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Parks, green spaces protect your health
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There is more evidence that living near parks, woods, or other green spaces may improve your mental and physical health. Close proximity to green spaces was associated with less depression, anxiety, and other health problems in a newly published study. The relationship was strongest for children and people with low
incomes. The research is not the first to suggest that green spaces help keep people healthy, but it is the first to assess their impact on specific health conditions. MORE
Curing society's disconnect with nature could be as easy as a walk in the woods
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For the past four years, since Last Child in the Woods hit bookstores, there has been a greatly heightened concern over how society connects with nature. Across the United States there has been hew and cry from many corners that society is losing not just its comfort in the outdoors,
but also its concern for it. A new study indicates that while there should be reason for concern, perhaps the solution is as easy as a walk in the woods.
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Rising costs and media-savvy
consumers are dictating changes in the way recreation guides are produced
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The traditional printed recreation guide has some flaws. By its very nature, it is cumbersome to produce, text-heavy, mostly colorless, difficult to navigate, and expensive to print and mail. Despite these downsides, recreation guides
have one tremendous upside: they connect the community to recreation services.
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Oklahoma parks log more visitors
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The slowdown in the nation’s economy has resulted in more Oklahomans and those from surrounding states spending their vacations at the state’s parks. The increase in visitors, the highest in nearly a decade, provides an economic boost to neighboring cities and towns, the director of the state’s parks system said. More
NRPA inducts Ralph C. Wilson into Recreation and Park Hall of Fame
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The National Recreation and Park
Association (NRPA) inducted international parks and recreation advocate Ralph C. Wilson (Aug. 19, 1925 to May 20, 1985) into the Robert W. Crawford Recreation and Park Hall of Fame this morning during the NRPA Congress & Exposition Opening General Session at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. More
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12 replicable local initiatives to improve opportunities for play, steps for building public support, and recommendations for citizens and policymakers.
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Legislation to create more parks introduced in
House
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New Jersey
Congressman Albio Sires recently introduced legislation to create more parks and recreation space in our nation’s urban centers. H.R. 3734, the Urban Revitalization and Livable Communities Act would provide federal grants to states, local governments and community-based non-profit organizations to construct new parks and recreational facilities or rehabilitate existing ones in urban communities. Grant recipients must provide a thirty percent local match and submit a five-year action plan.
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New playground being developed for disabled in Michigan city
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The first step toward living a normal life for many
disabled children is learning to play, and then to play with able-bodied children. By doing so, the child builds up confidence and lets other children know they are not that different, despite the fact they may use canes or crutches, wear braces, are hearing impaired, blind or get about in a wheelchair. So it is exciting for many of those with disabilities in Waterford Township, Mich., to know another barrier-free playground for children is being developed in the county.
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Tony Hawk and Twitter bring skate tour to Missouri park
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Retired professional skateboarder Tony Hawk gave a skateboarding demonstration Saturday in Cosmopolitan Park in Columbia, Mo., as part of a tour announced on Twitter. Hawk, along with his Birdhouse skate team, is experimenting with an underground style of promotion. He gives hints to the locations of his demonstrations in the form of Tweets, which his followers must then decode.
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Grassroots efforts of Ohio city's residents make progress, hopefully break world record
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Neighborhood sales, parties, spooky trails and about 50 penny jars placed in various businesses around town are collecting pennies which, lined up end to end, are expected to stretch for 90 miles and will eventually wrap around the track at the North Ridgeville Middle School in North Ridgeville, Ohio. The fundraising schtick will benefit efforts to develop a skate park, a walking trail
and a dog park in the city’s center. More
Designing and maintaining trails for today's users
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"Unique" is the word many people use to describe the vision and results of an award-winning trail system proposed by the former mayor of Brookfield, Wis. Without a single dime of taxpayer money or arm-twisted-revenue to support the last six years of an estimated eight-year, 28-mile-long project, some might also call it ingenious. Thanks to forward-thinking and
smart negotiations with cell tower companies leasing land in the city's public parks, the leased revenue was directed to a fund dedicated to the future creation and maintenance of a trail system. As the money accrued to pay for various trails, the system has grown and continues to evolve.
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Endowment at Clemson University will support research on play
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A newly established endowment at Clemson University will fund graduate student research on children’s play, creativity on playgrounds and playground safety. The endowment is earmarked for graduate students studying children's play and creativity at Clemson, which focuses on the value of play and the deficit of play activities in modern society. The
safety of playground equipment also is scrutinized as more than 46,000 visits to emergency rooms by children under the age of 15 are recorded each year.
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If a swimming pool or
spa is within your
scope of responsibility, then know that if your facility does not have in place at this time anti-entrapment devices, such as ASME/ANSI A112.19.8-compliant drain covers, as per the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety ACT (VGBA), the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) can shut down your facility, impose fines up to $15 million, forfeit assets, and have you imprisoned for as long as 5 years. MORE |
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Parks providing places for people to play, work out
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The National Recreation and Park Association has a public campaign to
promote the numerous contributions that parks and recreation provide to a community. A poster for the campaign, titled "Parks and Recreation -- The Benefits are Endless… ," lists a lengthy number of positive ways that parks contribute to individuals and the community. Some of these include: feel great, lose weight, reduce stress, build strong bodies and live longer. One of the listed benefits states "provide safe places to play." More
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