The Sedgwick Community Playground will be assembled and installed by a group of volunteers from across The Peninsula at a Community Build Day beginning at 7:00 am on Saturday May 20th. After more than a year of fundraising, the Sedgwick Community Playground Committee has entered into a purchase agreement with Ultiplay Corp. of Massachusetts for $45,942.90, which includes the playground apparatus designed and built by Playworld Systems in Pennsylvania, as well as shipping, installation support and surfacing materials. The new play structure will be erected at the Sedgwick Elementary School, 272 Snow?s Cove, in Sedgwick, by an all-volunteer team of local contractors, builders, fishermen, parents and students. Numerous other projects will take place concurrent with the playground build. The 8th grade class will be assembling picnic tables to form an outdoor classroom, other students will be working on garden and landscaping projects, a timber framed gazebo will be erected and the entire student body will be holding its annual Spring Campus Clean-Up activity. The Committee will be serving three meals as well as snacks and drinks for volunteers throughout the day, and The Darling?s Ice Cream truck will be present from 12:00 to 1:30 to provide additional nutritional enrichment. Anyone interested in volunteering can sign up for a shift by calling the Sedgwick School at 207-359-5002, volunteers of all ages & abilities are welcome!
The playground will be dedicated to retiring principal Dr. Donald Buckingham at a ceremony to take place at the school at 2:00 pm on Tuesday May 23rd. During a short program and ribbon cutting, Dr. B, who has been the principal since the opening of the school, will be honored by the students, faculty and staff for his 28 years of service to the Sedgwick School community. The playground will then be officially opened for play, and the public is invited for a quick trip down the slide or a spin on the merry-go-round. For more information, contact Michele Levesque, Sedgwick Community Playground Chair at 207-359-2486 or tophatshine@yahoo.com
