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CPRS
Register now at the lowest rate available for conference. In 2020, the CPRS Conference & Expo returns to Long Beach, March 10-13, 2020. Click here to register.
CPRS
It's time to take a moment and recognize the excellence around you... that rising professional you have been mentoring, the new program you just developed or perhaps that newly rehabilitated park your team just completed. It's now time to celebrate that excellence by nominating the people, places, spaces and programs around you for a CPRS Award! Submit your nominations now!
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Cool Terra® Organic, the perfect solution for improving planting outcomes and reducing mortality rates sustainably across city parks & recreational fields. Cool Terra® Organic improves soil health creating greater plant resiliency and reducing water use. Healthy soil means healthy parks & fields.
Click here for your Cool Terra® solution.
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CPRS Job Highlight
The CPRS Job Center currently has over 40 job announcements; here is a current job announcement that may interest you.
Community Program Administrator, Indio, California — Click here for details.
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Centre for Urban Research
Temporary pop-up parks and green spaces have long been considered the playthings of the inner-city hipster. But they also offer great benefits for the environment and the physical and mental wellbeing of people, according to RMIT University researchers.
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Santa Maria Times
A softball field near the Minami Center and a Little League baseball diamond at Simas Park are undergoing alterations.
The Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department is currently converting both those dirt-covered fields to all-grass surfaces.
The City of Santa Maria hopes the conversions will allow those fields to be used for multiple sports, such as soccer, football or even lacrosse, along with baseball or softball, instead of just being one-sport surfaces. Some Santa Maria residents argue the American pastime won't return those fields once the changes are complete.
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Forbes
A recent weekend marked the end of another record-breaking season for a festive Philadelphia tradition called Parks on Tap, a roving beer garden that, combined with additional social activities, showed once again how Philly is serving as a national model for using beer, wine and liquor to drive urban placemaking and fundraising.
With the city’s encouragement, Parks on Tap launched with 14 locations as the country’s first full-scale, family-friendly beer garden to travel to a different city park five evenings each week.
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Superintendents in small and mid-size park departments have seen excellent results after equipping CPSIs with digital inspection tools. "It makes the job much easier for our staff doing inspections in the field," shares one parks superintendent. Learn more about the ways your department can use technology to improve inspection processes.
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NASP® was developed to serve these specific educational and conservation purposes. Every state enrolled in NASP® has a "Coordinator" in charge of leading the program in their jurisdiction. They hope to engage each student in the educational process and develop relationships to promote graduation instead of drop-out.
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Sierra Sun Times
The California Department of Parks and Recreation (State Parks) is seeking comment on draft guidelines for applying for $46.2 million in funding from two new statewide grant programs. State Parks will hold nine public meetings throughout the state in October and November to receive public feedback for the Regional Park Program and the Rural Recreation and Tourism Program created by Proposition 68 of 2018.
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Sonoma Index-Tribune
As Tjiska Van Wyk made the rounds of the annual Jack London Gala cocktail hour on the green on Sept. 21, outside the winery stage, she seemed even more enthusiastically gregarious than usual. She dragged photographer Rebecca Gosselin from one attending couple or clutch to another, greeting all like long-lost best friends and posing for pictures.
Some of her enthusiasm may have been because that’s her job, as executive director of the Jack London Park Partners, the nonprofit which in 2012 took over operations of the state historic park outside Glen Ellen.
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Playground Professionals
Outdoor education is beneficial, if not essential to child development.
Recognizing these benefits, UrbanMathTrails, a math education consultancy is partnering with The Trust for Public Land’s NYC Playgrounds Program, a non-profit committed to building student-designed playgrounds at public schools across the five boroughs, to activate its over 200 playgrounds as innovative outdoor classrooms.
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Glendale Star
n wraparound sunglasses, a twisted goatee and black leather vest, the burly Bernie Kendall looks like a big, tough dude. Until Robert “Tiny” Hogan rolls up. Next to the hulking Hogan, tackle-sized, shave-headed, flowing Viking beard, Kendall almost looks like a high school kid.
Recently, these two Harley-riding, vest-wearing members of the Veterans IV Veterans Motorcycle Association rallied up to Glendale. They were hanging out at a rose garden. It’s a healing thing.
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Having Difficult Conversations in Your Organization and Beyond – Free Webinar
November 14, 2019
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4582166726757819138.
Environmental Leadership Program Pacific Regional Fellowship
Immersive Leadership Development Experience
January 27-30, 2020
March 2-5, 2020
elpnet.org/pacific-regional-network.
Playground Safety Inspector Certification Course & Exam
Two days of intermediate level learning plus a 100-question exam for certification with NRPA:
March 10-12, 2020 in Long Beach, (Part of the CPRS Conference & Expo)
Register for Certified Playground Safety Inspector here.
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