Byck PTA
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Phase Two
EXCITING NEWS!!! We have built Phase Two of our fantastic playground!! A VERY Special THANKS to all those that helped to make the children's dreams become a reality! Check out all the FUN pictures and videos below of our extra special, very cool new playground...complete with a ROLLER SLIDE!!
Phase One
Orientation / Ice Cream Social
It was a HUGE success! The most exciting part of the day was when Councilwoman Judy Green announced that she was able to secure $30,000 in the city budget for Phase Two of our playground!! Our proposed Phase Two is expected to run an estimated $38,000 plus installation costs. This helps us tremendously in reaching our goal of getting Phase Two in place for the 2008/09 school year!
Thank you Concilwoman! 
Click here
to view the CourierJournal's coverage of the event
In the news, our PTA has gotten nation recognition for it's efforts this past year on our playground, see link below for our PTA President "Playmaker of the Month" award.
Myrdin has also made recent news in response to a Courier Journal story about the importance of recess and playgrounds, click here to see article.
Myrdin Thompson and Kassi Clifford (PTA President and VP of Ways & Means) appeared on WHAS 11 August 4th at 12:10 promoting the official Ribbon Cutting event of the new playground and Ice Cream Social.
PHASE ONE of the Playground has been built!
OurVP of Programs, David Drummond pounding hard! Our new President, Myrdin Thompson assists with the borders.
Our VP of Fund raising, Kassi Clifford setting the concrete. The cheering kids, screaming "Thank You!" as we built!
Former PTA President, Randall Elzy & NewPresident, Landscape Structures rep, Billy Worden & Kassi Myrdin Thompson work together on the clean up! assembling one of the tire swings!
David & son, Michael working on assembling the swings! Kassi putting the first bolt in the stand up see saw!
School Bookkeeper, Pam MacGaughey & Kassi Clifford breathing a sigh of relief...we worked so hard to make this possible!
Cayleigh & Gabriel Clifford (left) and Finn Thompson (right) get the first breaking in of the equipment.
They deserved it, they spent may days being drug around the school helping their mommies raise money for this!
Okay, so the PTA had to have some FUN too!!
Yup! It's SAFE!!!
) UNLEASHED! 
Test Drive a SUCCESS!! This day made all the stress, begging and long hours worthwhile! A SPECIAL Thanks to all those that came together and supported the PTA in order to make the children's dream a reality!***
In case you haven't heard yet, Byck's PTA has been working endlessly to get the kids a playground. Well into the year, we realized it just was not possible to do all at once. That's when we decided to piece it out. We knew how hard the kids and parents had been working to raise funds, collect boxtops, etc. and we felt it was necessary to get SOME pieces of equipment out there this year to show you where all your hard work is going! In the next years, we will continue to work on raising funds for a complete play system, but for now, Phase One has been built (although it hasn't been an easy road!)!
What it consists of:
4 Belt Swings
2 Tire Swings
4 Panel Cascade Climber
Stand Up See-Saw
This would not be possible without the parental and staff financial contributions to our Candle sales, Family Portraits, Engraved Bricks and Box Top & Labels for Education collecting. Several parents and local businesses (The Heuser Clinic has been key in helping us to establish relationships with wonderful local foundations, thank you Peggy) Isaacs & Isaacs, Kate Rudd w/Sonic and all the others that donated hundreds of dollars to this cause...for this, we sincerely thank you.
We also have to thank our generous grant sponsors:
Cralle Foundation $ 5850 GrantKaboom! and Home Depot $4500 Grant
Without wonderful foundations like yours, dreams like this would never be possible.
Thank you for making our children's dreams come true by providing them a safe, fun place to stay active and healthy!