Monthly Archives: March 2009

We Need More Recreation Programming Products

At the conference I attended last week there was an Expo. The expo hall was filled with companies vying for our attention, commitments to buy and business cards. As I meandered through the aisles and aisles of vendors I was specifically looking for programming products. Unfortunately there were only a couple of vendors that offered…

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One of the Best Things About the Recreation Community is the People

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Today I was at the CPRS conference and as I saw people I knew I couldn’t help but smile. After a day of workshops and social gatherings I thought about how lucky I was to be in such a great industry. When I go to work I am juiced (on most days) about seeing my…

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Flashcards – A Rainy Day Activity

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Its been raining off and on here in Northern California so I decided to dig up some of my reference books and find some rainy day activities that I knew were good and have used in the past. Below is an excerpt from a book called Camp Program Ideas, edited and compiled by Janet Gibson,…

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Sign Language Program for Kids That Anyone Can Run

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The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend of mine, Susan, who is the director of an after school YMCA site. We were discussing programming, as we always do, and she mentioned that she started running a sign language program. I took a semester of sign language in college. I really…

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