Make a Move with Jagger Foundation hosts 2nd annual Carnival Fundraiser

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The roughly $500,000 two phase project which began in 2016 is slated to be complete by fall of 2019, with only two more items to be added to the current playground next year.

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Organizer and Foundation spokesperson Sharlee Anderson, says the event is a give-back to the kids who spear-headed the initiative two years ago.

“It just really gives me a sense of community and what community really means,” says Anderson. “With the kids having the idea of this playground needing to be built for Jagger, whose in a wheelchair, my son. Just this whole community of Red Deer coming together and everybody doing their own little fundraisers and their big fundraisers and just playing a part in making this dream come true.”

As a result, the barrier-free playground that enhances accessibility for people of all abilities and ages, is somewhere Anderson says her family spends a lot of time at.

“It’s really the only playground he can attend,” states Anderson. “Everybody who comes here knows who he is and it’s just given us a little bit of his childhood back. He’s 10 and there hasn’t been a whole lot of inclusive activities that he has gotten to do so far.”

However, Anderson stresses the playground is for everybody.

“I really hope it inspires other schools, other communities and other people to really come take a look at what this playground is,” adds Anderson. “So when they’re thinking of in the future building a playground that they really think about the kids who are a little bit limited to what they can do and make something for everyone.”

She says the community’s generosity never ceases to amaze her.

“You ask for things from your community and they just say ‘Yes’,” Anderson gushes. “Nobody has said ‘No’ to us, everything that you see here today has been donated. I’m really super proud of this community, like I would not want to live anywhere else, it’s just really, truly the best.”

A fundraising total from Saturday’s carnival has yet to be announced.