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A Home For Health And Heritage
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A Home For Health And Heritage

Frogtown Community Center in St. Paul, Minn., located on the site of the former Scheffer Recreation Center, is a vibrant hub of cultural inclusivity and wellness-driven activity. While the 1970s center may have brought community together in the past, in the present it needed a ground-up overhaul to connect with the diversity of the current community.

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For The Record
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For The Record

The city of Grapevine Parks and Recreation Department in Texas maintains 23 trails throughout the park system, including hard and soft surfaces. This provides residents of all ages attractive, safe, accessible, and low- or no-cost places to cycle, walk, hike, jog, or skate.

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Making Itself Known
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Making Itself Known

However nostalgic, the grainy black and white photos of children frolicking in the spray of a fire hydrant on a sweltering summer day remind us that access to recreational water parks is not assured for many underprivileged and overlooked communities.

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A Focus For The Future
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A Focus For The Future

The crowd counted down “5-4-3-2-1,” and the fountain erupted with a colorful light display to celebrate the grand opening of the Sharon Prete Plaza in Round Rock,Texas. The plaza is named for the retired director

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A Lot Of Miles Left
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A Lot Of Miles Left

When the 22,600-square-foot Palm Bay Community Center (PBCC) opened in 1978 in Palm Bay, Fla., it was recognized as offering state-of-the-art amenities and putting the city’s parks and recreation facilities on the map.

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Rich With History

At the center of what was once Santa Monica's fabled Gold Coast, the Annenberg Community Beach House traces its roots to the 1920s when newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst built an opulent seaside

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Finding Purpose

Editor's Note: Parks & Rec Business magazine continues the 2004 series focusing on... Everything H20, from pool equipment, safety, staffing and programming to profiles and perspectives on the

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Winds Of Change

It's unusual for any facility to sell 12,600 annual passes. It's even more unusual when the community that bought those 12,600 passes numbers around 20,000.More than half of the residents of West

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