Playground Fundraising

At the beginning of this school year the Forest Grove CPAC (I am the treasurer) made a decision to start fundraising for a new playground for the children of the school and community of Forest Grove. 

We had all the children at the school (30 kids) draw pictures of what they wanted to see in the new playground, we put it all together in one single play structure, and added a small play structure for toddlers. After applying to a couple different playground suppliers we settled on Henderson Recreational Equipment. The price of the structure we decided on was a whopping $38000! OUCH - BUT!!! Since then we have had bottle drives, Chocolate sales, winter concert raffle, 50/50 draw and a huge Spaghetti dinner and auction at the local legion and recently a coin drive at the school. In 8 months with the support of the Forest Grove community, as well as a couple small grants we have raised $ 19700! I am so blown away by the support we have had for this project - Keep in mind we are a small rural school of 30 children! 

In the recent coin drive - the principal set up a challenge for the kids. If they collected 150 lbs or more of coins he would wear a dress for a day! Well he should have set the bar much higher - they collected a whopping 226lbs in coins amounting to $1274!

What a guy!! Playground pictures in the background! 

We have now put a challenge out to the community of 100 Mile House to raise 226lbs of coins or more and our principal will wear a dress for a day again. I was listening to the radio yesterday and they were talking about our fundraiser and how it would be great to get the Mayor of 100 Mile House join our principal at the school in a dress as well. To our surprise the mayor has agreed to participate as well!

I wanted to share this with you because we are so excited about how far we have come in recent months towards our goal! 

Wish us luck in our continued fundraising efforts - we are hoping we can install this playground next spring!