Project goes KaBoom at Modesto park

Getting kids active was part of the goal Saturday as about 200 volunteers helped a KaBoom playground-building project at Fairview Park in Modesto.

Community group Manos Unidas – United Hands – has worked and raised money to revitalize the park on Tuscon Avenue. KaBoom is a national nonprofit that brings active play to the lives of children by building playgrounds. The nonprofit, based in Washington, D.C., has opened nearly 16,300 playgrounds mostly in low-income communities since 1996.

The Stanislaus County Police Activities League applied for the playground project on behalf of the neighborhood. Kaiser Permanente, a KaBoom sponsor in the region, agreed to invest in the Modesto playground.

The park’s neighborhood, south of the Tuolumne River and west of Crows Landing Road, is where the Stanislaus County district attorney enforced a court-approved gang injunction starting in 2009.

This story was originally published November 5, 2016 at 5:02 PM with the headline "Project goes KaBoom at Modesto park."