To all our sponsors and contributors:

In June of 2009, the City of Elliot Lake became one of twenty-five ( 25 ) Communities across Canada to be awarded a “ Let them be Kids / Kool-Aid Helping Hand Award “. This award recognized the importance of celebrating the spirit of our Community and creating “ Free Play and Access for all.

We would like to take this opportunity to extend a sincere thank you from the City of Elliot Lake, Let Them Be Kids, Kool-Aid and most importantly the children of our community, for your contribution to the successful completion of three ( 3 ) new parks.

Through your financial contribution, we were able to provide “ Free Play and Access for All “. Efforts which will continue to help build our great City. Through becoming involved in the “ Let them be Kids “ initiative, you have continued the partnership whereby people from many sectors - business, community groups, government, etc - work together to create a vibrant place to live, work, and play.

The overwhelming response to this event has prompted the City of Elliot Lake Council, to look at hosting an annual event. As our award carries over for two ( 2 ) more years, we are hoping for another tremendous success !!

You’ll notice a drawing on the back of this letter. This art, created by a local child, depicts their vision of an ideal park. During the planning of this project a Dot Mocracy was held. Local children were given 4 votes to choose their favourite pieces of equipment. The most popular were used to design our new parks. Because of you, their visions are now reality.

We hope you will experience and enjoy the new parks. Take the time to listen to the laughter of our local children as they play on these new structures. They are fun, safe and best of all, built by a community that creates together.

We know that without Volunteers, our Community would not be what it is. We also know that without the continuous support of sponsors, Volunteer efforts would be much more difficult. Your generous consideration of assistance is greatly appreciated. We celebrate your contribution and thank you from the bottom of our hearts.


Karen Makela Kirstan Noel
Director, Parks and Recreation Let Them Be Kids - Elliot Lake Coordinator

Build Day Video

We've just created a video with pictures from Build Day and both Dot Mocracies!  The song is "Proud" by Heather Small, which was provided to us by Let Them Be Kids.  Please enjoy!