will raise funds, secure <br />donated materials and tools and organize tools, food, <br />childcare and volunteers for construction weekend. <br />