Playground ribbon-cutting kicks off Westside Community Center Fall Festival Oct. 28
Shortly after its completion in early October, the
reconstructed playground sits at the northeast corner of the Westside Community
Center. The photo looks southwest, showing the rest of the center (formerly an
elementary school) in the background.
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A 2:30 p.m. ribbon-cutting for the new playground equipment is scheduled to precede the annual Fall Festival at the Westside Community Center Saturday, Oct. 28.
City dignitaries have been invited for the ceremonial event, according to Aundrea Fuller, the center's marketing coordinator.
The center is at 1628 W. Bijou St.
The festival itself will be from 3 to 6 p.m., featuring free food (including
A contractor crew from the playground
equipment contractor (Churchich Recreation) was in the midst of the installation
process in this photo, taken a few days before the one above.
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Non-scary costumes are welcome.
The 4,000-square-foot playground area is at the northeast corner of the city block the Community Center is on.
This fall, a contractor for Colorado Springs Parks installed new equipment - including swings, a tunnel-slide, climber and turning device - which replaced pieces from the mid-1990s when the site was still Buena Vista Elementary School. Those pieces had been removed by city crews in April.
For more information, call the center at 385-7920 x102.
Westside Pioneer/press release
(Outdoors:
City/County Parks)
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