“It never rains in August,” a parent at Frank Brouillet Elementary in Puyallup, Washington promised me. On Tuesday afternoon underneath ominous rain clouds and atop soggy ground I stood with hundreds of children, parents, teachers, and volunteers to cut a very long and sparkly ribbon and open the school’s new playground. The children, who would be returning to school in two days, raced onto the newly mulched grounds to jump, climb and swing on the primary colored equipment. The first rain drops fell, tentatively at first, and then with more momentum. The kids didn’t seem to mind. Read & Discuss
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