LINCOLN PARK — Logan Guild, 3, is the hero Supera Park needed.
Logan plays at Supera with his grandpa at least once a day but was disappointed to see sandbox toys left at the park for kids to play with were broken over the winter. He said he likes the park because it's "fun."
"It has a slide and swings and ... sandboxes," Logan said. "They wanted to play with [the toys] there. They were broken."
Realizing he could change that, Logan asked his grandpa, Donald Crews, of Lincoln Park, if they could buy toys for the sandbox. Crews explained they'd have to leave the toys at Supera, which Logan agreed to do.
"He wanted to always have them there for not only himself but also the other kids he plays with every time he goes there," Crews said.
They bought plastic pails, shovels and rakes, dump trucks and more, and then dropped them off at the park and explained that other kids could play with them. Logan also picked up the broken toys and threw them out so kids wouldn't play with them or get hurt.
"Every time he goes to the park he runs over and checks on [the toys] to make sure they're still there," Crews said. "And he was very proud of the fact that he did something like that."
And how does Logan feel when he sees the toys at Supera Park?
"Happy," the 3-year-old said.
Kelly Bauer says Guild made plenty of other kids happy:
Kids, nannies and parents who use the park thanked the 3-year-old, Crews said, with one parent saying, "You've made a lot of friends, Logan."
Crews said his grandson is "very smart" and conscious of what's happening around him, especially when it comes to his favorite parks.
"I thought when we were doing all this that it would be a good lesson, a life lesson for a 3-year-old," Crews said. "It's hard for a 3-year-old to comprehend sharing ... and I thought this would be a great life lesson [for] him is to share his toys with other kids at his playground."
Logan Guild, 3, donated sandbox toys to Supera Park.
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