Archive for March, 2009



Tribute: With a bulldozer, Ernest Brown helped build Jackson … - Kansas City Star

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 11:38 pm
Tribute: With a bulldozer, Ernest Brown helped build Jackson …
Kansas City Star, MO
For 35 years, Brown operated heavy equipment for Jackson County Parks and Recreation. He had a hand in constructing everything from the roads around Lake Jacomo to area baseball and soccer fields to Fort Osage and Missouri Town. …

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Huntington Proposes Dog Park - WSAZ-TV

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 11:16 pm
Huntington Proposes Dog Park
WSAZ-TV, WV
Dog parks are springing up all around our region and some folks in Huntington are barking up a plan to get their dogs a place of their own. It's all a way to provide a safe place for dogs to play and interact. Patty Jennings and her son, Chip, …
Canine lovers baying for dog park Huntington Herald Dispatch
Public Hears Huntington Dog Park Proposal WSAZ-TV
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Park district prez challenged for seat - Forest Park Review

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 11:06 pm
Park district prez challenged for seat
Forest Park Review, IL
By Josh Adams With 28 years of service behind him, Howard "Bud" Boy is the reigning patriarch of the park district in Forest Park, and he may not be done yet. Boy is the president of the district's board, and is one of three candidates running for a …
Parks to ask if Roos is for sale Forest Park Review
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Minneapolis Park Board told to back merger or lose money - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 9:59 pm
Minneapolis Park Board told to back merger or lose money
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
Minneapolis park officials will get the hard-line message today that if they don't get behind a push to merge pension funds, funding for parks could suffer. By STEVE BRANDT, Star Tribune Minneapolis park officials will get a diplomatically worded but …

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Taking Their Unemployed Status and Running With It, in a Race - New York Times

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 9:42 pm
Taking Their Unemployed Status and Running With It, in a Race
New York Times, United States
The parks department balked at the idea of having office equipment hoisted aloft (“dangerous,” said a spokeswoman) and then smashing to the ground (“which is essentially littering,” per the spokeswoman), so Mr. Goddard substituted “Office Phone …

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Armed wardens begin guarding Canada's national parks - Canada.com

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 8:15 pm
Armed wardens begin guarding Canada's national parks
Canada.com, Canada
By Robert Remington, Calgary HeraldMarch 31, 2009 8:14 PM CALGARY — After years of controversy, wardens newly trained in the use of handguns begin patrolling Canada's national parks Wednesday under a restructured regime that reduces the number of armed …
Changing duties for national park officials mean some will carry guns CBC.ca
Up to 100 park wardens to be armed this spring Globe and Mail
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Amy Poehler stars in NBC's 'Parks and Recreation' - Newsday

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 5:06 pm
Amy Poehler stars in NBC's 'Parks and Recreation'
Newsday, NY
Yet NBC's "Parks and Recreation," premiering Thursday at 8:30 pm, takes place in town hall in the fictional Pawnee, Ind., in its parks and recreation department, specifically. The show is from the producers of "The Office," with which it is paired, …

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Fellsmere youth recreation coordinator fired by e-mail; Little League in limbo (Vero Press Journal)

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 4:44 pm

Last week’s firing of the city’s youth recreation coordinator may now have the Fellsmere Little League in limbo as they scramble to qualify for all-star games.


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Fellsmere youth recreation coordinator’s firing leaves Little League in limbo (Vero Press Journal)

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 4:44 pm

Last week’s firing of the city’s youth recreation coordinator may now have the Fellsmere Little League in limbo as they scramble to qualify for all-star games.


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Double The Scholarships From Parks And Recreation Dept. (Indiana’s NewsCenter)

Tuesday 31 March 2009 @ 3:59 pm

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) - Officials with the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department announced plans to double their scholarships for summer programs.


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