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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 27, 1975

Page

2

Greatest Playground Show on Earth Parade Builds Local Activities

Cedar Rapids hosts a seven week series of special playground events featuring tame papier mache lions and tigers and a packed schedule. Daily contests, relays, scavenger hunts, costume and pet shows, balloon stomps, bubble gum races and a grand parade Thursday August 7 at 1 45 p m downtown with multiple parks and schools across the area participating.

Cedar Rapids Taylor School Tim Carson Fifth Avenue Chris Knight Seventh Avenue Cherry Hill Jones Coolidge Twin Pines Kenwood Cleveland Park Wright Daniels Arthur Adams Grant Wood Lincolnway Harrison Ellis Nixon Polk Monroe Hayes Hoover Fillmore Cleveland School Johnson and Tyler Alandale Bever Pierce Sach Erskine van Buren Shawnee Apache Johnson Noelridge Madison Harrison and Ellis Jacolyp

Tot Lot Week Brings Fire Truck and Willing Water Visits

The city conducts a week of tot lot programs with a fire department truck and mascot Willing Water teaching fire safety and water origins. A detailed schedule lists which tot lots receive visits each morning and afternoon, weather permitting, plus a concurrent themed program featuring nature activities and crafts.

Weekday Activities At Day Camp With Hikes and Theater

The schedule shows a Monday hike and pin wheel craft, Tuesday nature mobiles, Wednesday field trip to Bever Park for lunch and a Cinderella theater party, Thursday a second hike and paper bag owl crafts, and a Friday swimming party at Jones Park.

Cherry Hill Truman Daniels and Adams Lincolnway Lincoln Apache Bever and Harrison Coolidge Eisenhower and Wright Jocelyn Monroe Grant Nixon Noelridge Bowman Woods Anderson and Kenwood Erskine Jones and Shawnee Northview Roosevelt Pierce Redmond Jefferson Ambroz Mt. Vernon Road Tom Cook Bever Park Jones Park

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