Tenakee School Playground

04/03/2024

The Tenakee School Playground is up! We finished installation of our new-to-us playground.

Thanks and appreciations for
Andrew and Judy Campbell for donating the playground equipment and many sacks of shredded rubber. Mark Millea for leading the construction team, figuring out the design, planning the site, leveling the site, building wooden molds for concrete, heavy equipment operation, site cleanup, and troubleshooting & solving unexpected problems. Dan Kenedy for days of heavy equipment operation, including leveling the site, digging holes for concrete work, and relocation of large boulders and debris. Rudy Ziel for many hours of forklift work and days of tree removal. Isabel Saeta and Google for paying for most of the shipping costs for transporting the equipment and shredded rubber from Juneau to Sitka.
Chichagof Conservation Council for accepting a pass-through grant from Google for shipping costs. Sea Level Transport for shipping equipment from Juneau to Tenakee. All the donors from our GoFundMe campaign who contributed over $5,000 to the cause. Playground Leadership Committee (Megan Moody, Rick Petersen, Nikita Chase, Flint Allred, Kevin Allred, Deena Hand, Frances Ziel, Gordon Chew) for planning and preparations. Kevin Allred, Flint Allred, Ben Taylor, and Ray Hand for volunteer labor during construction. JT Chase for woodcutting.
Gordon Chew for removal of a small mountain of garbage from the site. Chris Mertl for advice. The City of Tenakee Springs for contributions of 3 pallets of cement, several loads of crushed rock, and for loaning heavy equipment including a forklift, backhoe, cement mixer, and soil compactor.

03/22/2022

Great first event! Thanks everyone who helped organize, and for those who came. It was so fun to have a potluck after two years staying apart. We had butcher paper out and both kids and adults imagined dream playgrounds. Here are some of the photos.

03/16/2022

Please join the playground committee for a lunch potluck on Friday, March 18th at 1pm at the community center. The event will include a potluck meal (playground committee is bringing the main course: halibut, salmon and burgers), a slideshow presentation, games and a scavenger hunt for the kids, followed by a community excursion to the school and grounds for a tour. Please bring a snack or side to share. Invite your friends. All are welcome. If you are farther away, please join for the 10-15 minute presentation via zoom at 1:30pm. Link is on ebbtides, or DM me for the link.

03/15/2022

Our first step is fundraising!

The newly-formed Tenakee playground committee is working to raise money for a new community-des… Megan Moody needs your support for Tenakee School Playground

03/15/2022

Hi Tenakee Community! We are trying to build a new community-designed and community-built playground. This page is one place where we will post updates to our community far and wide.