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December 33 2010
Serving Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota since 1893
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EDITORIAL EdorIal Director Rod Sutton
rsuttonsgcmailcom
Edor Ivy Chang ichan~lfgtsgcmailcom 9529333386
D Kelsey Hiebert
MANAGEMENT VPGroup Pbllr Rick Schwer
rschwersgcmailcom
vp Conatractlon Group Rick Blesi rblesisgcmailcom
Director of Circulation Doug Reme driemersgcmailcom
Director of Creative Service amp Promotion
Sandi Stevenson sslevensonsgomBII com
ADVERTISING Intgrated Media CoMuant
Richard Thompson rthompsonsgcmailcom 952-401-1158
Advertlnll Coordinator Michelle Pak mpaksgcmailcom
RetWIIt Sal bullbullbull Marktlq A_ Adrienne Miller amillersgcmailcom
CORPORATE Chairman Emerttu (1922-2003)
HS Gillette
Chalrpereon KA Gillette
Pdent CEO ES Gillette
Sr Vice PraIdant Ann Fallon ONelll
Vice Prdent of Cuatorn Media Creatlv Servlcea _ Content M _
Diane Vojcanin
Vice Pr_nt of Evnt Harry Urban
Chief Financial OfIIcar David Shreiner
For reprint plea contect Adrienne Miller amillersgcmailcom
CONSTRUcnON BUUETIN CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN (USPS 13Q)60) is published weekly by SGC Horizon LLC 3030 W Salt Creek Lane Suite 201 Arlington Heights IL 60005 Periodical postage paid at Arlington Heights IL 60005 and other mailing offices Subscription Rates per year USA $22000 Canada $27900 (payable in USA funds) all other international $27900 (payable in USA funds) Single copies USA $1500 all international (payable in USA funds) $3000 Buyers Guide USA $3000 all international (payable in USA funds) $7000 Reproduction of contents is strictly forbidden ~ Copyright 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN is not responsible for the accuracy of any data claim or opinion appearing in this magazine and opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the magazine or its publishers The appearance of any advertisement or nevi product information does not constitute the endorsement of any product by CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN
POSTMASTER __r c to Circulation Department CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 3030 W_ Salt Creek Lane Suite 201 Arlington Heights IL 60005-5025
volume 295 number 29 and South Dakota since 1893
features departments 4 Construction Emphasizes 7 Project News
Outdoor Play Contractors worked in harshy 20 Advertisements for Bids money to build a playground project 24 Construction Mart
2 Industry News
2amp Calendar
ro SUBSCRIBE TO CONSTRUCTION BUL LETIN PLEASE GO TO WWWCDSREPORTNOWCOMRENEWNOWCBL
December 13 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 3
c AI
o o LAY By Richard Parrish
orne Twin Cities contractors came together in the fall to donate their construction
services equipment and materials to install seven unusual outdoor playshyground musical instruments at the Jackson Square Park playground in Northeast Minneapolis The project commemorated the 25th anniversashyry of the Minneapolis City of Lakes
Rotary Club which raised money to buy the instruments and collaboshyrated with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on the site location and development
Knutson Construction in suburban Golden Valley coordinated the work to build a patio area in the park and assemble and instaH the instruments which took about three days The
Con tractors
worked in
harmony to build
a playground
project
company also collaborated with the Rotary club and the Park Board on site planning helped recruit other contracshytors and provided several workers
Donating services Bollig amp Sons Hopkins provided
a crew and a Bobcat skid steer loader to excavate the site at the north end of the playground and to landscape a
4 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010
~ ~ A construction worker measured the depth of the hole designated for one of the musical instruments
small hill that sloped off to the west of the site The skid steer was also used to drill a number of footings to firmly anchor the large instruments for safeshyty and to prevent theft Workers from Knutson and Bollig set wood stakes by hand around the patio area where the instruments would be installed attached wood forms to the stakes to hold the concrete then spread a base of sand inside the forms
Apple Valley Red-E-Mix Apple Valley Minn deli vered concrete to the curb site and workers from Mortenson Construction Minneapolis used a motorized wheelbarrow to haul the concrete to the site and finished it with hand tools Before the concrete set the crew installed three 1-footshysquare stainless steel nameplates into the concrete one with the Rotary clubs logo another with the Rotary International wheel logo and the third with an inscription and date
Tunine Ite and Instruments Workers from Knutson
Construction bolted steel bases for the musical instruments to the footshyings Some members from the Rotary club helped assemble and install all the instruments and checked to make sure they performed properly
Prior to construction the Milmeapolis office of the SmithGroup an architectural engineering and inshyteriors plalming firm provided siteshyplanning design and consulting sershyvices JJ Vandermyde a community relations consulting firm in Northeast Minneapolis helped with site location and planning and Productivity Inc in Plymouth Minn provided the steel nameplates and photo engraving
The goals of the project according to Doug Schmitt of Schmitt Music are to provide easy access for children to play musical instruments and help people of all ages and cultures in the Northeast Minneapolis neighborhood
come together to enjoy making mushysic Schmitt who led the project is a long-time member and officer of the Rotary Club
Weve been involved in many community projects but this is the first time our club has actually built something in Minneapolis that vill last for years to come he said Its widely believed that music helps stushydents perform better in academics and builds leadership abilities
U of M chimes in The project costs approximately
$25000 which includes the cost of the instruments and a $4000 reshysearch component by the University of Minnesotas School of Music in asshysociation with the Learning Through Music Consulting Group to see how people especially school-age children use the instruments The research will not begin until early next year
In addition to donations by memshybers of the Rotary club major fundshying for the project was provided by two grants from Rotary International District 5950 which oversees 60 clubs in the Minneapolis metropolitan area central and southern Minnesota The District receives donations from the clubs and Rotary International then redistributes those funds to clubs in the District that apply for community service grants
Kids their moms dads and other residents in the Holland neighborshyhood of Northeast Minneapolis are already discovering the fun of playshying the instruments The park which is owned and maintained by the Park Board is at the intersection of 22nd Avenue NE and NE Jackson Street and is diagonally across from Edison High School which also played a key role in helping plan the addition to the playground
Workers from Knutson Construction and Mortenson used a motorized wheelbarrow to transport ready mix from an AVR portable concrete plant to the site to pour the footings and surface
December 13 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 5
Outdoor Play
Instrumentsdesign A ribbon-cutting ceremony in late
September formally recognized and thanked the contractors for all their services In addition to members of the Rotary club and the Governor of District 5950 participants at the event included representatives from the Park Board the MiImeapolis City Council and Edison High School
The seven percussion instruments were designed and manufactured by Freenotes Harmony Park in Hesperus Colo and were installed in a concert style semi-circle forshymation on a hill in front of a grassy area where people can gather to hear music However planners expect the instruments will be played mostly by people of all ages who bring their children to the playground or simply hang out at the park
Freenotes designed the instrushyments with non-musicians in mind
Edison High School students played the new instruments at opening ceremonies at Jackson Square Park
~ Rotary Club members helped contractors install playground instruments as part of a service project to Minneapolis students
according to Schmitt and they are tuned in the Pentatonic Scale similar to wind chimes The scale makes the instruments sound pleasant no matshyter who plays them or whatever their musical skill level may be
First outdoor In truments The instruments and their funcshy
tions are somewhat unusual The Swirl which consists of 26 aluminum chimes that are resonated by metal tubes five Metal Tuned Drums in bright vibrant colors that range from 7 to 15 inches in diameter vary in height and topped with white plasshytic covers seven Steel Contrabass Chimes that range in height from seven to nine feet Sunset on the Yantzee which is a xylophone that is constructed with 25-inch aluminum bars Glass Imbarimba that is styled after an African xylophone and a thumb piano a Manta Ray which
is a metallophone thats made with many individual chime tubes susshypended by a cable and a Pegasus which is a hefty metallophone thats made with 23 resonated aluminum bars
The project at Jackson Square Park and the installation of three Freenotes instruments earlier this spring at the Garlough Magnet School in West St Paul are the first outdoor playground musical instruments in Minnesota The company has also installed inshystruments in Salt Lake City and Moab Utah and Bethesda Md
Additional information about the playground instrument project can be found on the Rotary website at www colrcorg
Richard Parrish is president of MilldShare Communicatiolls a PR and communications agency ill Long Lake Minnesota
6 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010
3030 W Sa Crk 5 201 AlHnJton Helglt IL 8000U0211 8473911000 bull F 8473900408
EDITORIAL EdorIal Director Rod Sutton
rsuttonsgcmailcom
Edor Ivy Chang ichan~lfgtsgcmailcom 9529333386
D Kelsey Hiebert
MANAGEMENT VPGroup Pbllr Rick Schwer
rschwersgcmailcom
vp Conatractlon Group Rick Blesi rblesisgcmailcom
Director of Circulation Doug Reme driemersgcmailcom
Director of Creative Service amp Promotion
Sandi Stevenson sslevensonsgomBII com
ADVERTISING Intgrated Media CoMuant
Richard Thompson rthompsonsgcmailcom 952-401-1158
Advertlnll Coordinator Michelle Pak mpaksgcmailcom
RetWIIt Sal bullbullbull Marktlq A_ Adrienne Miller amillersgcmailcom
CORPORATE Chairman Emerttu (1922-2003)
HS Gillette
Chalrpereon KA Gillette
Pdent CEO ES Gillette
Sr Vice PraIdant Ann Fallon ONelll
Vice Prdent of Cuatorn Media Creatlv Servlcea _ Content M _
Diane Vojcanin
Vice Pr_nt of Evnt Harry Urban
Chief Financial OfIIcar David Shreiner
For reprint plea contect Adrienne Miller amillersgcmailcom
CONSTRUcnON BUUETIN CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN (USPS 13Q)60) is published weekly by SGC Horizon LLC 3030 W Salt Creek Lane Suite 201 Arlington Heights IL 60005 Periodical postage paid at Arlington Heights IL 60005 and other mailing offices Subscription Rates per year USA $22000 Canada $27900 (payable in USA funds) all other international $27900 (payable in USA funds) Single copies USA $1500 all international (payable in USA funds) $3000 Buyers Guide USA $3000 all international (payable in USA funds) $7000 Reproduction of contents is strictly forbidden ~ Copyright 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN is not responsible for the accuracy of any data claim or opinion appearing in this magazine and opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the magazine or its publishers The appearance of any advertisement or nevi product information does not constitute the endorsement of any product by CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN
POSTMASTER __r c to Circulation Department CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 3030 W_ Salt Creek Lane Suite 201 Arlington Heights IL 60005-5025
volume 295 number 29 and South Dakota since 1893
features departments 4 Construction Emphasizes 7 Project News
Outdoor Play Contractors worked in harshy 20 Advertisements for Bids money to build a playground project 24 Construction Mart
2 Industry News
2amp Calendar
ro SUBSCRIBE TO CONSTRUCTION BUL LETIN PLEASE GO TO WWWCDSREPORTNOWCOMRENEWNOWCBL
December 13 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 3
c AI
o o LAY By Richard Parrish
orne Twin Cities contractors came together in the fall to donate their construction
services equipment and materials to install seven unusual outdoor playshyground musical instruments at the Jackson Square Park playground in Northeast Minneapolis The project commemorated the 25th anniversashyry of the Minneapolis City of Lakes
Rotary Club which raised money to buy the instruments and collaboshyrated with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on the site location and development
Knutson Construction in suburban Golden Valley coordinated the work to build a patio area in the park and assemble and instaH the instruments which took about three days The
Con tractors
worked in
harmony to build
a playground
project
company also collaborated with the Rotary club and the Park Board on site planning helped recruit other contracshytors and provided several workers
Donating services Bollig amp Sons Hopkins provided
a crew and a Bobcat skid steer loader to excavate the site at the north end of the playground and to landscape a
4 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010
~ ~ A construction worker measured the depth of the hole designated for one of the musical instruments
small hill that sloped off to the west of the site The skid steer was also used to drill a number of footings to firmly anchor the large instruments for safeshyty and to prevent theft Workers from Knutson and Bollig set wood stakes by hand around the patio area where the instruments would be installed attached wood forms to the stakes to hold the concrete then spread a base of sand inside the forms
Apple Valley Red-E-Mix Apple Valley Minn deli vered concrete to the curb site and workers from Mortenson Construction Minneapolis used a motorized wheelbarrow to haul the concrete to the site and finished it with hand tools Before the concrete set the crew installed three 1-footshysquare stainless steel nameplates into the concrete one with the Rotary clubs logo another with the Rotary International wheel logo and the third with an inscription and date
Tunine Ite and Instruments Workers from Knutson
Construction bolted steel bases for the musical instruments to the footshyings Some members from the Rotary club helped assemble and install all the instruments and checked to make sure they performed properly
Prior to construction the Milmeapolis office of the SmithGroup an architectural engineering and inshyteriors plalming firm provided siteshyplanning design and consulting sershyvices JJ Vandermyde a community relations consulting firm in Northeast Minneapolis helped with site location and planning and Productivity Inc in Plymouth Minn provided the steel nameplates and photo engraving
The goals of the project according to Doug Schmitt of Schmitt Music are to provide easy access for children to play musical instruments and help people of all ages and cultures in the Northeast Minneapolis neighborhood
come together to enjoy making mushysic Schmitt who led the project is a long-time member and officer of the Rotary Club
Weve been involved in many community projects but this is the first time our club has actually built something in Minneapolis that vill last for years to come he said Its widely believed that music helps stushydents perform better in academics and builds leadership abilities
U of M chimes in The project costs approximately
$25000 which includes the cost of the instruments and a $4000 reshysearch component by the University of Minnesotas School of Music in asshysociation with the Learning Through Music Consulting Group to see how people especially school-age children use the instruments The research will not begin until early next year
In addition to donations by memshybers of the Rotary club major fundshying for the project was provided by two grants from Rotary International District 5950 which oversees 60 clubs in the Minneapolis metropolitan area central and southern Minnesota The District receives donations from the clubs and Rotary International then redistributes those funds to clubs in the District that apply for community service grants
Kids their moms dads and other residents in the Holland neighborshyhood of Northeast Minneapolis are already discovering the fun of playshying the instruments The park which is owned and maintained by the Park Board is at the intersection of 22nd Avenue NE and NE Jackson Street and is diagonally across from Edison High School which also played a key role in helping plan the addition to the playground
Workers from Knutson Construction and Mortenson used a motorized wheelbarrow to transport ready mix from an AVR portable concrete plant to the site to pour the footings and surface
December 13 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 5
Outdoor Play
Instrumentsdesign A ribbon-cutting ceremony in late
September formally recognized and thanked the contractors for all their services In addition to members of the Rotary club and the Governor of District 5950 participants at the event included representatives from the Park Board the MiImeapolis City Council and Edison High School
The seven percussion instruments were designed and manufactured by Freenotes Harmony Park in Hesperus Colo and were installed in a concert style semi-circle forshymation on a hill in front of a grassy area where people can gather to hear music However planners expect the instruments will be played mostly by people of all ages who bring their children to the playground or simply hang out at the park
Freenotes designed the instrushyments with non-musicians in mind
Edison High School students played the new instruments at opening ceremonies at Jackson Square Park
~ Rotary Club members helped contractors install playground instruments as part of a service project to Minneapolis students
according to Schmitt and they are tuned in the Pentatonic Scale similar to wind chimes The scale makes the instruments sound pleasant no matshyter who plays them or whatever their musical skill level may be
First outdoor In truments The instruments and their funcshy
tions are somewhat unusual The Swirl which consists of 26 aluminum chimes that are resonated by metal tubes five Metal Tuned Drums in bright vibrant colors that range from 7 to 15 inches in diameter vary in height and topped with white plasshytic covers seven Steel Contrabass Chimes that range in height from seven to nine feet Sunset on the Yantzee which is a xylophone that is constructed with 25-inch aluminum bars Glass Imbarimba that is styled after an African xylophone and a thumb piano a Manta Ray which
is a metallophone thats made with many individual chime tubes susshypended by a cable and a Pegasus which is a hefty metallophone thats made with 23 resonated aluminum bars
The project at Jackson Square Park and the installation of three Freenotes instruments earlier this spring at the Garlough Magnet School in West St Paul are the first outdoor playground musical instruments in Minnesota The company has also installed inshystruments in Salt Lake City and Moab Utah and Bethesda Md
Additional information about the playground instrument project can be found on the Rotary website at www colrcorg
Richard Parrish is president of MilldShare Communicatiolls a PR and communications agency ill Long Lake Minnesota
6 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010
c AI
o o LAY By Richard Parrish
orne Twin Cities contractors came together in the fall to donate their construction
services equipment and materials to install seven unusual outdoor playshyground musical instruments at the Jackson Square Park playground in Northeast Minneapolis The project commemorated the 25th anniversashyry of the Minneapolis City of Lakes
Rotary Club which raised money to buy the instruments and collaboshyrated with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on the site location and development
Knutson Construction in suburban Golden Valley coordinated the work to build a patio area in the park and assemble and instaH the instruments which took about three days The
Con tractors
worked in
harmony to build
a playground
project
company also collaborated with the Rotary club and the Park Board on site planning helped recruit other contracshytors and provided several workers
Donating services Bollig amp Sons Hopkins provided
a crew and a Bobcat skid steer loader to excavate the site at the north end of the playground and to landscape a
4 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010
~ ~ A construction worker measured the depth of the hole designated for one of the musical instruments
small hill that sloped off to the west of the site The skid steer was also used to drill a number of footings to firmly anchor the large instruments for safeshyty and to prevent theft Workers from Knutson and Bollig set wood stakes by hand around the patio area where the instruments would be installed attached wood forms to the stakes to hold the concrete then spread a base of sand inside the forms
Apple Valley Red-E-Mix Apple Valley Minn deli vered concrete to the curb site and workers from Mortenson Construction Minneapolis used a motorized wheelbarrow to haul the concrete to the site and finished it with hand tools Before the concrete set the crew installed three 1-footshysquare stainless steel nameplates into the concrete one with the Rotary clubs logo another with the Rotary International wheel logo and the third with an inscription and date
Tunine Ite and Instruments Workers from Knutson
Construction bolted steel bases for the musical instruments to the footshyings Some members from the Rotary club helped assemble and install all the instruments and checked to make sure they performed properly
Prior to construction the Milmeapolis office of the SmithGroup an architectural engineering and inshyteriors plalming firm provided siteshyplanning design and consulting sershyvices JJ Vandermyde a community relations consulting firm in Northeast Minneapolis helped with site location and planning and Productivity Inc in Plymouth Minn provided the steel nameplates and photo engraving
The goals of the project according to Doug Schmitt of Schmitt Music are to provide easy access for children to play musical instruments and help people of all ages and cultures in the Northeast Minneapolis neighborhood
come together to enjoy making mushysic Schmitt who led the project is a long-time member and officer of the Rotary Club
Weve been involved in many community projects but this is the first time our club has actually built something in Minneapolis that vill last for years to come he said Its widely believed that music helps stushydents perform better in academics and builds leadership abilities
U of M chimes in The project costs approximately
$25000 which includes the cost of the instruments and a $4000 reshysearch component by the University of Minnesotas School of Music in asshysociation with the Learning Through Music Consulting Group to see how people especially school-age children use the instruments The research will not begin until early next year
In addition to donations by memshybers of the Rotary club major fundshying for the project was provided by two grants from Rotary International District 5950 which oversees 60 clubs in the Minneapolis metropolitan area central and southern Minnesota The District receives donations from the clubs and Rotary International then redistributes those funds to clubs in the District that apply for community service grants
Kids their moms dads and other residents in the Holland neighborshyhood of Northeast Minneapolis are already discovering the fun of playshying the instruments The park which is owned and maintained by the Park Board is at the intersection of 22nd Avenue NE and NE Jackson Street and is diagonally across from Edison High School which also played a key role in helping plan the addition to the playground
Workers from Knutson Construction and Mortenson used a motorized wheelbarrow to transport ready mix from an AVR portable concrete plant to the site to pour the footings and surface
December 13 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 5
Outdoor Play
Instrumentsdesign A ribbon-cutting ceremony in late
September formally recognized and thanked the contractors for all their services In addition to members of the Rotary club and the Governor of District 5950 participants at the event included representatives from the Park Board the MiImeapolis City Council and Edison High School
The seven percussion instruments were designed and manufactured by Freenotes Harmony Park in Hesperus Colo and were installed in a concert style semi-circle forshymation on a hill in front of a grassy area where people can gather to hear music However planners expect the instruments will be played mostly by people of all ages who bring their children to the playground or simply hang out at the park
Freenotes designed the instrushyments with non-musicians in mind
Edison High School students played the new instruments at opening ceremonies at Jackson Square Park
~ Rotary Club members helped contractors install playground instruments as part of a service project to Minneapolis students
according to Schmitt and they are tuned in the Pentatonic Scale similar to wind chimes The scale makes the instruments sound pleasant no matshyter who plays them or whatever their musical skill level may be
First outdoor In truments The instruments and their funcshy
tions are somewhat unusual The Swirl which consists of 26 aluminum chimes that are resonated by metal tubes five Metal Tuned Drums in bright vibrant colors that range from 7 to 15 inches in diameter vary in height and topped with white plasshytic covers seven Steel Contrabass Chimes that range in height from seven to nine feet Sunset on the Yantzee which is a xylophone that is constructed with 25-inch aluminum bars Glass Imbarimba that is styled after an African xylophone and a thumb piano a Manta Ray which
is a metallophone thats made with many individual chime tubes susshypended by a cable and a Pegasus which is a hefty metallophone thats made with 23 resonated aluminum bars
The project at Jackson Square Park and the installation of three Freenotes instruments earlier this spring at the Garlough Magnet School in West St Paul are the first outdoor playground musical instruments in Minnesota The company has also installed inshystruments in Salt Lake City and Moab Utah and Bethesda Md
Additional information about the playground instrument project can be found on the Rotary website at www colrcorg
Richard Parrish is president of MilldShare Communicatiolls a PR and communications agency ill Long Lake Minnesota
6 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010
~ ~ A construction worker measured the depth of the hole designated for one of the musical instruments
small hill that sloped off to the west of the site The skid steer was also used to drill a number of footings to firmly anchor the large instruments for safeshyty and to prevent theft Workers from Knutson and Bollig set wood stakes by hand around the patio area where the instruments would be installed attached wood forms to the stakes to hold the concrete then spread a base of sand inside the forms
Apple Valley Red-E-Mix Apple Valley Minn deli vered concrete to the curb site and workers from Mortenson Construction Minneapolis used a motorized wheelbarrow to haul the concrete to the site and finished it with hand tools Before the concrete set the crew installed three 1-footshysquare stainless steel nameplates into the concrete one with the Rotary clubs logo another with the Rotary International wheel logo and the third with an inscription and date
Tunine Ite and Instruments Workers from Knutson
Construction bolted steel bases for the musical instruments to the footshyings Some members from the Rotary club helped assemble and install all the instruments and checked to make sure they performed properly
Prior to construction the Milmeapolis office of the SmithGroup an architectural engineering and inshyteriors plalming firm provided siteshyplanning design and consulting sershyvices JJ Vandermyde a community relations consulting firm in Northeast Minneapolis helped with site location and planning and Productivity Inc in Plymouth Minn provided the steel nameplates and photo engraving
The goals of the project according to Doug Schmitt of Schmitt Music are to provide easy access for children to play musical instruments and help people of all ages and cultures in the Northeast Minneapolis neighborhood
come together to enjoy making mushysic Schmitt who led the project is a long-time member and officer of the Rotary Club
Weve been involved in many community projects but this is the first time our club has actually built something in Minneapolis that vill last for years to come he said Its widely believed that music helps stushydents perform better in academics and builds leadership abilities
U of M chimes in The project costs approximately
$25000 which includes the cost of the instruments and a $4000 reshysearch component by the University of Minnesotas School of Music in asshysociation with the Learning Through Music Consulting Group to see how people especially school-age children use the instruments The research will not begin until early next year
In addition to donations by memshybers of the Rotary club major fundshying for the project was provided by two grants from Rotary International District 5950 which oversees 60 clubs in the Minneapolis metropolitan area central and southern Minnesota The District receives donations from the clubs and Rotary International then redistributes those funds to clubs in the District that apply for community service grants
Kids their moms dads and other residents in the Holland neighborshyhood of Northeast Minneapolis are already discovering the fun of playshying the instruments The park which is owned and maintained by the Park Board is at the intersection of 22nd Avenue NE and NE Jackson Street and is diagonally across from Edison High School which also played a key role in helping plan the addition to the playground
Workers from Knutson Construction and Mortenson used a motorized wheelbarrow to transport ready mix from an AVR portable concrete plant to the site to pour the footings and surface
December 13 2010 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 5
Outdoor Play
Instrumentsdesign A ribbon-cutting ceremony in late
September formally recognized and thanked the contractors for all their services In addition to members of the Rotary club and the Governor of District 5950 participants at the event included representatives from the Park Board the MiImeapolis City Council and Edison High School
The seven percussion instruments were designed and manufactured by Freenotes Harmony Park in Hesperus Colo and were installed in a concert style semi-circle forshymation on a hill in front of a grassy area where people can gather to hear music However planners expect the instruments will be played mostly by people of all ages who bring their children to the playground or simply hang out at the park
Freenotes designed the instrushyments with non-musicians in mind
Edison High School students played the new instruments at opening ceremonies at Jackson Square Park
~ Rotary Club members helped contractors install playground instruments as part of a service project to Minneapolis students
according to Schmitt and they are tuned in the Pentatonic Scale similar to wind chimes The scale makes the instruments sound pleasant no matshyter who plays them or whatever their musical skill level may be
First outdoor In truments The instruments and their funcshy
tions are somewhat unusual The Swirl which consists of 26 aluminum chimes that are resonated by metal tubes five Metal Tuned Drums in bright vibrant colors that range from 7 to 15 inches in diameter vary in height and topped with white plasshytic covers seven Steel Contrabass Chimes that range in height from seven to nine feet Sunset on the Yantzee which is a xylophone that is constructed with 25-inch aluminum bars Glass Imbarimba that is styled after an African xylophone and a thumb piano a Manta Ray which
is a metallophone thats made with many individual chime tubes susshypended by a cable and a Pegasus which is a hefty metallophone thats made with 23 resonated aluminum bars
The project at Jackson Square Park and the installation of three Freenotes instruments earlier this spring at the Garlough Magnet School in West St Paul are the first outdoor playground musical instruments in Minnesota The company has also installed inshystruments in Salt Lake City and Moab Utah and Bethesda Md
Additional information about the playground instrument project can be found on the Rotary website at www colrcorg
Richard Parrish is president of MilldShare Communicatiolls a PR and communications agency ill Long Lake Minnesota
6 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010
Outdoor Play
Instrumentsdesign A ribbon-cutting ceremony in late
September formally recognized and thanked the contractors for all their services In addition to members of the Rotary club and the Governor of District 5950 participants at the event included representatives from the Park Board the MiImeapolis City Council and Edison High School
The seven percussion instruments were designed and manufactured by Freenotes Harmony Park in Hesperus Colo and were installed in a concert style semi-circle forshymation on a hill in front of a grassy area where people can gather to hear music However planners expect the instruments will be played mostly by people of all ages who bring their children to the playground or simply hang out at the park
Freenotes designed the instrushyments with non-musicians in mind
Edison High School students played the new instruments at opening ceremonies at Jackson Square Park
~ Rotary Club members helped contractors install playground instruments as part of a service project to Minneapolis students
according to Schmitt and they are tuned in the Pentatonic Scale similar to wind chimes The scale makes the instruments sound pleasant no matshyter who plays them or whatever their musical skill level may be
First outdoor In truments The instruments and their funcshy
tions are somewhat unusual The Swirl which consists of 26 aluminum chimes that are resonated by metal tubes five Metal Tuned Drums in bright vibrant colors that range from 7 to 15 inches in diameter vary in height and topped with white plasshytic covers seven Steel Contrabass Chimes that range in height from seven to nine feet Sunset on the Yantzee which is a xylophone that is constructed with 25-inch aluminum bars Glass Imbarimba that is styled after an African xylophone and a thumb piano a Manta Ray which
is a metallophone thats made with many individual chime tubes susshypended by a cable and a Pegasus which is a hefty metallophone thats made with 23 resonated aluminum bars
The project at Jackson Square Park and the installation of three Freenotes instruments earlier this spring at the Garlough Magnet School in West St Paul are the first outdoor playground musical instruments in Minnesota The company has also installed inshystruments in Salt Lake City and Moab Utah and Bethesda Md
Additional information about the playground instrument project can be found on the Rotary website at www colrcorg
Richard Parrish is president of MilldShare Communicatiolls a PR and communications agency ill Long Lake Minnesota
6 CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN December 13 2010