With help from Neighborhood House of Seattle, High Point Open Space Associaion and KaBoom!, the Windermere Foundation (the charitable organization of Windermere Real Estate) will amass over 200 volunteers on Friday, Sept. 23 to build a new playground at Bataan Park in High Point.

State Representatives Eileen Cody and Joe Fitzgibbons will be in attendance for the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Volunteers will start building at 9 a.m. and plan to finish up between 2:30 and 3 p.m. The ribbon cutting will follow shortly thereafter.

Bataan Park is located at S.W. Bataan Dr. and High Point Drive S.W.

Additional information from their press release

More than 200 volunteers from Windermere Real Estate, Neighborhood House of Seattle, High Point Open Space Association and residents of the local community will join organizers from non-profit KaBOOM! on Friday, Sept. 23 to build a new playground at Bataan Park. The new playground’s design is based on drawings created by children who participated in a Design Day event in July.

For 22 years, the Windermere Foundation, which is the charitable arm of Windermere Real Estate, has supported low-income and homeless families in communities throughout the greater Seattle area. This year, the Windermere Foundation’s goal is to build and revitalize parks and activity centers in communities, such as High Point, where there aren’t enough resources to serve the number of children who live there. The new playground will provide more than 500 children in the High Point neighborhood with a safe place to play.

About Neighborhood House of Seattle
The mission of Neighborhood House is to help diverse communities of people with limited resources attain their goals for self-sufficiency, financial independence, health and community building. From our earliest beginnings serving Jewish immigrants in the 1900s to our work today with people from numerous countries and cultures, Neighborhood House has helped generations of families fulfill the promise of America — an education for their children, self-sufficiency for their families and a meaningful place in a caring community. For more information, visit www.nhwa.org.

About High Point Open Space Association
The High Point Open Space Association cares for the High Point community’s parks and open spaces, as well as the neighborhood’s extensive natural drainage system which includes porous streets, porous sidewalks and bioswales. The OSA is also responsible for maintenance and care of the saved trees throughout the property. It uses the most progressive clean, “green,” organic, and low-impact maintenance techniques to care for open spaces, so that High Point does not poison nature with chemicals and other toxic materials.

About Windermere Real Estate
Windermere Real Estate is ranked as the largest independent real estate company in the West, with over 300 offices and 7,000 agents serving communities in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. The Windermere family has a proud heritage of serving our neighbors via the Windermere Foundation which funds services for low-income and homeless families. Since 1989, the Windermere Foundation has contributed more than 21 million dollars towards improving lives in the communities where we live and work. For more information, visit www.windermere.com.

About KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to saving play. Children today spend less time playing outdoors than any previous generation, a fact that is having disastrous consequences on their health, achievement levels, and overall well-being. To fight this Play Deficit, social entrepreneur Darell Hammond founded non-profit KaBOOM! 15 years ago in Washington, D.C. with a vision of creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since then, KaBOOM! has mapped over 85,000 places to play, built more than 2,000 playgrounds, and successfully advocated for play policies in hundreds of cities across the country. KaBOOM! also provides communities with online tools to self-organize and take action to support play on both a local and national level. Hammond chronicles the founding of the organization and the importance of the cause of play in his The New York Times Best Seller KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play. The book details how businesses and communities can work together to save play for children across the country. All author proceeds support KaBOOM!. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago and San Mateo, Calif. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.