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Ready, set slide. The 500 children at C.E. Rose Elementary School are buzzing about the new playground that appeared over the weekend. On Saturday, March 5th over 300 volunteers joined together to build a playground at the school, located at 710 W. Michigan. This community effort of parents, teachers, doctors, nurses, and administrators, with the help of the national non-profit KaBOOM!, was the result of months of planning and fundraising. More>

MARY BUSTAMANTE
Tucson Citizen
Wednesday, March 9, 2005

It was a less-than-12-hour transformation. Up from a dusty, barren plot of ground at C.E. Rose Elementary popped a bright aqua, plum and yellow "dream playground," based in large part upon drawings by children at the South Side school. More>

Orthopaedic doctors say safe play and exercise are essential to building healthy bones

KABOOM!! A slide, a tower, a climbing wall -- red, yellow, blue, green -- a place where all children can play together safely – will be a dream come true for 500 children at the C.E. Rose Elementary School, located at 710 W. Michigan, in Tucson. In a single day, Saturday, March 5th, surgeons, staff, families and friends of Tucson Orthopaedic Institute, in partnership with the national non-profit organization KaBOOM!, will join with parents and teachers from the C.E. Rose community in building a playground for the school. The handicapped-accessible structure will be erected by the team of 200 volunteers in about seven hours. More>

KABOOM!! A slide, a tower, a climbing wall…red, yellow, blue, green…and a dream come true for 500 children at the C.E. Rose Elementary School – a place where all children can play together safely. More>

If there is one thing doctors are not taught in medical school, it's how to assemble a playground designed by South Side elementary students.
 
Physicians at Tucson Orthopaedic Institute, 2424 N. Wyatt Drive, are raising about $60,000 for equipment to manually build a playground at C.E. Rose Elementary School in one day next March with the help of national nonprofit group Kaboom and community members. More>

With crayons and markers in hand, children from the C.E. Rose Elementary School in Tucson will spend an afternoon (Thursday, December 9) designing the playground of their dreams – a place where all children can play together safely. Then, in a single day (March 5, 2005), orthopaedic surgeons from Tucson Orthopaedic Institute, in partnership with the national non-profit organization KaBOOM!, will lead a team of volunteers to physically build it. More>

Many a proud parent will be shocked to hear that 177,395 childhood injuries treated at hospitals in 2002 were the results of accidents on playground climbing equipment. Injuries on swings totaled 137,681 and on slides there were 98,047.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has launched the “Prevent Injuries America!”® campaign to promote playground safety guidelines to supervising adults, including recreation managers, daycare workers, babysitters, and school and city officials, as well as parents who may not be aware of the hazards. More>