An inclusive playground that any child can use was unveiled as the Iowa State Fair opened Thursday.
State Fair Blue Ribbon Foundation executive director Jim Cownie says they worked with Variety the Children’s Charity of Iowa to build it. “We have a wonderful partnership with variety of Iowa. We raised the money together to create this new playground on these historic fairgrounds. We spent over $700,000 to bring this new playground to you today,” he says.
Cownie says eight-year-old Kinsley Hagerman is the reason for the playground, after she called them out. “They wrote us an e-mail last year of how our playground was not accessible to all. We want everything to be accessible to all here at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, and we would not be here today, we would not have this wonderful project were it not for you Kinsley,” Cownie says…