Highlighting Playground Safety for FMs Children

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Highlighting Playground Safety for FMs Children

• National Playground Safety Week
• April 26-30, 2004

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• They had no money.
• They had no vision (for a while anyway).
• But they changed the face of Fargo-Moorheads
  playground safety forever.
• This is their story.

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The SafetyDream Team

• Dan Conrad
• Christel Fritz
• Shannon Kubik
• Krista Mund
• Susanne Williams
• Shawn Vasichek

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Our Planning Process

• The Gathering Stage
• Met at Vogel once, twice, (how many times was it
  again?)
• Brainstormed Ideas
• From an events newsletter to playground safety
  checks
• Time for research

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More Planning

• The Chaos Stage
• Now what are we doing?
• Safety Checks
• Compliance
• Training for playground supervisors
• Contact National Organization for Playground
  Safety in Iowa
• Meet with Larry Anderson, turned down by Fargo
  Parks and Recreation, refocus

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More Planning

• More Chaos
• Moorhead and Fargo already offer training
• They suggested targeting the schools
• Solution
• National Playground Safety Week
• Focus on 4-5 grade in Fargo Moorhead public
  schools
• Poster Contest! State and City Proclamations!
  Celebrity Judges! Host a News Conference! Secure
  a Future Sponsor! Get in-kind Donations!

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Planning Continued

• We Have Reached Unity
• Create a schedule/timeline
• Identify who is in charge of each task

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Our Project Takes Off

• The Performance Stage
• Contact ND and MN governors for state
  proclamations
• Contact Fargo and Moorhead mayors for city
  proclamations
• Start to spread the word Home and Garden Show
• Secure school participation in poster contest
• Send out invitations to principals
• Identify donors and poster judges
• Identify news conference venue
• Invite media, schools, Parks and Rec
  representatives, judges, and our leadership class
  (mail and email)

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Performing

• Servant Leadership
• Home Builders Association Home Garden Show,
  Feb. 26-28, 2004
• Each team member volunteered 4 hours to take care
  of kids in the childcare playground
• We circulated fliers about playground safety and
  National Playground Safety Week

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We are SO Performing

• Poster Contest
• Six FM Schools participated
• 112 entries
• We selected the top 10 entries
• Created a website to facilitate judging the top
  10 (Go Christel!)

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• Final Round Judges
• Mark Voxland, Moorhead Mayor
• Morrie Lanning, MN State Representative
• Bette Grande, ND State Representative
• Tony Grindberg, ND State Senator
• Konrad Olson, FM Chamber of Commerce
• Larry Nybladh, Superintendent of Moorhead Schools
• David Flowers, Superintendent of Fargo Schools

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• Poster contest donors
• The Holiday Inn pool party
• FM Red Hawks family pack
• Dairy Queen dilly bar pack
• Dominos 50 pizzas
• Yunker Farm 60 golf passes
• Cashwise video 15 movie rentals
• Color Poster printing by Marco
• IdeaOne copies and website hosting/development
• Home Builders copies and mailing costs
• Cass Electric copes, folding, mailing costs,
  venue and refreshments for news conference

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The Standing Ovation

• The Press Conference
• Monday, April 26,
• 1 p.m., Cass Electric
• Launch Playground Safety Week, announce poster
  contest winners, mayoral support, donors future
  plan

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• All FM television stations carried the story!
• The Forum announced safety week, the Chamber
  Leadership Program, and our names!

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Highlights from the Press Conference
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Encore!

• Distributed the prizes to the kids/schools
• Pitched National Playground Safety Week poster
  contest to the Fargo Optimists
• They accepted the project!
• National Playground Safety Week now an annual
  event in FM.

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Adjourning Stage

• Met at the HoDo to develop our presentation.
• Appropriate celebratory drinks ensued.
• We promised to keep meeting like this.

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• The End!
• wild applause is appropriate now