(L-R) Elizabeth Pomeroy, PUSD Board President, Carter Oosterhouse, Carter’s Kids Founder, Erika Cooper, Principal of Hamilton Elementary, PUSD Superintendent Brian McDonald, Alejandra Brady, Head of Communications & Community Relations for Chuck E. Cheese with Chuck E. mouse in front (Photo – Amanda Rowan)
PASADENA – ColoradoBoulevard.net:
Carter’s Kids, a nonprofit founded by Trading Space’s TV star Carter Oosterhouse, and Chuck E. Cheese partnered to build a colorful, long-lasting new playground for the more than 500 children who attend Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena.
By News Desk
The new playground was unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 12.
This is the 86th playground built by Carter’s Kids, founded in 2006, since Oosterhouse started the nonprofit in 2006. The community and school playgrounds and parks that Carter’s Kids builds and develops are located in underserved areas to encourage physical fitness and ensure that every child has access to a fun, safe place to play.
Chuck E. Cheese is expanding play beyond its four walls to provide a place Where Every Kid Can Be A Kid. The playgrounds are enjoyed by thousands of children every day across the country.
The school in Pasadena is the first recipient of Chuck E. Cheese’s Playground Project initiative.
Their second playground will be built in Dallas next week.
Hamilton Elementary new playground (Photo – Amanda Rowan)
As a school community, we always focus on what is best for the students and the community we serve.
Your “decades ago” comment seems fleeting, slapdash, and yet oddly specific to our community- including thoughts of yesteryear commuter mind drift.
I invite you to speak with me about Hamilton in 2022, the current year, to help correct your future narrative.
-Cooper
Excuse me, but describing the foundation as providing services to schools in underserved areas simply doesn’t apply here. A couple of decades ago I commuted past that school every day to my job as a speech pathologist at another PUSD campus; the area it’s in has very high property values. There are schools in the city that are truly underserved but this isn’t one of them.