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Perry Hall Leaders to Brief County Executive on Angel Park
The park near Perry Hall Library will include an amphitheater, special playground.
The creators of Angel Park, an interactive venue planned for Perry Hall, will receive a $100,000 check Tuesday toward the project’s development, according to a statement from Baltimore County.
Community leaders have been working to bring Angel Park to fruition in the space next to the Perry Hall Library since 2012. Located along Honeygo Boulevard, it will include an amphitheater and a playground with special amenities designed for children with disabilities.
Andy and Kelli Szczybor of Perry Hall, whose son Ryan died of leukemia when he was 15 months old, are the inspiration behind the park, according to Baltimore County officials.
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“Angel Park is a park that we’re building for everyone,” Kelli Szczybor said in a video about the project. “This is a park that will have a safe and durable base for anyone, no matter what their limits.”
Children from local elementary schools helped brainstorm the design for the playground, Andy Szczybor said.
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Students from Chapel Hill, Perry Hall, Joppa View, Gunpowder, Perry Hall Christian, Seven Oaks and Kingsville elementary schools as well as St. Joseph Catholic School contributed their ideas via drawings, which included features such as sandboxes with buried treasure, ziplines and a pirate ship, The Baltimore Sun reported.
Project sponsors include the Perry Hall Library Foundation, Baltimore County Savings Bank, Rosedale Federal, Whiting-Turner, the Amirault family, White Marsh Plaza Liquors and others, according to the county, which reports more than 250 citizens have volunteered to help alongside the Angel Park planning committee.
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz will meet with Perry Hall community leaders Tuesday at his office, where they will brief him on their fundraising efforts, and the Cole Foundation will present a ceremonial check for $100,000, according to the county. Angel Park leaders report the check will fund the 250-seat amphitheater, which will be called the “Bud and Bette Cole Amphitheater.”
Angel Park is slated for construction in summer 2015, the county reported.
Rendering courtesy of Leathers and Associates/Angel Park.
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