FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 23, 2010         

CONTACT: John Schuster
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
305-995-1126

Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho; Blue Lakes Elementary faculty and staff, more than 200 volunteers from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, organizers from KaBOOM!, residents and community partners

Building of “Imagination of Playground in a Box” in Just One Day

Saturday, August 28, 2010
8 a.m. to 9 a.m.  -     Kick-off ceremony
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. -     Construction of Playground
2 p.m. to 3 p.m.  -     Ribbon-cutting ceremony

Blue Lakes Elementary School
9250 S.W. 52nd Terrace
Miami, FL  33165

The new playground will provide the nearly 600 children, who attend Blue Lakes Elementary, with a safe place to play. It is one of 13 playgrounds being built by KaBOOM! and the Knight Foundation this year.  KaBOOM! is building more than 150 playgrounds across the country this year in an effort to provide every child in America with a great place to play.