Cramp School Community Playground Opens To Public
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- What used to be worn blacktop with a deteriorating metal pole stuck in the center has been converted into a green play space outside the Cramp School in North Philadelphia.
Latina dancers, a color guard composed of Boy Scouts from the Cramp student body, and speeches praising the community and sponsors marked the dedication of a new playground on Wednesday.
Principal Deanda Logan says in addition to the typical playground equipment, there are some unique features for students and visitors.
"We also have bird houses," she says. "We also have a bat house, believe it or not, and we also have a butterfly house."
And, Logan says, the school has installed a special learning tool.
"We have a weather station that will do live feeds of the birds in the birdhouses into the classrooms,"she says.
Mayor Jim Kenney calls the new playground a model for the kind of play spaces he says are desperately needed for other neighborhoods throughout the city.
"This is an oasis of space for young people to recreate," Kenney says, "and for the community to come together."
