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Fairfield, Iowa, Being a Father, Being a Mother
Posted by Dawn on Monday, November 5th, 2007

If you’ve ever been a stay-at-home mom or dad in the winter, you’ll understand why I am working on this. It’s very easy to feel overwhelmed, depressed or just plain claustrophobic when you are stuck inside day after day with nowhere to go with your little one.

About a month ago, I posted about a group of moms organizing an indoor play center for Fairfield. Here is an update.

The Park and Recreation Department has agreed to house the play center in the Roosevelt Center! Yahoo! Thank-you Parks and Recs!

Now, all we have to do is raise the money. ;-) Around $15,000. We are looking at a number of different ways to raise funds. One nice thing is all donations can be tax-deductible due to Parks and Rec’s Foundation.

We will have a booth at the indoor market to sell baked goods and crafts like cards. There will also be a craft table for the kids. We will approach the local clubs, organizations and businesses and there will be donation jars placed around town.

Please keep an eye out for us and help when you can! If you would like to volunteer to help with the Indoor Market please email me at dawn.merydith(@)gmail.com

Christi writes:

Dawn
This is such a great idea. What type of play area are you looking at? I’d ask the partners for play organization to help. I don’t know who is in charge. Holly might know. They organized the new playgroung at Chautauqua park and also the castle park at OB Nelson. Do you know where inside the Park and Rec the playground would be?

November 5, 2007 @ 1:16 pm
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Dawn writes:

Beth Alonso has been talking to Barry. It’s going to be on the top floor by the workout room. Right now there is a bunch of OLD workout equipment in there.

November 5, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
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Christine writes:

For full updates on the Indoor Playground, and for any moms/parents interested in an online community connection, please join the Fairfield Moms Group (a Yahoo group).

The home page is at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldVedicCityIowaMomsGroup/

The group serves as a general resource for those with small children. The latest buzz is all about the indoor playground!

November 5, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
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Wendy writes:

Woo Hoo!! Go Dawn! Maybe we can get something going here like that, too….

November 5, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
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Dawn writes:

Christine - thanks for posting the moms group!!

Wendy- Have you been to the BI Children’s Museum this season? I wish we had that here! There is a great one but it is an hour and half away.

November 5, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
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Beth Alonso writes:

Dear Dawn and Christine,
Wow, I didn’t know you guys were spreading the word on other websites, you guys are great!! Thank you!

December 4, 2007 @ 7:31 pm
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Living in Small Sizes » The Play Room writes:

[…] noteworthy The Play RoomIt was announced today that The Play Room will be a recipient for the Rotary Auction in April!  The Play Room will be an indoor play center at the Roosevelt Center.Bush CoinsHilarious video over at Blip TV.Caucus Fallout Chris Dodd and Joe Biden decide to leave the presidential race. Keep up the good fight in the Senate and thanks for keeping it Real!!Fairfield in WSJRead the article under “Obama and Dodd” comments. Thanks Holly! I love it! […]

January 28, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
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Holly writes:

AWESOME news! The Rotary is such a great support to our community. Their $3K gift to 1st Fridays Art Walk in 2006 enabled the creation of their website….finally. Congratulations Play Room folks! I’ll buy some auction tickets!

January 30, 2008 @ 5:21 pm
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