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Playground Best Practices

The much-debated (and sometimes maligned) term Тbest practicesУ refers, at least in my mind, to those practices that have produced outstanding results for folks I consider to be excellent playground p

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Rain Harvest

There is nothing new under the sun, as the old adage goes. There is also nothing new under the rain. Rain is a free source of nearly pure water. Catching or harvesting rain is an ancient technology

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S.O.S.

In a previous article I joked about how governments love to come up with catchy acronyms to help identify and market their latest, best practice or new committee. Well, IХve got another one for you--S

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Product Review

Products & Literature Visit our Web site at www.parksandrecbusiness.com and follow the Free Product Info link. Or, call the company directly and, remember, please let the advertiser know you saw

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Targeting Recreation

Managers familiar with marksmanship and hunting as recreational or competitive activities are acutely aware that patterns (groupings) created on the target by bullets or buckshot tell a lot about the

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Women Should ТDivot A TryУ

My first golf experience didnХt reveal an undiscovered raw talent just waiting for a bit of polish on the way to the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour. Instead, I ripped up chunk after

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Aquatics Bryan Buchko Aquatics Bryan Buchko

Make a Splash!

Even the best aquatic programs need an occasional makeover. Typical makeover symptoms include waning participation levels, lack of staff enthusiasm and/or customer complaints. If youХre fighting the p

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Riparian Zones In Danger!

When Mark Twain ducked school to spend his lazy afternoons on a Mississippi riverbank, he may have thought his surroundings eternal. In the 1840s, how could anyone have dreamed otherwise, gazing

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Online Training

In this age of Google, YouTube and the resulting need for instant everything--information, videos, products, services and so on--those of us here at the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS)

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Reasonable Man

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."--Leo Tolstoy I happen to know an unreasonable man. I remember one too, myself. Neither was

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