Children's Park

This post is especially for Colin, Aman and Isaiah who spent many a weekend polishing up the lawns and sidewalks of our local children's park.
Our local Baha'i Community spend years constructing and maintaining this park for the town's children and their parents. At one point we had painted the wall in the rear with a wonderful scene of world children's faces (see photos below).
The recent repainting of the benches was done (and the sidewalk--including the decorative brick 9-pointed star we made on the corner) by the Red Cross next door.

After a change of local government took over the park (interestingly, without a bit of recognition for our years of maintaining it) it was again abandoned for some time. I suppose the people next door got tired of looking at it and made these improvements.
Here's a shot from years ago of the Baha'is casting the sidewalks (that's Ali in the shades).This is the original mural which Leonard Ericks spent weeks painting. The sidewalks and benches had not been made at this point:Here's another angle showing our sign which says: "The earth is one country and mankind it's citizens, Baha'u'llah" All the public buses and traffic passed right by this park every day, so thousands of people were able to appreciate this message.