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A safer, greener place to play

By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 at 8:33 pm in athletics/physical education,community, health, initiatives, middle schools, students
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The playground at Roosevelt Middle School in East Oakland didn’t always have a smooth surface, planter boxes, a shiny new playing field or artwork. You can probably imagine what it looked like.

It was transformed by the Oakland Schoolyards Initiative, a partnership between the East Bay Asian Youth Center, The Unity Council and the Oakland school