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[CA_Scouter 11]

Boy Scout turns 'mud pit' into a $60K playground

 

Alex Griffith, 16, was adopted as a sickly baby from a Russian hospital

To give back to his birthplace, he raised $60,000 to build a new playground

The project was part of Griffith's quest to become an Eagle Scout

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/09/10/cnnheroes.alex.griffith/index.html

 

 

 

 

[Eagle92 110]

As i said on this thread

http://www.scouter.com/forums/viewThread.asp?threadID=251042

 

OUTSTANDING!

[GKlose 24]

Whew! I know how much work this is -- I was part of a playground committee for a preschool back around '01, and my wife just finished a 3-year, 3-phase project (as a volunteer) to get a playground rebuilt at one of our local elementary schools (budget cuts in our district have forced elementary school PTOs to fend for themselves, fundraise and arrange for construction). We both were faced with a lot of "helpers" that really just wanted to look through the catalogs and pick out something cool-looking, but there is so much more to building a playground than that (site prep, federal safety regulations, etc).

 

$60k sounds like a lot of money for a playground, but it isn't. It takes real talent to make the money stretch that far to make a usable playground.

 

It's impressive what Alex has done.