Hopefully you’ve had the chance to notice the recent improvements to our playgrounds!

Newly installed swing seats and hardware

A total of 137 cubic yards of mulch were added around the swing sets and slides to improve safety for our neighborhood kids (that’s a whole LOT of mulch!).

With all of that new mulch, the swing heights were thrown off, so we took the opportunity to order and install new seats, chains, and miscellaneous hardware. This was all done thanks to the hard work of neighborhood volunteers – and on the swing installations, it was definitely WORK!!!

A huge, huge thank you goes out to:

-Greg & Jill Hemingway for hunting down the correct hardware and tools, ordering them all, organizing a team of volunteers, managing the installation process, and tracking down the mulch vendor that was able to accommodate our needs!

-Randy Shul, our very own resident strong man, who did the bulk of the heavy hitting with the s-hooks to install the new swings. That was a really, really tough job and we appreciate you!

-Tommy Dietz for assisting with chain cutting & s-hook installations after being not-so-voluntarily volunteered for another HOA project (he also helped weed and tidy up the 9 Mile entrance recently). Tom kindly tested out the new swings, and according to him, they are up to par and ready for our local children to safely enjoy!

Local residents volunteering their efforts to install the new playground equipment
Volunteers testing out our nearly installed swings and mulch

(A new tire swing is also in the works, so stay tuned!)