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Strouss Park playground rebuild finally moving forward after repeated delays · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Strauss Park playground rebuild finally moving forward after repeated delays.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Matthias Werner. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. There's light
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel for the completion of
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  Speaker 1: the Strauss Park playground in Mendota. Project director Annie Short
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  Speaker 1: provided an update Monday, following the fourth snafu in rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: the playground late last month. Cunningham came out and did
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  Speaker 1: an assessment and after negotiations, they're going to send out
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  Speaker 1: a whole team to build the playground for us, so
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  Speaker 1: we do not have to Short said, I think Cunningham
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  Speaker 1: recognized an opportunity to make up for what has happened.
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  Speaker 1: Cunningham Recreation, the organization that oversees playgrounds with game time equipment,
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly sent the wrong materials to the Strauss Park project,
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  Speaker 1: delaying the completion date. We explain that with Sweetcorn Fest
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  Speaker 1: this week, it's going to be a little crazy and
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  Speaker 1: may be hard to get things around. So they're starting
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  Speaker 1: next week and said it should take about two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Short said, it's a little late, but at least it
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  Speaker 1: will get built, so we're excited about that. Short said
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  Speaker 1: that Cunningham estimates it as a seventy five thousand dollars investment.
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  Speaker 1: As part of the negotiated agreement for the labor to
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  Speaker 1: be taken care of by the company rather than the city,