After Build Day 2021, all Worcester elementary schools now have playgrounds
Until next week.
Working for Worcester, a nonprofit organization driven by College of the Holy Cross students, returned from a COVID-19 hiatus Saturday in style, erecting playgrounds at the last two elementary schools on its long-running list, McGrath and Columbus Park.
The organization, started by two Holy Cross students nearly a decade ago, has been building or revitalizing playgrounds for years to ensure no students go to a school without one.
The endgame was reached Saturday, when more than 200 volunteers, all wearing masks on an unseasonably warm day, finished playgrounds at the schools and beautified nine other sites citywide.