Hermosa Beach kids help design park
The sun shines down on kindergartner Kellen Haynes’ design for South Park, featuring an elevated fort on the left, with a bridge to a water slide on the right, a trampoline, monkey bars and swings. Hermosa Beach school kids envisioned tree houses, “spy scopes” and lots of stuff to climb and swing on, in imaginative designs they submitted forSouthPark, which will be renovated this summer with the help of a $150,000 grant from Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe. The kids, in kindergarten through fifth grades, were taking part in a “Design Your Dream Playground” contest that aims to involve them in the renovation of the four-and-a-half acre park along Valley Drive in the south part of town. The renovation includes the removal of a closed and unused skate rink, along with its bleachers, and adding new children’s play equipment and a community garden. “There’s no better way to find out what the children want in their playground than to ask them directly,” said Beth Rohrer, a member of a committee helping to guide the renovation. “The students did an amazing job and were very creative and descriptive, and it helps the committee understand what is important from a child’s…
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