More than 700 Bayview Avenue students, faculty and staff, parents, community leaders and residents, and Freeport School District administrators attended the dedication of the newly built playground at the Bayview Avenue Elementary School May 17.
Under a cloudless sky on a cool and sunny morning made for playground activity, Principal Odette Wills introduced a colorful ceremony with students announcing, singing and cheering the new facility, built to replace the earlier, wooden one destroyed by fire.
Freeport Mayor William Glacken and Hempstead Councilwoman Angie Cullin joined others in marking this as “a momentous event” in the elementary school’s history, as Principal Wills described it.
Architect Richard Scalia of Baldassano Architectural, Ronkonkoma, which designed the facility, said that the playground combined three separate playgrounds in one and is now one of the largest and most advanced of its kind in Long Island public schools.
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