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Historical September–October 2012 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
What do you get when you combine mud in squirt bottles, excited neighborhood children, and a string of record-breaking hot days? Summer in the City! Several families in Skinker-DeBaliviere took the opportunity to meet each other and participate in arts activities as part of the newly-formed Summer in the City group this July. Over four successive Fridays, Summer in the City participants – both kids under eight and their parents – enjoyed the opportunity to socialize and play. Activities included decorating T shirts using mud; harvesting plants at McPherson Community Garden and making sun tea; playing at Shaw Park playground in Clayton; and experimenting with paint and texture at Andy Cross’s art studio.
The number of families at the events varied from three to up to a dozen, and there seemed to be consensus among parents to continue with such get-togethers, in some form, through the fall months. Families in Skinker-DeBaliviere and Parkview choose to send their kids to a wide variety of local schools, and there is no common neighborhood school that binds the neighborhood together. Activities such as these (and more impromptu meet-ups at the Four Corners playground) are one of the best opportunities for neighborhood children and their parents to get to know each other.
If you would like to be involved in upcoming events, please email Mary Pat O’Gorman at holtgreivemp@hotmail.com.
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Summer in the City art activity. Descriptive caption supplied.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September–October 2012.
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