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Orlando Magic, KaBOOM! Playground opens in Kissimmee

On Wednesday, March 10, the Magic along with KaBOOM!, City of Kissimmee and Community Vision built a playground in a day at Oak Street Community Center in Osceola County.

The ribbon is cut on the newly built playground at Oak Street Community Center in Osceola County. Pictured left to right: Magic COO Alex Martins, Magic Community Ambassador Bo Outlaw, Parks and Recreation Board Member Bobbie Gant, Kissimmee Mayor Jim Swan, Magic Center Dwight Howard, Magic Forward Brandon Bass, STUFF the Magic mascot (Photo credit: Gary Bassing/OM)

More than 300 volunteers from the Orlando Magic, the City of Kissimmee and Community Vision, organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the Kissimmee community joined forces to build a new, safe playground at the Oak Street Community Center. It will provide hundreds of children in the Kissimmee counnumity with a safe place to play.

The new playground’s design is based on drawings created by children who participated in a Design Day event in January.

This is the Magic’s fourth playground built by KaBOOM! and the Magic, in Central Florida and one of more than 150 KaBOOM! will lead across the country in 2010 in an effort to provide a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America..

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