The children’s playground, located behind the Squantum School, is in need of critical renovations to insure the safety of the children running and playing in the park.

Help support the playground renovations and create a lasting memorial by buying a brick with your special message engraved! Your engraved brick will become a permanent part of the brick walkway at the playground.

This is a great way to celebrate friends and family, send a special message, or honor a loved one. Consider buying a brick to honor a loved one for their birthday, pay tribute to mom and dad on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, or commemorate an anniversary.

How to Buy a Brick:
For a $100 donation, your message will be inscribed on a brick that will become a permanent part of the Squantum Playground walkway.

Payment options:

1. Request an order form and pay by check, cash or credit card.
   Contact Stacey LeMay to request an order form at sno224@yahoo.com or 617-460-5875.
2. Pay using this PayPal form:
   Please note: You can have up to 3 lines of text on your brick, with a maximum of 20 characters per line; spacing and punctuation count as a character.
   Every line will be centered on the brick.
   In the PayPal form below -
   enter your text for line 1 in the “Line 1″ field, and
   enter text for lines 2 and 3 in the “Line 2&3″ field. Please enter a “#” sign between lines 2 and 3 (sorry! PayPal only gave us 2 lines for this form!) We’ll email you to confirm your brick message.
   (note: form removed as the program has ended)

Proceeds benefit the Squantum Playground Renovation Project
Learn more about the Playground Renovation project.

Ciara O’Connor, Lauren Manning, Brigid Norris, and Mary Loney are raising funds for the Richard family of Dorchester

When four little Squantumites were faced with the news that tragedy had hit near home on Marathon Monday, they packed up the lemonade, cookies, and their fabulous smiles, and headed to the triangle at the corner of East Squantum and Huckins Ave to do what they do best – host a bake sale to help.

This isn’t the first time Mary Loney, Lauren Manning, Brigid Norris and Ciara O’Connor have headed to the triangle when they learned of a family in need. Not long ago they raised funds for neighbor Mike Struzik when they learned that he might need some help battling cancer.

So this week, during school vacation, these girls spent their time raising funds for the family of Martin Richard, our 8-year-old neighbor from Dorchester who lost his life on Monday, and for his mother and sister who are battling injuries sustained during the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Having set a goal of $2000, the girls hope they can help with whatever might be needed by the Richard family, suggesting it might help fund a prosthetic leg, or pay for medicine for Martin’s mother and sister. When we chatted, they had raised $2300, and more cars were stopping by dropping off checks.

If you are on your way by the triangle, keep your eye out for the girls and pick up a delicious Ginger Betty cookie or some lemonade, all served with a great big smile.

Thank you girls!