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Web Exclusives

ParksandRecreation.org
We know our readers have a keen conception of what parks and recreation
mean to them, their agencies and their
communities. As we approach Park
and Recreation Month this July, we'd
like to engage that awareness in a fun
contest to choose the cover image for
July's issue of Parks & Recreation Magazine. Keep an eye on our Facebook page
at www.facebook.com/NationalRecre
ationandParkAssociation to check out
the options and vote for your favorite!
Looking for insightful commentary
about the stories you see in these pages
and the park and recreation industry
as a whole? Then look no further than
NRPA's Open Space blog at www.nrpa.
org/blog, which each week features
fresh content designed to inspire, educate and enlighten our members. Readers will want to check out Senior Editor
Danielle Taylor's recent blog entry about
Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Park in
Charlotte, North, Carolina, the site of
NRPA's 2014 Parks Build Community
(PBC) project. We're always interested in
using the blog to share exciting programs
and initiatives taking place at our member agencies across the country, so email
Lauren Hoffmann, NRPA's senior PR
and communications manager, at lhoff
mann@nrpa.org to contribute.
If you haven't already, make sure you
have a valid login for NRPA's websites,
including www.nrpa.org and www.
parksandrecreation.org. Archived issues
on the magazine site are now closed to
nonmembers, but if you're a member
and don't know how to log in, contact
NRPA's customer service team by calling 800.626.NRPA (6772), emailing
customerservice@nrpa.org, or clicking
the Live Help button on www.nrpa.org
or www.parksandrecreation.org.

Parks & Recreation

Check out
our digital
edition at
digital.parks
andrecreation
.org

Online registration is now open for the 2014 NRPA Congress, held October 14-
16 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Visit www.nrpa.org/Congress2014 to save your
spot and for event details, including program highlights, exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities, accommodations information and more. Congress is a wonderful opportunity to learn about new innovations and products in the park and
recreation industry, network with professional leaders, and accumulate continuing education credits with classes and lectures. Be sure to check the website often,
as we continue to add new information throughout the spring and summer.
Here at Parks & Recreation Magazine, we strive to provide our readers with stories that
touch their personal and professional lives. To that end, we're constantly searching for
ways to make the magazine more engaging and useful to our members. Regular readers will notice that this month we've made a slight change to the opening section of the
magazine - our collection of news and notes from around the industry previously
known as Front Page is now titled Community Center. We feel this new title better
reflects the intention of the section: to highlight remarkable projects, programming and
news from across the park and recreation industry. As is always the case, we welcome
your feedback on this change, as well as the articles you read each month. At the bottom of any article on www.parksandrecreation.org, you can enter your name, email
address and thoughts on what you've read. You can also email Senior Editor Danielle
Taylor at dtaylor@nrpa.org or Associate Editor Samantha Bartram at sbartram@
nrpa.org with any story ideas, questions or additional commentary. We want the
articles we publish to generate discussion among members and other advocates
of parks and recreation, so please take a moment to let us know what you think!

Stay in touch!
NRPA website: www.nrpa.org
Parks & Recreation website: www.parksandrecreation.org
Digital edition: http://digital.parksandrecreation.org
NRPA Connect: www.nrpaconnect.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/NationalRecreationandParkAssociation
Twitter: www.twitter.com/NRPA_news
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