GLENDALE : Festival to Benefit School Playground
The group’s name states its goal: Make Keppel Special.
And that’s what the fund-raising group from Mark Keppel Elementary School in Glendale hopes to do Saturday and Sunday with a crafts and carnival festival on campus, 730 Glenwood Road.
The foundation, made up of 15 parents, teachers and staff from Keppel, has been organizing events throughout the year in an effort to raise $40,000 for a new, 50-foot-by-30-foot playground.
“We’re at about $15,000,” said Brian J. Ellis, chairman of Make Keppel Special. “I’d like to raise about $10,000 (from this weekend), which would kick us way over the half-way mark.”
Parents have been pushing for a new playground on campus for the 1,300 students because the current equipment--including a dome and a tower for kids to climb on--dates to the 1940s, Ellis said. The foundation would like to install a set of rings, different slides and updated climbing equipment.
The weekend fund-raiser will feature a holiday boutique of arts and crafts items which will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Twenty-five crafters will sell their work, with a share of the money going to the foundation.
A carnival also will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Tickets cost 25 cents each, Ellis said.
For more information, contact Ellis at (213) 956-4358.
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