Around South County: Deale Elementary students still need $2,000 for new playground

The Deale business community has rallied 'round to help Deale Elementary School get a new playground, but the playground committee still needs just $2,000 more to start the project.

The students have already raised $14,000 on their own, including the last few thousand through an enthusiastic penny drive, but they are still $2,000 shy of the $16,000 needed to design, resurface and equip a badly needed new playground.

"The efforts of Deale children emptying out their piggybanks has yielded the same amount as...