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Intown Academy celebrates volunteer-built playground

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May 13, 2013

Intown Academy is marking the completion of the first phase of its $56,000 playground project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.

The playground was built with the help of volunteers from intown Atlanta neighborhoods, Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business and Ernst & Young.

Intown Academy is a public charter school in Atlanta’s Fourth Ward neighborhood.

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