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Category Archives: January 2005
OPRA Connection
Many challenges confront youth-serving organizations. Limited budgets have required many to reduce program offerings. Staff may struggle to balance developing creative programs with staffing of facilities and managing administrative responsibilities. Cultural or financial barriers may prevent successful access to programs … Continue reading
In The News
It was the spring of 1970 that I first met Sheryl Lynn Clark, later to be known as Sherry. Her eagerness and enthusiasm to do a great job as recreation trainee III at the 20th Street Gym for Denver Parks … Continue reading
The Incident Command System
Since the school shootings of the 1990s, the terrorist attacks of 2001, the Station Night Club fire in Rhode Island, the California mudslides, Western wildfires other tragic events, most people are aware of the importance of mitigation and emergency preparedness, … Continue reading
Finding Purpose
Editor’s Note: Parks & Rec Business magazine continues the 2004 series focusing on… Everything H20, from pool equipment, safety, staffing and programming to profiles and perspectives on the latest aquatics facilities, water parks and splash parks in public parks and … Continue reading
Craft Connection
This may be hard to believe, but long ago, in a distant galaxy, children actually played outside, building forts and getting dirty while riding bikes through mud puddles. Most astonishing was that these children got together spontaneously and were unsupervised! … Continue reading