Sean Collier Memorial Playground Officially Opens

Photos Courtesy Judy Jaynes

The Sean Collier Memorial Playground at Silver Lake is officially open following a dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday.

View the ribbon cutting as the playground officially opened Saturday (courtesy of the Where Angels Play Foundation):

The playground was donated and built by Where Angels Play, a New Jersey-based non-profit that seeks to create joyful places to play and to provide hope, recovery, and a return to family values in the wake of senseless violence and tragedy. Where Angels Play built 26 playgrounds in areas damaged by Hurricane Sandy in honor of the 26 students and teachers who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Each is named after a student or teacher who was killed in the attack.

Sean Collier, an MIT officer at the time of his death, and a Wilmington native was killed four days after the Boston Marathon bombings when he was ambushed in his police cruiser by Tsarnaev and his brother, who were the center of the manhunt that terrorized the state and the region, killing four and injuring more than 170 others.

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