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A group of children gathered at Lake Sara Beach Park Friday to take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony and try out a new sidewalk obstacle course. The local artist who painted the pirate-themed obstacle course that consists of several different games, Sara Roepke, said it took her about four days to complete the project, and she didn’t let the recent heat wave deter her. Roepke lives on Lake Sara and has been helping a local organization, Lake Sara Forever, with its efforts to revitalize Lake Sara Beach Park.

“It was a fun activity,” Roepke said. “I’ve always enjoyed art, and I always like to do those creative type of things.” As a former grade school teacher, Roepke wanted to design an obstacle course that would be both educational and entertaining for children visiting the park, particularly those who are between 2 and 10 years old.



She explained that the brightly colored obstacle course is meant to draw in young children, and there are numbers painted along the obstacle course that both guide children though the course and teach them to count. “Kids can learn their colors when they’re 1 and 2 years old, so you could do the colors with the little kids. And then counting by 10s, that’s an older concept, so that could be for maybe 8,9, 10-year-olds,” she said.

“I wanted to incorporate all those concepts into the obstacle course, so the kids could walk through it and do all of the different games.” One of the residents who attended the ribbon cutting Fri.

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