 That's Rachel Dugan. My name is Cliff Gamble. Welcome to Design Day. This rally was the culmination of a busy day at three Davis elementary schools. There'll be more about them later. It was also the kickoff for the one-year-long fundraising effort for a very special event. If you were in Davis a little over 10 years ago, you may have been at this meeting or you may have seen my phone number plastered all over town, maybe in the paper, maybe on flyers or maybe even on the radio or on commercial TV. Let me explain. Around that time my wife Sharon and other mothers in Davis had heard about and had been taking our young children to winters to enjoy a wonderful new play structure that had recently been built there. After a few conversations with some of the proud winter's parents we realized just how special that play structure really was. We found out that it was the first Robert Leathers designed play structure in California. We learned he was a famous architect from New York and he had been the designer of play structures in other cities all over the United States. The opening credits of some Sesame Street episodes show his work. He had built over 500 play structures by this time and built them in so many cities that he pulled all the elements together and conceptualized a total package to help communities plan and ultimately build a custom play structure. Each one different and unique because the children in each community assisted with the ideas for their own structure. Safety was always paramount. Well it only took a few trips to winter's wonderful city park for us to realize most of the moms we were meeting there were from our own hometown of Davis. The conversations would inevitably include the questions why don't we have one of these playgrounds in Davis and what do we have to do to get one. Well fortunately for us Ellen Hillard and my wife Sharon did more than just talk about it. They got together with other interested parents and formed a committee called Project Play Park. The committee was primarily formed from contingents in East Davis and South Davis. Charing the committee Hillard was a dynamo. She formed necessary subcommittees, kept in close touch with the New York architects of the Robert Leathers firm and drummed up support from the Davis business community. She even gave a mini proposal on the park to a city councilman who was riding by in a parade. With Ellen in charge we felt that nothing could stop us. Our goal was to build one of the Robert Leathers playgrounds for our children in April 1991. We would build it ourselves asking for help from other parents, grandparents, neighbors and especially from the kids. We needed the help of approximately 2,000 volunteers for the four-day build. Everyone could do something and just like the old-time barn raisings we'd do it because it would be good for our community and the community would also benefit when instead of spending over $200,000 of taxpayers' money for someone else to build us this terrific play structure we would do it ourselves for less than $75,000 all from donations and fundraisers. The big kickoff for the project was this design day June 11th 1990. There were many media opportunities throughout the day as the architect Rachel Dugan and designers from local Davis Ridge builders met with Davis elementary school children to hear their ideas for the play structure. Rachel sketched preliminary plans for our playground while children adults and cameras looked on. Next she met with the children's design committee a randomly selected group of kids eager to learn first hand about design, construction and fundraising. Spirits were high at this meeting but it was over by 4 p.m. so the children could get their parents ready for the evening rally. Everyone was invited to view the architect's slide show, the children's display of their playground artwork and the plans for our original Davis playground. It was guaranteed to be a big event which also introduced our children's summer long fundraiser pennies from heaven. Well this is the first installment of a series of shows that I and a couple of other dedicated volunteers filmed. We documented the planning and building of Project Playpark ultimately to be known as Rainbow City. So please sit back and enjoy this and the other episodes of a particular year in Davis history. Hi there Adam. Next up is General Coordinator Ellen Hilliard. Now a really important announcement is Jackie Gray and having just gotten it we'd like to make about the winners for the children's logo contest. The winners of this contest will have their logo placed on teachers, bobbins, singers, and cards of jurors, led men, and another announcement is about to be announced. Please stand around. Thank you very much. Now I'd like to thank all our children who have been so many beautiful. We've seen a lot of them around here. We've all seen many of them today. I thank our children because of the park. We were originally going to have to be winners but no way. First of all, even if you're tonight, we'd like you to come up here and see what you should have hit. We have for honorable mention, we have Erin Kuehl, that's Gray, a high leader. Her picture on the program is by Zettie Walker. Zettie, you can do it under her please. Our D.A. Chan and John Green. We are currently the winners. We have a brother competition that's going to work on and that's going to work on. They will also be used on certain levels of our sports fund that we have laid out. All right, thank you for tonight. And Jeffrey Ross. I'm going to be a teacher to be like to buy those also tonight and I will tell we've done a good work for the line that we can do as well. So congratulations to Erin and Jeremy. I'm going to have to draw up three hours of placement. I'm going to be able to have a good time to play out our teachers. I'd also like to introduce you so quickly. We have a fundraiser this evening and in order to build this park we need to raise our second item. We'd like to launch a program that is being called buy board and to start that out for us tonight at Susanna and Emerson and our own Mayor Ryan Corbyn. This park is a place everyone has an opportunity to show that we can visually make a difference. And tonight I'd like to talk to you about a number of different ways that each and every one of you kids and parents, business people, individual, single people can make a difference. One of the first programs that we are launching tonight is a program called Mya Board and this program we are tonight if you would like to buy a board each award for yourself for five dollars if you buy a machine for this you can buy a stator for three boards if you buy a platform. The other way that you can help with this program is we have a patent see-back all of our boards have a new flyer and not my machine and today I'm going to give you a packet of five envelopes through that each envelope contains a little flyer that tells you what each of the different things cost and also a little sticker. These are meant to be social to your friends and family and your neighbors. We don't want any to fit one of us people that don't know but our feeling is as yet all of these seven kids and their families have just been brought into the program each one of those kids sold set twelve dollars we could create four five hundred dollars just to throw it all out and that's not the same thing about all the other actors we're doing. So tonight what we'd like to do is take a packet and take away. In the packet it's a little boring and you get to be each person that buys the board write their name on it and it's not a great decision to buy a first action flyer. We're going to have to check here we're going to buy it all worth saying that we're not going to be a city council that we're extremely pleased with the outwards of the lane failure that we're coming here to organize this community not really that this was too late so why don't we get a wonderful facility but the second way I'm talking about people I find also the sense of community that we do things is like people need each other friendships are made for lifetimes sometimes in projects like this so we're extremely pleased and I'm sure you buy some water since it's not going to develop into a city. These jobs have been placed throughout the city and the idea is that kids will take pennies just ten and put them in their respective schools and announce the degree to a high stream party within our school and this the collection will continue throughout the summer and into the fall. There will be somewhere around Halloween. The locations that we have here for WBD and Fairfield that's the first summer and you definitely call the National Guard and the California Conservation. Those are four biggies. Key back up just a little bit. There are a bunch of individual pictures so I'm going to zoom in on them singularly. Down on your left side a little more, a little more, a little more. Down on your left is a tab and a little too much. There's a lot of relations. By the way, we get a kind of kind of big push. We can come here and see a lot of businesses. We want to have a little presence here. Down there. This is a final representation of all of you out in the day. It's a recording of a large company that you stay in your closet and on your shelf and you're being going to go to the Caribbean with it. It's not going to work. There's a lot of money to come to it. There's a lot of money to come to it because it's like that. So don't you bring a sock and bring it here? No, we don't bring it here. Yeah. And that's fine. What you do is you say, this sock top is the last good collection. Tomorrow morning is the one. It's so weird. Okay. Because there are actually, they laid out something like $6,000. Because I had a lot. She was already going to be there one night. So they laid out $1,000. And they had to figure it out. Bingo, $1,000. They did it. $1,000. Now look. Two years. Two years. Take less than two years. One year. No, this will be built in less than a year. But when we build it, most of that's going to be planning and organization. And I'll talk about that tonight. But when we actually build it, it's only going to take five days. Build all of that. That's because we're going to have thousands of construction workers. I think we're going to find thousands of construction workers. What? Mitch Builder? Mitch Builder. That I hope we get. Parents. Very good. We're going to need parents. Who else? All of you are going to be the construction workers in the playground. You want to help build it? One of the most important things you can do is to come to a meeting tonight at the high school. It's at 7.30 in the multi-purpose room. You're all invited to come and bring your parents. At that meeting, we're going to talk about how you build a playground in five days. And what we have to do before those five days, which are going to happen in April, around next Easter time, what you do between now and April to get ready to build it in just five days. We're going to need lots more help from all of you. Also tonight I'll be able to answer more questions that you have and maybe take some more ideas. Tonight I'll talk a little bit more in detail about what's going to be in the playground because right now I have to go to some other schools and get their ideas. So your ideas and their ideas are going to be put into this playground. Tonight you can hear all of the ideas put together. I'm telling you this morning on a castle I'm going to put that on hold until I talk to the kids. However, we do look to the parents for governing design issues, such as sight and visibility from within the playground speeding. How far you want to go on that is up to you. If you want to bench this, scour it around the playground, and a couple of sort of observation backs, you can do that. If you want to create people, we can do that also. This morning we have a lot of people in a big, big room. Who knows what happens when you have a whole bunch of people in the water? Sounds like fun. But, oh my goodness. Extra about playgrounds. All of you today are my guests. So it's your drive today without needed design this is the best playground in the whole world. You can do that. In the area where you often have soccer ball, right in the team, you can have soccer ball or soccer field. It could be for all of the kids and maybe even some of the adults in Davis. Most importantly it is going to be designed for all of these kids. But if we can build it and it's safe, we will put it into the playground. What do you want to have? A castle that has like an maze in it? A castle is amazing. You guys are worried you might get lost in a maze? No. Okay. Let's go to the round test. Between the rollers. But maybe instead of using rollers, we can find a way to bounce it. So it will be fun. It will be fun. It will be fun. It won't be fun. It won't be fun. It won't be fun. It won't be fun. It won't be fun. We have a problem with the stuff around it. What we could do though is maybe just in the castle some kind of bouncy surface but it's open to the outside and you come to jump on that. So we'll do something special. Okay. A lot. Too tough to build. Roller coaster is getting a lot of space even more space that we have out there which is pretty good size and electricity and various other things those things that make it, that's more of an amusement park ride. One of the pop culture's usually cost money to go on too. This playground's going to be free. Okay, one more. Apply the tools around and it has bumps and more ideas. And if any of you have drawn pictures already or still want to draw pictures and can get those to your teachers, they will give them to me and that can see all of your ideas in the pictures. It's long, large, including yourselves. So you have to keep that in mind. Things that you can come up with, ideas that you can come up with have to be safe. Right now is that each person raised their hands if you want to stand quickly and give your ideas great and so everybody can hear, please, if you don't have any, what's called cross-talking. So let's get some ideas for a good place right here. How about way in the back here? We'll go up in the black. Yes, parallel bars? That sounds like a good idea. How about the blue in there? Pardon me. Swings? Sure. How can you go into this play structure? You have to be able to do that. The maze. The maze is how you change your laws so that if you do it one way, the following way is how the opportunity to do it is different. Now we get to never end. And I think it's a good idea to put trap doors in the maze so that once in a while, it won't move up. You fall down into the sand and you have to call it out And in the playground, you'll find the other maze and you'll find the trap for me and the different slides that you can have fun on. How does that sound? There's been certain experts, bridges, and some play structures, you, in order to be able to get ideas in order to build a play structure here in Davis. I think some of you have seen them one and better. They lose their structure in Davis. We're going to do the same thing here in Davis. We're trying to do it. When we get your ideas for this, it's basically going to be made of wood. It has to be safe for all sizes of people. Small to large. So you have to keep in mind that if it's okay for you, it may be okay for something that's similar to this. Back to you guys. A house. Any kind of house in mind? Any particular structure? Like a tall, structured house. I think when he wants to say wood, we're going to kind of keep above ground for safety, but we could probably do wood tools as you could do. Well, this map of the trees, they didn't get to explain the picture of the park. Rachel will be drawing all of it. Playground news paper. Playground news. The reason your newspaper is not going to come out as of yet. All of the articles are stacked in order to all of these different things. Your idea will keep that mind to something to do this summer. We're going to need photographers and media cameras. We're going to need artists. Somebody needs... Jesse, what exactly are you guys doing today? All of the little things in the play park and then we're going to cut them out and paint them to make a mural. It'll probably be about six or seven of each thing. What kind of things are going to be in there? Maybe a dinosaur. I know that. And so, are you guys functioning... What are you guys functioning as in this project? All the students. What kind of jobs do you have? Get people to help build and flyers and for different schools, we're going to need some pennies off the various places. The person at the end of the year, I think, is going to need pennies. It's a free ice cream, so sure. They're going to be doing lots of different things. They might help raise money for it. And how did you get on the committee? We're all about permission slips, and they put them in the room out of a hat. In my school, there are two people for each grade, and me and the other person in my class are the only two drafted. That's where the people who put in the permission slips. Have you ever been up to the winter's table? Oh, yeah. I went down to my dad with their... We ended up staying for a couple hours. Did you like it there? It's very fun. Did you remember when they were building that, did you get involved, or did you know anyone who helped build that? No, but I see a lot of things in the paper. Do you think you're going to help build this one? Oh, I've been signed up to help build it. Great. Does that sound like fun to you? Yeah. And do you think we have any other questions that would be good questions? Yeah. Well, thank you very much, Jesse, for talking to us, and we're going to be putting you a new TV show for DCTV on Channel 15. So if you want, you can tell your parents to watch, and hopefully you'll be part of it. And my name's Kim. It's really nice talking to you. Thank you. Thank you. That's a good road job. This is Project Playground. Oh, where are you going to put the banner? Do you know? I heard it might be put, like, special events maybe, or? Yeah. Yeah. And how did you guys get involved with Project Playground? We just signed a paper at school that asked us what we wanted. So you're on the kids committee? Yeah. What did you draw? I drew the haunted castle. Uh-huh. And what other kinds of things are they going to have in the Playground? I'm going to have, like, a treehouse. Can I help Bill in the spring? Have you been out to winter? Have you seen the playground? Yeah. Did you like it? Did you think it was a playground or...? That's great. Is yours going to be the same as mine? Or is it going to have different things when it doesn't have, you know? I hope it kind of the same, but it'll be different. All right. Last year, have you seen anything that you'd like to have that they have? They don't have in Winners that you think we should have in the Playground? The stuff, maybe. Or what's your favorite part of the Playground that fits in your drawing today? Meeting tonight. Are you going to put your parents with you at the meeting? Are you going to come to the meeting tonight? There's a meeting at David's. Well, thank you very much, Frederick. Hi, Jack. Are you excited about being part of it? What do you think is your favorite part of doing it? Well, what kind of drawing did you use? Do you want me to stay with us, or do you want me to stay with us? What other kind of things are you going to be in the Playground? Yeah. Did you come up with some ideas of things that you might like to have on these lines? Are there any other? What's your favorite Playground thing that you can think of that you'd like to have? Are you going to help when they start building it? Have you ever been to the Winters Playground that they built? What do you think? What do you think of it as a Playground? Is it better than the other Playgrounds? Is it better than the other Playgrounds? And what grade are you in? How many people from your grade are here today? From your class? Well, thank you very much, Mary, for talking to us. And we're going to be making a documentary on channel to help you guys get cable and then you can watch it all through time. And you can see us, the Dr. Monroe, and your side. A lot of parents who frequent the Winters Park and brought their kids over there on a regular basis started talking and got together and realized that Davis really should have one of these parks. And that's how we organized. And did you find a great response within the kids? Oh, the kids were no problem. It was trying to get the parents together. But once we ran out in the paper when we started getting phone calls, we were able to organize a group of about 15 of us the first evening. So that launched the whole project in the beginning. How many people involved at this point? At this point, I believe we have about 150 names of people who have signed up to help in one capacity or another, whether it's construction or just helping out during the year with parents' volunteer sign-ups. Are you starting to get donations from? We've had more luck with materials donations than we have from financial donations. We hope to launch a couple of our financial fundraisers. We've had a lot of art materials donated, food, raffle gifts. There are only a couple major financial donors. What kind of things are you doing as fundraisers? Is that something about pennies? Tonight we'll be launching pennies from Heaven. And that's a project in which the kids can collect their pennies all summer long and deposit them at various places of business all over town. And then they'll collect those at the end of the summer and deposit them in our account. And then another project we're launching tonight is called Viaboard. And everyone in the community can purchase a board that will help to build the park for $5 a piece. Oh, that's interesting. Were you involved at the dinner party? I knew some people who were involved in the food committee over on the winners' project that had called me about helping out on some food things. I tried contacting Crystal Dairy for them and I'm getting some other various food vendors involved. But I never went to the build. I was busy that weekend, but I really wish I had now that I've gotten so intimately involved with this one. And what is your coordinator, your name tag says, what's your official title? I'm the general coordinator. I'm the one who's kind of overseeing all the more specific committee head positions. And really the bulk of the work is being done by the committee head and I'm just kind of keeping the pieces in place. And so the next step after today is going to be what, after tonight? We'll have quite a few fundraisers over the summer. And after the summer fundraisers we'll be launching again another big push in September with school resumes and get the children's committee going again in full force. We'll have some major fundraisers in the fall and in the winter. And then our next big day is called organization day. And that's about eight weeks prior to the build in April. And that's when we'll start really getting out of it in a gritty to find out how much money we've raised get those materials all organized and get the people all lined up on a phone committee for the big push. Is there anything else you'd like to say that I haven't I've ignored in the aspect, the interesting aspects of the part that other people perhaps are overlooking today? I don't think that it's necessarily being overlooked but one of the things I would like to emphasize is that this project isn't necessarily being done just to build the park. It's also quite a bit of the feeling or the spirit that's involved with the community and getting the community together in this barn raising type experience. And I think the fun of the project and the success of the project is that it's capturing a lot of imagination the kids' ideas and the real enthusiasm of the town. Are you guys all excited about this project? Are you all going to be part of it? Oh, that's great. Yeah, our children's committee just finished up here and helping us out doing posters and banners and murals and thank you letters and they're really going to be the hinging key to this whole success of this building. What we're seeing tonight, great. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Thank you. Great. How old are you, Diane? I'm eight and eight years old. Eight, just from nine. He's in third grade. So really, think about that. PR is really important. We organized a group of parents who were so impressed by the interviews together that we decided that things would not be about one of these parts. And all of you have been so instrumental in helping us get this far. We have officially been approved by the Hearts and Recreation Commission that it will go on to the city council in the next few weeks. And at least for a part of it, we've been able to get to today, which is a design day. And I welcome all of you. It's really nice to have such a true community support. Tonight we have with us one of the broader letters to the associate architect, Rachel Juven, who has worked all day feverishly to get all the kids ideas and she has been to every elementary school that she can save for today. And her design from their ideas I hope you can send this evening. Tonight we have a special children's day group who would like to do a small bit of entertainment for us. So we'd like to invite them up right now and they can hear us on for us.