Jackson Park Playground Project
Jackson Park Project Enters Home Stretch
Organizers hope to break ground on the park as early as September. Saturday offers two ways to give the project a boost.
Kevin Donaher remembers the sounds of kids playing on Saturday mornings at Jackson Park. Bouncing balls, whoops and peels of laughter. For six years those sounds of neighborhood life have been harder to hear. He hopes to hear them again, and to see neighbors relaxing on the park's benches and grass. Donaher and other members of the Jackson Park Playground Project have been working for four years to make the park a reality. Saturday will continue that effort with their monthly scrap metal collection day at the Department of Public Works from 8:30 a.m, until noon. The park supporters will also be selling Jackson Park T-shirts, hats, carry-coolers and blankets from a table at the Swampscott Harbor Festival at Fisherman's Beach. Through the …
