S T E A M B O AT
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 230
RO U T T
C O U N T Y ’ S
DA I LY
N E W S PAP E R
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Locals win awards Jan Leslie, Donna Hellyer get nod for leadership at Historic Routt County Page 11
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Ski Time Square OK’d Planning Commission approves redevelopment, but reduces vesting period Page 3
SPORTS
MATT STENSLAND/STAFF
Kids run toward the Strawberry Park Elementary School playground Thursday after the universal playgrounds at Strawberry Park and Soda Creek elementary schools were dedicated.
Parks open for business
Universal playgrounds at Strawberry Park, Soda Creek dedicated Jack Weinstein
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Sailors vs. Devils Page 35
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Watch an interview with Let’s All Play co-chairwoman Julie Taulman about Thursday’s playground dedication.
As the pink ribbon fell to the ground, more than 30 children ran screaming onto the new universal playground at Strawberry Park Elementary School. The childrens’ elation followed a short ceremony Thursday evening led by Julie
Taulman and Shelly St. Pierre — co-chairwomen of the Let’s All Play group — to dedicate the Strawberry Park and Soda Creek elementary schools universal playgrounds.
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Ben Northcutt, of the Steamboat Springs Rotary Club, which helped organize last year’s community build of the playgrounds, and Scott Gorman, of Children’s Playstructures & Recreation, of Littleton, also gave short presentations during the dedication. As much as Thursday’s ceremony allowed those who presented to thank everyone who
assisted with the development of the playgrounds during the past two years — from the raising of nearly $1 million to the more than 500 volunteers who helped build the structures — it also allowed the children a chance to play. “It’s really, really, really fun,” said Lowen Epstein, 7, a second-grader at Strawberry See Playgrounds, page 14
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