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CPRS
Register now for this 4-hour training program sure to assist in many ways with every-day playground maintenance. The training will help you advance your knowledge and awareness of maintenance as well as risk including inspections, information about the differing organizations who create the standards, the entities who influence standard of care for playgrounds and the risk associated with that standard of care.
Registration form here — don't delay we will fill this course!
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Introducing the first of its kind - stainless steel kayak/surfboard/paddle board rack. Model 1010 SMSS, comes standard with a metered hose bib - perfect for rinsing before storing! MORE
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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.
Director of Regional Parks, San Bernardino, California — Click here for details.
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Sonoma Index-Tribune
"Core recreational services." Those three words were music to the ears of four local organizations that will likely benefit from a nonprofit-funding change of heart by the Sonoma City Council. The Council at its recentl meeting collectively voiced its support for scaling back a year-old "community fund grant" experiment that doled out small chunks of cash to many nonprofits in favor of greater and more dedicated funding toward a few organizations that deliver core services typically administered by a city's parks and recreation department.
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Playground Professionals
For the third year in a row, the National Recreation and Park Association is collaborating with The Walt Disney Company, including Disney Citizenship, Disney|ABC Television Group and ESPN, to help fund local park improvement projects in 16 U.S. cities through the national Meet Me at the Park campaign. During Earth Month in April, people can vote for 1 of 3 projects in 15 select cities to receive $20,000 in grant funding.
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PHIT America
The ancient Greeks had it right when it came to the importance of a sound mind and a sound body. And, recent research conducted around the world confirms it. Many recent studies in North America, Europe and Australia confirm that while exercise is truly great for the body, it is extremely beneficial for the mind, too.
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By Judith Villarreal
 From after-school sports to your child's daycare playground, artificial grass has quickly become the preferred material surface for schools, sports fields and recreational parks because it is low-maintenance and cost-efficient. While there may be huge monetary savings to be found in using artificial turf over real grass, one major component used to create the fields and playgrounds has some worried about the health hazards for children who spend a great deal of time on the playing surface.
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Herald Tribune
Florida's North Port City Commission decided recently to seek a more versatile option than a 50-meter competition swimming pool for an aquatic center at Butler Park. Instead, the board unanimously voted to ask consultant Kimley-Horn and Associates to design an aquatic center similar to one built in Rogers, Arkansas, that features a 25-yard pool that would be suitable for most high school and college swim meets.
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By Paul Thornton
 Defining moments are important situations that test a leader's commitment to his or her core beliefs and values. Author Robert Kiyosaki said that in these critical moments, "We become heroes or cowards; truth-tellers or liars; we go forward or backward." These challenging situations require you to take a stand on difficult and sometimes controversial issues. What you do or don't do in these critical moments reveals a lot about your character and credibility.
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Great Urban Parks Campaign
Managing stormwater is a major challenge for cities across the country. NRPA created the Great Urban Parks Campaign to improve environmental and social outcomes in underserved communities through promoting and advancing green infrastructure stormwater management projects within parks.
Click here for details.
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Webinar — Parks & Transportation: Activating Space Under Roads and Bridges
Demand for more park space has driven city planners, designers, park professionals and other public space stakeholders to get creative with existing urban infrastructure. Projects like the High Line in New York City and Klyde Warren Park in Dallas have shown that it's possible to transform elevated rail lines and wide urban freeways into dynamic parks, and now the spaces beneath them are getting a second look.
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CPSI Training has space in Lakewood, California
Register now — the study materials are ready for distribution
April 18-20, 2017
Lakewood Centre (City of Lakewood)
Los Angeles, California
Want to read more about the Certified Playground Safety Inspector? Click here.
ICMA 2017 Coaching Program — complimentary webinars for CPRS Professionals
Please visit the ICMA Coaching program to develop your skill set!
http://www.cprs.org/p/cm/ld/fid=348.
Advance registration is required for each 90-minute webinar. Simply go to http://icma.org/coachingwebinars to register or access the digital archives.
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