EASTON, Pa. – Easton’s first special needs playground is officially open.<\/p>\n
Children have a lot of room to play outside at the Milton Street Park, in an all-inclusive environment.<\/p>\n
“We have a bench that’ll be installed,” said Easton Vice Mayor Councilman Frank Pintabone. “We have a couple more upgrades we have to make to it.”<\/p>\n
The finishing touches were carefully placed one by one early Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“We moved it a little faster,” Pintabone said.<\/p>\n
One month ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n
“Because a couple families reached out and said ‘we see the equipment. We want to use it,'” said Pintabone.<\/p>\n
Eager and excited, children of all ages gathered at the park’s newest addition.<\/p>\n
“I had the idea 10 years ago maybe from a young man named Brandon, who had special needs and didn’t really have a place to go,” said Pintabone.<\/p>\n
That’s when Pintabone said it was time for a special-needs playground in the city.<\/p>\n
“I thought about it all the way back then, and held on to it,” said Pintabone.<\/p>\n
Designed for inclusivity, with deep greens and browns shining bright in the sunlight.\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n
The playground has all kinds of features, including a wheelchair swing, sensory boards and a wheelchair-accessible teeter-totter.<\/p>\n
The playground is funded through budget adjustments, including a $10,000 donation from the Easton Lions to build a fence. That will be installed in a few weeks.<\/p>\n
“We just want to celebrate the inclusivity and the opportunity for these individuals to have something for them,” Pintabone said.<\/p>\n
It’s a place where everyone can swing into happiness and teeter on the edge of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Easton’s first special needs playground is officially open. Children have a lot of room to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-251472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}