The Riverside Community School District is excited to get the playground equipment installed and have a great play space for their students at Carson Elementary. Superintendent Tim Mitchell says Madeline Gordon, a Girl Scout in the community, has been working on her Gold Award Project over the last two years to make the playground a reality.  Mitchell said she has been working to help raise money and to get the project completed.

All the playground pieces have now finally been delivered to Carson and Madeline is moving onto her next steps.  She has organized a group of people to come in and complete the install on Saturday, September 28, 2019 and Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 8:00 AM on both days.  With the supervision of Scott, the building coordinator, from Cunningham Recreation, she has volunteers ready to go.  Mitchell says Madeline and Jamie Meek, Grade PK-5 Principal, have also been working on getting together everything that is needed for the installation.

The Superintendent says “We know many of you would like to volunteer to help assemble the playground with us.  Right now, we have enough volunteers for the install, but please feel free to show up and be ready in case we need more help.  Everyone is welcome to come and watch the playground install.” If you have questions or would like to donate something for those days, please contact us at 712-484-2212.

Mitchell says “We are very excited to get this next phase done for the Carson Elementary.  If everything works out, on September 30, 2019 we will have a new playground to play on and then we can move to installing a basketball court.”