{"id":7828,"date":"2016-01-15T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T00:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2018-07-19T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T03:09:40","slug":"making-progress-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/making-progress-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Progress in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are well underway with the new playground at\u00a0Springbank Park. A few months ago, I committed some funding for a brand new accessible playground in my hometown of London, Ontario. The idea was suggested by London local, Shelah Brook, and now she and I are both\u00a0part of the team working on the development of the new play area.<\/p>\n<p>We just had our second meeting, with me on Skype, and things are moving quickly. In just a few weeks we will have some designs to look at and I can hardly wait for that. The plan is for a grand opening in the spring. I had committed $130,000 in Canadian funds but the exchange rate is so favorable, I added a little more and now our budget is $150,000 CAD.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never skyped before and I would rather be there in person but I&#8217;m glad to be able to participate so there I am on the laptop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Photo3_1200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7829 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Photo3_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo3_1200\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Photo3_1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Photo3_1200-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Photo3_1200-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>There are quite a few people on the team and they are the nicest bunch. (but that&#8217;s what everyone says about Canadians!) From left to right we have:\u00a0Shelah Brook (this was her idea), Julie Michaud, Dianna Clarke, (me), Judy Spencer, Michael Dawthorne, and Terri-Sue Wyatt. Andrew Macpherson, the manager of environmental and parks planning, was there too but somebody had to take the picture!<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my progress report. More updates to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are well underway with the new playground at Springbank Park. A few months ago, I committed some funding for a brand new accessible playground in my hometown of London, Ontario. The idea was suggested by London local, Shelah Brook, and now she and I are both part of the team working on the development of the new play area. We just had our second meeting, with me on Skype, and things are moving quickly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philanthropy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7993,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}