What they say....
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Here in Edina, the City fathers have been discussing the purchase of new playground equipment for about three years. There has been no new playground equipment at Miller Friendship Park for some 25 years. Quality playground equipment is horribly expensive and the City fathers didn't want to spend over $10,000.
A couple of months ago, I went to visit Scott Meredith, the director of Kirksville Parks and Rec. and he gave us a lot of good advice based on his hard earned experience. He hooked us up with Pat Puebla of Fry & Associates out of Kansas City. Pat made the purchasing process a breeze. In his two visits with the City Council, they went from not having a clue what they wanted to ready to purchase right now.
To save $$$$, the City fathers decided we would put the equipment together ourselves, but we would pay Fry & Assoc. for their supervision package. Construction was scheduled for Saturday June 19th.
The night of June 18th, I had trouble sleeping because I was just like a kid at Christmas. I was so excited to begin construction.
Kelvin Gales of Fry & Assoc. showed up shortly after 7AM and it didn't take long to figure out that the supervision was money well spent as Kelvin knows every little trick in the book due to his 18 years of experience in the playground construction business. At 1:35PM, I signed off for Kelvin's paperwork with Fry that their part was done.
By shortly after 3PM, we were done with the border ( 8" X 8" X 8' white oak timbers from Cardwell Lumber of Novelty, MO) and had the wood fiber material in place to protect the little kiddies when they fall. Even though the border and fiber weren't part of Kelvin's job, his advice probably cut our time & labor at least in half. Ron York's tracked Cat skid-loader didn't hurt any either.
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Dave
Edina, MO
When we say "In Play we Trust"- we are not being whimsical, nor do we not take what we do seriously. We do , however, recognize that the end goal of our work is to bring smiles, laughter, giggles, relaxation, learning, socialization, peace, escape, safety, and everything else that play represents to everything that we do. We do not simply provide tubing, steel, wood and plastic in different forms. We create environments for all ages to play and enjoy their environment.
