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The new inclusive playground at Lions Park in Kingsville was packed with kids after the official ribbon-cutting. Pictured here are some Kingsville children enjoying the play structure just prior to the ribbon-cutting, from left, Nicolas Mastronardi, Trevor White, Emilio Mastronardi and Giulianna Mastronardi. SUN photo by Paul Forman
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By Paul Forman With the vast majority of Canadians believing that accessibility is a human right, the Town of Kingsville took a major step forward in addressing that right with the opening of the town’s first inclusive play-
ground for local children. A ribbon-cutting for the new playground took place at Lions Park on Mill Street on June 6, followed by the Kingsville Lions Club holding a free celebration barbecue for families checking out the new play structure for all
Kingsville’s CAO John Norton indicated that the inclusive project came in at an overall cost of $300,000, of which the Kingsville Lions Club covered $123,000 of that total by mounting a very successful Play It Forward fundraising
campaign, and through a Canada Healthy Communities Initiative grant that they obtained through the Windsor-Essex Community Foundation. SEE PLAYGROUND CONT’D ON PAGE 2
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