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Winkler slide part of White House playset
FIRST it was Arnold. Now it's Obama and his kids.
A Winkler plastics company found out this week that one of the tube slides it makes for a swing-set manufacturer based in South Dakota has made its way to the White House.
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The slide, made by Acrylon Plastics in Winkler, was part of a play structure U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle ordered as a surprise for their daughters, Malia and Sasha.
"I think it's pretty exciting that something from Canada and even Winkler ends up on the White House lawn," said Acrylon operations manager Ron Funk.
But Acrylon's slides aren't politically partisan. Not only are they installed in a Democratic White House, they were featured in a movie starring one of the world's most famous Republicans.
Back when Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a movie star, he shared a brief scene in the 1996 Christmas comedy Jingle All The Way with one of Acrylon's slides located in the Mall of America in Minneapolis.
Funk said workers in Winkler didn't know they were making a slide for the White House. They got word of it earlier this week when Rainbow Play Systems of Brookings, S.D., forwarded photos and news stories about the play set installed two weeks ago.
Acrylon makes all kinds of plastic products for agriculture and industry and it has long supplied slides and crawl tunnels to Rainbow Play Systems.
The souped-up swing set is located on the south grounds of the White House. Besides Acrylon's three-metre scoop slide, the set has four swings a fort, a climbing wall and climbing ropes.
maryagnes.welch@freepress.mb.ca
-- With files from The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 19, 2009 A2
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