We are ecstatic to announce that we got the Kaboom grant!  15 thousand dollars toward the goal!

Thank you to everyone who voted even once (and especially to those who faithfully voted every day), to those who raised awareness in the community, shared on their facebook pages, or got local radio stations and malls involved. 

This is a great victory and we as a community should feel proud.

As some of you may have heard, the playground will be dedicated to
Mrs. Papi, who just retired from teaching second grade after 48 years at the Welch School. 

There will be a dedication ceremony on Wednesday, June 20th at noon. There
will be light refreshments provided.  Please join us if you can!

If you are able to help with set up, contact Dr. Nappi at the school or drop by at 10:30am...

(And please don't forget to keep voting on Facebook!  Still in third place!)

Thanks to all of you who have voted and are voting (again, you can vote once a day and voting is open until June 22).  We are currently in third place! 

That's a great job, but we can't let success go to our heads- keep voting, keep telling more people, and ask those close to you to post it on THEIR Facebook wall.

I'm going to keep this simple.  If you are reading this blog you care about getting Welch kids a new playground.  And so, you need to go here and vote.  Every day.  You can vote once a day until June 22nd.

For right now, it is only available to those of you with Facebook.  But, of course, Facebook is free to get.  While I stop short of suggesting that you get Facebook JUST for this contest, you wouldn't lose any money doing it, at least.

There are 10 videos.  5 will be chosen for $15K grants. 

Now get out there and VOTE!  (And tell your friends, family, and anyone else you know who might vote).