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IPR brought our Snug system to the DOE Annual Playday for Honolulu District on April 13, 2011. Over 400 special needs preschoolers attended the event at Manoa Gym. Click to see KITV News coverage of the Honolulu Playday that includes children using the Snug bump and noodles.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser – Our Voice Prison Gets Playground For Kids’ Visits by Gordon Y.K. Pang » Read Online Sunday, December 12, 2010 Inmates at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua and their visiting children now have a small oasis to enjoy during their short time together, thanks to a…

Pacific Business News » Read Online Child’s Play Is Big Business at Cole Academy October 14, 2011 Cole Academy owner Gina Mangieri and her husband, Doug Ewalt, try out the playground equipment at their new preschool and day-care center in Kapolei. The 13,500-square-foot facility on Ala Kahawai Street, which opens Monday,…

Star Advertiser – Hawaii’s Jobs <PDF file> It’s All Work And Lots Of Play At IPR by Sarah Pacheco Sunday, August 7, 2011 Creating innovative playground equipment for Hawaii’s keiki is the aim of IPR Inc. When Gideon Naiditch, Ian Ross and Faye Takata founded IPR Inc., the playground industry…

Hawaii Tribune Herald <PDF file> It Takes A Village To Build A Playground At Hilo’s Zoo by Colin M. Stewart Wednesday, July 27, 2011 If towns could be measured by their spirit of community volunteerism, then little old Hilo would be the New York City of the Pacific, according to…

The Maui News » Read Online More Work Than Play photo by Matthew Thayer Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Dax Grover (left) and Jai Cox of Innovative Playgrounds and Recreation Inc. install a replacement slide at the Wailuku Heights Park playground Tuesday afternoon. Grover said that as construction projects go, assembling…