A young Utah resident has had her classroom civics lessons suddenly explode into life after some crayon drawings she made of a better playground became reality.
Her mom brought her to city hall along with her drawing, and being that a new playground was already budgeted for, they followed 11-year-old Rosili Olson’s lead.
Olson, now 12, had made the drawings to sketch out what she thought would be the best playground for her and her younger sisters to play on.
“Rosili realized the playground by her house was suited for ages 5-12 and was not geared toward her younger sister,” Clearfield County officials wrote in the caption of a Facebook video showing off the creation process. “After seeing her initiative and detail, we knew we had to make her dream happen.”
Olson’s mother called city hall and asked if it were possible to bring them in. They agreed, and soon were in the office of Eric Howes, the city’s head of parks and recreation, to make the pitch.
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“It was budgeted but we didn’t have any specifics,” Howes said to local paper the Standard-Examiner.
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“After seeing all the effort she put into all of those drawings knowing we’d already ordered the playground for the park right by her house, the next best thing was to say, ‘We’ve got a playground coming in next year,’” he said, with the Facebook statement adding that they “reviewed multiple versions until we had checked all her boxes and got the colors right.”
The collaborative process saw Olson and Howes meet four or five times, right up until the Septebmer 24th ribbon-cutting ceremony which Olson was of course a part of.
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