Conde, SD

Monday, May 19th will be the clean-up day for the city. We have the flyers out to start at 2:00 with a supper to be served at 6:00 for all the workers. We have new leadership for the event and good leadership it is. We will have a dumpster sitting across from the park and that will remain from the 14th through the 23rd. Because of sound leadership lots of questions have come up about various kinds of trash….what about that old paint and batteries? It sounds like people are ready to clean up!

The school children did a fine job two weeks ago along main street and around the school, this should complete the job for most of the town and be completed by Memorial Day. There are other projects such as some old cars that will be dealt with when a crusher is available and we hope that is completed by the end of June and before the All School Reunion. Am sure the Senior Citizens will offer a good meal to make us all glad we came.

The work on the will not be started with the clean up as The Young Men’s Club will help with that as a new slide needs to be put in, the old one taken down and protective ground cover put in place. We called in the City Insurance Representative for a most informative safety regulations to be followed. I didn’t know it but slides are made for the young to 5 years old and then 5 and up. Our new slide is for the 5 to 12 years old and we need to make sure that information is on the slide. We need to make sure that the park is segmented to the age groups so that there is less possibility for little ones getting trampled by bigger ones. Also, always place swings of like ages together and do not mix them. All these things sound so reasonable and who would know those regulations until you asked especially when your town is so small and you don’t have a Park and Rec. Department. We are so pleased that we will know the standards before we start.

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