{"id":9712,"date":"2017-09-07T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/article\/\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:00:59","slug":"littlestar-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/littlestar-playgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Littlestar Plastics chips in on playground project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOVES PARK \u2013 The management team of <a href=\"https:\/\/littlestarplastics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Littlestar Plastics<\/a> is joining several other groups Friday, Sept. 8, to build two playgrounds for the <a href=\"http:\/\/rockriverymca.org\/Locations\/Northeast-YMCA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northeast Family YMCA<\/a> campus.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5615 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo.jpg 717w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-209x146.jpg 209w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-50x35.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-108x75.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Littlestar is one of top plastics manufacturers in the country, with the rare ability to design and manufacturer components, parts or assemblies through fabrication, machining and injection molding. For this project, Littlestar&#8217;s management team will simply be helping with assembly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katw.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kids Around the World<\/a> is overseeing the construction of the playgrounds. One is specifically for children up to preschool ages, the other for 6- to 12-year-olds. The playgrounds were made possible by support from the Berry family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.com\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Technologies Corp.<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fconline.foundationcenter.org\/grantmaker-profile\/?collection=grantmakers&amp;activity=result&amp;key=RENO005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reno Family Foundation<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/rockfordparkdistrict.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rockford Park District<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Construction will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Kids Around the World and the YMCA are looking for more volunteers. If you push a wheelbarrow, they could use your help. If interested, contact Melissa Burns of the YMCA at 815-885-6844.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVES PARK \u2013 The management team of Littlestar Plastics is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/littlestar-playgrounds\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}