SPRING COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND PROJECT

This playground was built by the Spring community for the betterment of the Spring community ultimately for the enjoyment by our children with community donations and community volunteer labor. It was built in 5 DAYS from January 29th to February 2nd 2003 with over 900 community volunteers. A large majority of the volunteers were parents, grandparents and friends of students from Hirsch, Smith and Jenkins Elementary Schools. We also had volunteers from Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Kingwood, Conroe, Laredo, and Mexico.

There were many community groups involved that supported this project both monetarily and with volunteer participation. We would like to thank those volunteer groups for the numerous hours of labor that went into the building of this magnificent facility.

The following is a partial list of groups –

Harris County Community Service Corp, Girl Scout Troop 3153, Boy Scout Troop 1565, Cub Scout Pack 65, Knights of Columbus Council #6557, Spring Volunteer Fire Department, St. James Youth Group, St. Mary’s University San Antonio– Service Learning Center, Lion’s Club – Spring, Spring High School Student Body, Spring

High School Girls Basketball Team, Spring High School Volleyball Team, Dueitt Middle School Shop Classes, PTOs from Hirsch, Smith and Jenkins Elementary Schools, Twin Creeks Middle School Student Body and Dueitt Middle School Student Body, Lucent Technologies Engineering Group Volunteers, and Hays Utility Service Volunteers.

Photos from fundraiser at Smith Elementary School

The planning started in August 2001 by Timber Lane Utility District. The land for the playground was donated by Timber Lane Civic Association to Timber Lane Utility District to develop and maintain. Then Timber Lane Utility District hired an architect Leathers and Associates that specializes in community built playgrounds to design, develop, and manage the construction of this playground in January 2002. The Design Day event took place in May 2002 at Hirsch Elementary School with students from each grade level providing input into the design and ended that evening when the design was presented to the public at a parents meeting and the formation of the various committees to plan for the construction, funding, and volunteering began. The committees meet from May 2002 through December 2002. The next step involved several fundraisers, which took place from September 2002 through December 2002. The fundraisers included “Pennies For The Playground” at Hirsch, Smith and Jenkins Elementary School, Picket Fence Fund Raiser, and Corporate Sponsorships. We had many corporate sponsorships- Aurous Development, Redfin Development, D.R.Horton Homes, Pulte Homes, Royce Homes, Union Pacific Railroad, Spring Pizza Buffet, JVI Sign Company, Ad-A-Print, Hays Utility Service Corporation, Van De Wiele Engineering Inc., Smith, Murdaugh, Little and Bonham, LLP, Lucent Technologies, Inc., Whites Construction Company, CET Limited, Ascrete, Deitz-Crain Homes, Dorsett Brother Concrete, Morrison Supply, Lowes, Home Depot, Jack Roach Ford, Bayside Printing Company, The Lemmon Family, Champion Rentals, DINA Industries, BFI, Makita Tools Inc., Ocanas Electric, Affordable Tents, Sholl-Forest Industries, United Rentals, SER Construction, The Lemmon Family, Home Depot, Lowes, Knights of Columbus, United Rentals, Grubbs Vidio, Pavestone and Hidden Valley Wrecker.

The final step was the construction.

It began with donated construction equipment including 2 bull dozers, 1 track hoe, 1 backhoe, 1 all-terrain forklift, 3 bob cats, 1 boom truck and 1 light stand. During the 5 days it took to build this playground we served 2400 meals to the workers with food donated by the children at the elementary schools, we installed 6 semi trucks full of ground cover-600 cubic yards, we spread 10 dump trucks full of crushed limestone for drainage underneath the playground, we installed 44,000 screws soaped by the children, we transported and installed 28,730 board feet of ACQ treated lumber, we transported and set 260 ACQ treated posts in the ground, we routed and sealed 114,920 linear feet of lumber, we drilled and installed 1320 lag screws, we covered and installed 490 feet of chain, we applied 70 gallons of sealer, and we hammered in 465 pounds of nails.

PLEASE USE THIS FACILITY WITH CARE KNOWING IT WAS BUILT BY A CARING COMMUNITY FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WITH DONATION BY MANY OF OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES.

SCPP Committee-

 

Dedicated by Jerry Eversol, Precinct 4 Commissioner, Marsha Warkin, Hirsch Elementary Principal, and Dr. Hinahosa, SISD Superintendent on February 2nd 2003 5PM.

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