Bracken and Lewis Co. get crumb grants...

[ponto]

Crumb rubber, made from recycled scrap tires, is used for mulch on playgrounds, for fitness/walking tracks, landscaping and for reduction in soil degradation on athletic fields.

The state grants are from the Waste Tire Trust Fund, established by the 1998 Kentucky General Assembly to receive a $1 fee from each sale of a new tire in the state.

LEWIS -- Kiddie Kastle Daycare, playground, $10,833;

Tollesboro Elementary, playground, $52,677.

BRACKEN -- Taylor Elementary and Bracken County middle schools, two playgrounds,
$19,080.

No crumbs for Mason County this year.................

[Marcia_Montieth]

I am one that doesnt like the tire chips in the playround at school. My sister goes to school in Ripley they had the tire chips and it ruins white shoes. My kids go to Tollesboro Elementary and i hate to hear that they are getting tire chips in the playground. Say good bye to clean white shoes..........

[Foxy]

Wow... sorry but safer material on a playground and not in a dump somewhere not decompossing.... or white shoes?

REALLY?

[Huey]

I'm glad to hear about the tire crumbs- no more pulling slivers of wood chips out of kids flip flops or sending kids to the school nurse to remove splinters from their hands when they fall. I have seen some wood chips penetrate shoe soles all the way through the bottom of the shoe to the sole of the foot...