 Although summer is during to a close, the South Portland Recreation Department still has many projects in the works. Leslie McVane talked with Parks and Recreation Director Rick Toll about the ways the department is making information about these projects available in an online interactive format. Well, Rick, summer is winding down and fall is fast approaching. The South Portland Recreation Department has some things going on, online especially right now. Yeah, we're fortunate in the fact that with the internet access that we have here in the greater Portland area, you can access our programs and recently we updated our brochure as they call it, but we're trying to, an evolutionary process, modernize it quite greatly. You have a new playground. Oh, absolutely. We have a wonderful playground system that we're about to install in the Wainwright Recreation Complex located off from Highland Avenue and Gary on my other drive. That system is manufactured by landscape structures. Our park staff will be putting it in and it's not only recycled material is going to be used in a high content of that. It's also got a rubber bonded rubber surfacing in it instead of the engineered wood fiber or mulch as most people call it that you'd characterize in a playground. So it creates a much more stable and uniform surface and it lasts a lot longer. We don't have to keep taking the mulch out and then keep putting it back in. So when kids fall off, they sort of bounce back? Yeah, they do. And some of them, you know, they'll bounce probably all the way to, you know, across the system. It sounds kind of great. It is because when they fall directly, instead of, you know, how kids when they run and they make paths and grooves, instead of having that situation, it'll be consistent. It'll always be that uniformity that you like to see in a safety surfacing. I'm looking forward to seeing that and there's a way to interact online. Oh, absolutely. Introducing the new playground design to the city as a director, I wanted also to be something that the public could interact with. And if you go on southportland.org on a website and you go to Parks and Recreation and you look on the tabs on the right and you click on it, it'll say the Wayne Wright Recreation Complex Playground Project and you'll go into a website with a password and it's really neat. You interact with it and it'll give you a 360 degree view of it, it'll give you the layouts of it. I encourage parents to do it with their kids because if you have inquisitive kids that like to build things or how stuff gets done, it's really neat to see in phases how all that happens and how it's supposed to be built and the colors are really nice. The kids will like it. I encourage parents to try it. And I think it's important to involve the kids. We saw that here in Portland on the east end. Yes. They might take out the monkey bars and the kids protested and they might get put right back in now. Well, and I think, you know, as you update equipment and some of the laws have changed and I mean, ranging from when the, remember the steel slides that you and I probably went on and boy did those this time of the year. Oh my gosh, they hurt. It was so hot. Yeah. And so ranging from that to a lot of updates, but this is really neat the way we do it. All right. Well quickly before we end, update us on what's happening with the Mill Creek Park. The park is moving along quickly. It'll be done within the next four weeks or so structurally. The plantings are now starting to be put in place. We've done the gazebo area, which is phase one. We've completed the plaza so you can stand on that and look over the park. And now we're moving on to the formal gardens with the granite pathways and all the vegetation that you'll see. And we can follow up on that because it's really neat. And then it's moving over to the veterans green. We had the groundbreaking with the mayor and the city manager to appreciate and thank them. And those paths will be put in last but not least so that we do the least damage to that area. So those two phases are coming and we look forward to those being fun too. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. And I hope people go to the webpage and interact. Get out there and be active. Thank you. Thank you.