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Olive Stallings Playground Reopens

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:29:08 GMT

The official reopening of Olive Stallings Playground commenced February 16, 2008. Sponsored by NIKE and Foot Locker, the N.O.R.D. playground and its participants were treated to one heckuva party.

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Olive Stallings Gets Joy In Her Soul

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:38:00 GMT

Once again many volunteers throughout the New Orleans area came out to help make Olive Stallings Playground renewed and improved. Olive Stallings Playground was named for the founder of the New Orleans Recreation Department. It's a sure bet that Olive Stallings would be prould of all of the New Orleanians and people from around the U.S.A. who have helped keep Olive Stallings Playground a safe haven for all the children of New Orleans.

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Olive Stallings Playground Renewal

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:19:35 GMT

Many wonderful people from far and near came out to help renew Olive Stallings Playground. Many of the people who worked on this project were from the surrounding neighborhood but some were from as far as Minnesota, New Jersey, and California! 200 people came out in the rain and cold weather to make this happen.

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Tags : Faubourg, KABOOM, New, Orleans, Playground, Stallings, fsjna

Whatchya Gonna Do About That?

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:19:27 GMT

Stallings Playground as it looks today.Stallings Playground1600 Gentilly Blvd.New Orleans, LA (right across from the Fair Grounds)

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Who was Olive Stallings?

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:47:33 GMT

Olive A. Stallings is known as the mother of playgrounds in New Orleans.In 1906, she established the first play center in New Orleans, the PoydrasPlayground, at her own expense and continued to maintain it for two years. When the Playgrounds Commission was established in 1911, she served as Its first president, a post she held continuously until her death in 1940. At herdeath, she left one-fourth of her estate-- $ 150,000 to the playgrounds system, soon to become the New Orleans Recreation Department.Olive Stallings Playground at 1600 Gentilly Blvd in New Orleans was built in 1938.Its time to do it again.Please join us on January 19, 2008 when Stallings Playground will be reborn.

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