McDonald said he has been approached by them about the specifics of the idea. Leathers and Associates, the designing firm from Ithaca, New York, will be in Mount Olive on Design Day, September 28. Two sessions with youngsters at Carver School will be held and then high school students sitting in on those two sessions will fan out to other lower grade schools to get input as to design from the youngsters themselves. The whole thing comes together at Carver School at 7 p.m. on September 28 when the designing firm will put the entire schematic design plans before the committee for approval. Youngsters themselves will name the park and actual construction by volunteers will be done on March 28-April 2.
Construction materials are pre-cut.
There could be as many as 500 or more volunteers working to construct the park. Mrs. O'Donoghue said name plates with different levels of contributions and contributors' names will be placed on various pieces of equipment and gates and fences. She said another idea is to have children undertake projects to raise silver and then on a specified date dump it all out on the floor at the National Guard Armory, hopefully covering the entire floor. Julie Beck is general coordinator for the project. She came up with the idea in the summer of 1998 while viewing a similar park in Alaska.