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Every July, the National Recreation and Park Association sponsors National Parks and Recreation Month to highlight the benefits access to quality parks, recreation and cultural arts programming brings to the public. Each year’s celebration includes a unique theme. For 2021, we’re highlighting Our Park and Recreation Story. The services that parks and recreation professionals provide...

Every July, the National Recreation and Park Association sponsors National Park and Recreation Month to highlight the benefits access to quality parks, recreation and cultural arts programming brings to the public. Each year’s celebration includes a unique theme. For 2023, we’re highlighting ‘Where Community Grows.’ This year’s theme celebrates the many ways that park and...

Every July, the National Recreation and Park Association sponsors National Park and Recreation Month to highlight the benefits access to quality parks, recreation and cultural arts programming brings to the public. Each year’s celebration includes a unique theme. For 2022, we’re highlighting ‘We Rise Up for Parks and Recreation.’ This theme celebrates all the professionals...

Today, we’re highlighting EcoFest in celebration of National Park & Recreation Month. Every July, the National Park & Recreation Association sponsors National Park & Recreation Month to highlight the benefits access to quality parks, recreation and cultural arts programming brings to the public. The theme for 2023 is ‘Where Community Grows,’ and few events exemplify...

Our final staff feature for National Park & Recreation Month spotlights Joy Becker, who works at the Kettering Recreation Complex. She was nominated by KRC facility manager, Chris George, who said: "Joy has been here for 29 years helping us serve our patrons. Over the last few weeks before Joy came back, we would get...

Today's National Park & Recreation Month featured staff member is Parks Service Worker Nick Zaccaria. Nick was nominated for this feature by Parks Superintendent, Gary Schussler, who said, "Nick is a newer employee and one who switched careers when he moved to Ohio to the park industry about two and a half years ago. He...

We are celebrating National Park and Recreation Month here in Kettering! Kettering resident Jonelle Carroll is an active participant in the wide range of programs offered through our city’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts department. Here's what Jonelle had to say about PRCA: “I believe it is one of the many things that makes Kettering...