Last Saturday April 19th marked the long-awaited opening day for the new playground structure recently installed in Detert Park. The ribbon cutting event followed the fifth annual “Clean Our Green,” a community wide effort intended to give Jackson a spring cleaning by providing helpful participants with litter bags and gloves to remove litter in public areas throughout the community. Over 60 community members participating in this litter clean-up event to help celebrate Earth Day. 

As the Clean Our Green event came to a close, attention shifted to the play area behind the Jackson pool. After years of reserving funds for a new playground structure, the City invested 60,000 dollars in new playground equipment in the area where previous equipment was removed due to safety regulations.  The City received assistance from the Jackson Elementary School third graders to select the equipment and the City’s Public Works crew installed the equipment.  The play equipment features several different structures intended for children ages 2 to 12.  The event is funded with California Department of Conservation funds granted to the City from the deposits on beverage containers.