Legacy Play Village undergoes maintenance
LUBBOCK COUNTY, TX (KCBD) - It was spring cleaning day, today, at legacy play village on Marsha Sharp and Milwaukee.
It run by non-profit organization Friends of Legacy Play Village so citizens volunteer their time to maintain the grounds there.
Play Village was built by volunteers 13 years ago and is the largest playground in Lubbock.
Its elaborate structure and unique design attract all types of visitors but not always good ones.
The popular play area has frequently been the target of random vandalism such as wood being torn down or kicked it, small fires being set and graffiti.
The volunteers are left with the burden of repair.
"It's something that's supposed to be good for the community and there's people that want to tear it down," said the secretary of the organization, Heather Newberry. "It's hard to explain their motives but it happens I'm sure it happens other places too but we just do the best we can to keep it clean and debris free and vandalism free.
"Roberto Torres is a local civil engineer who says he brings his small grandchildren to the Play Village.
"They just run around and wear themselves out, they wear me out too but I enjoy it," Torres said. "I love bringing them out here because this is an area that they can camp out and just enjoy and run around and don't have to worry about them running outside of the fencing area so that's great."
He says he doesn't understand why people would go out of their way to damage the grounds.
"It's amazing what kind of vandalism does go on out here I wish there was a way that they could monitor this a little bit better but again this is I think all volunteer type stuff so donated lumber so I wish they would stop because this is one of those facilities that you would like for it to continue to grow and just get better and better and add more things to it and with the vandalism that's going on it's just hard to do that without knowing that it's going to get destroyed."
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