SOAR receives donated playground equipment

(L-R.): Chip Dickinson, Tate Metcalf, Maureen

Bidasolo, Bonnie Malone and Matt Macauley took a donation of $15,000 worth of playground equipment for SOAR. Photo by Jim Cornelius

Several SOAR volunteers unloaded $15,000 worth of playground equipment at the Storage Station on Friday, November 29.

According to SOAR (Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation) board member Bonnie Malone, the equipment belonged to Bend Hospice. That organization ran out of storage space and decided to donate the equipment to SOAR.

The playground equipment will have a footprint of about 17x17 feet and will resemble a McDonald's playground, according to one of the volunteers.

SOAR will install the playground at its proposed new facility on the grounds of Sisters High School.

The organization is at about the half-way point in its effort to raise $950,000 to build a recreation center in Sisters. The complex will include ballfields and a gym/teen center/martial arts studio on 15 acres dedicated to the organization by the Sisters School District.

SOAR hopes to start on the project next summer.