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Biomass Projects Help Parks Departments Save Money, Environment
By
Emily Attwood,
May 2013
When budgets need cutting, park maintenance and landscaping often take the hit before more public-centered programming, a decision that can end up costing more in the long run.
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Parks Departments Regulate Private Fitness Classes
By
Emily Attwood,
April 2013
Santa Monica's Palisades Park is one of the city's most popular green spaces. Perhaps a little too popular. Stretching along the California coast, the park is an excellent place for a jog or leisurely stroll or just to relax and enjoy the ocean view. ...
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Smoking Bans Take Effect in Parks and Other Outdoor Areas
By
Emily Attwood,
June 2012
Aligning itself with policies already in place in New York City, New York state parks, beaches and playgrounds went smoke-free in April.
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ABC Attendees Mean Business
By
Andrew Cohen,
November 2011
Industry veterans who have been around long enough to remember the first incarnation of the Athletic Business Conference & Expo — at this point, “old-timers” may be the only appellation that fits — recall it more for its congenial atmosphere than any equipment or educational materials they might have seen displayed on the 62 tables arranged around the downtown Chicago Marriott Hotel “salon” ballroom.
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Columbus, Ohio, Seeks to Keep Teens Off the Streets
By
Emily Attwood,
October 2011
The opening day of the 2011 Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee had all the elements normally associated with state fairs — hot weather, carnival rides and games, and barns filled with cows.
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Parks Providers Respond to a Growing Interest in Community Gardening
By
Nicholas Brown,
June 2011
Yielding obvious benefits at relatively minimal costs, urban community gardening has had its champions for decades.
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Park District Uses GIS to Map Public Opinion
By
Nicholas Brown ,
May 2011
What started as a minor public relations effort has resulted in an innovative new master-planning tool for the largest urban regional park district in the United States.
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Rec Agencies Struggle With Makeshift Tent Cities
By
Nicholas Brown,
January 2011
Darin Krueger says he was brought up “like any North Dakota kid.” “I was taught that if people need help, you do what you can to try to take care of them,” says Krueger, the director of the Williston, N.D., parks and recreation department.
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Florida County Rethinks No-Trash-Cans-in-Parks Policy
By
Michael Popke,
December 2010
A Florida county rethinks its no-trash-cans-in-parks policy.
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Cable Access: Parks and Recreation Television
By
Nicholas Brown,
December 2010
Agencies are turning to television as a low-cost means to market their services.
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