Swampscott Stories
Lower Jackson Playground Takes Shape Saturday
Community build day brought out lots of families, friends and neighbors.
The park for all seasons took a giant step forward Saturday when families, friends and neighbors installed the main piece of play equipment at Lower Jackson Park. Twenty-five to 30 volunteers started arriving to Community Build Day at 7 am. They placed aluminum, metal and molded plastic pieces into position and assembled them with washers, nuts and bolts. Shortly before 1 pm the grounds were a symphony of clicking ratchets, turning wrenches and talking workers. "Remember, 'Righty tightie, lefty loosey,'" one of them said, reinforcing a mainstay of wrench work — turn to the right to tighten bolts and screws and to the left to loosen them. Nearby, a backhoe's bucket scraped gravel and nudged boulders from the bony earth — 'Kachunk-kachunk…
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