Come celebrate Earth Day with Buckingham Pond Conservancy as we host a formal ribbon cutting for the new playground followed by our annual spring pond cleanup. Sunday April 22, 2018 1:00 - 3:00 PM Children are encouraged to attend and to help hold the ribbon! This is...
Cold weather is expected, and we are concerned about little hands and feet, so are postponing the playground ribbon cutting. After being derailed by weather a few weeks ago, we are looking forward to celebrating with a formal ribbon cutting this Spring and will post...
The playground is playable! Few last cosmetic things still need cleaning up, but the kids were having a great time this weekend. Thanks to Daniel Hogan for this Facebook photo post of the playground. We are planning an official ribbon cutting ceremony this Friday...
Photos from today. Our playground is coming along. The installers are almost done and we are moving quickly towards borders, surfacing and play!
Work continued through the weekend. The outlines are taking shape. These pictures are from Monday 10/23
The old playground has been removed. New equipment will be delivered tomorrow 10/19. It will take several weeks before it is built, installed and ready to go. Many thanks to the City of Albany, especially the Department of General Services and the Recreation...
The playground is coming! DGS tells us that they will begin taking down the existing playground this Thursday 10/12 in preparation for the new and improved one. It will be at least a few weeks before the new one is up and ready to play. We'll keep you posted!
We are making excellent progress on the playground project. The equipment has been ordered, the City is on board to do the heavy work, and now we need to figure out the details of the volunteer part of the construction. We could use some help to do that. Do you know...
BPC is making great progress on raising funds and finalizing a design for a new and improved playground at Buckingham Pond. Special thanks to the Lobo Living Trust, the Massry Family and the Bender Family Foundation for their financial support. Designing a playground...
We are raising funds for the conservancy with a brick campaign. Bricks will be installed along the path near the new playground at the park. Funds raised have already helped defray the costs of the playground and additioanl funds raisesd will be used to advance the...
The Buckingham Pond Conservancy will be holding a playground fundraising event at The Point Restaurant and Lounge, 1100 Madison Avenue in Albany. The Point will donate 20% of dinner proceeds to the BPC's playground fundraising efforts. Dinner guests must present a...
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