Playground will be built in single day
Boys & Girls Clubs do own version of 'Extreme Makeover: Home'

By Joanne Cunha
Ventura County (Calif.) Star
June 4, 2008

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme will hold a version of the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" TV show by building a new playground in one day — Saturday — at Southwest Park in Oxnard.

The Amgen Foundation has provided a $62,500 grant for the project, with $7,500 provided by the Boys & Girls Clubs.

"It's really a dream come true," said Tim Blaylock, spokesman for the clubs. "We don't have a playground with play structures. Twenty kids actually helped design the project with KaBOOM.

"They've been doing this model for a long time. It's based on trying to get a community to rally around a project and people taking pride in it." [More]

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