Grant Money Helps Build New Tulsa Elementary School Playground

Students at Celia Clinton Elementary School are breaking in a new playground, and they celebrated with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday morning.

Not only did the school install new playground equipment, it also added two basketball courts and a running track.

About $120,000 were spent to make the improvements.

The money came through grants provided by the Rotary Club of Tulsa, the Helmerich Foundation and the Sharna and Irving Frank Foundation.

The school says the original playground was outdated.

"They had done some measurements on obesity, and about 49 percent of these kids measured obese,” Tulsa Rotary Club's Marc Short said. “So with the running track and the basketball court and new equipment, we think that will help with a lot of recreational operations."

The Rotary Club says this is one of the largest donations ever received by Tulsa Public Schools.