PHOTO: Setting the stage for playground in Port Angeles

Port Angeles Parks Department employee Eli Hammel, right, moves a wheelbarrow of foam tiles as coworker Elliott Messmer waits to begin placing them around newly installed playground toys at Georgiana Park near Olympic Medical Center on Wednesday.

The playground equipment, purchased through grants and a fundraising drive and installed by parks workers, is expected to be completed and open to the public in early October, parks department Director Corey Delikat said.