Experience three days of transformative educational sessions, empowering keynote speakers and innovative experiences in a city that is experiencing its own transformation. Enjoy this unique event blending stories of community change, recreation, and public mission into an integrated educational experience.
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Standing the Heat will examine a range of contemporary adaptive leadership concepts and asks the question whether we are prepared to challenge conventional thinking. Join us on Feb. 5 as Jamie Sabbach speaks on enabling agencies to position themselves for long term health and effectiveness.
Certified Playground Safety Inspector Spring Program — Registration is open!
Certified Playground Safety Inspector course promotes children's right to play and promotes nationally the importance play has to a child's development.
The CPSI classroom course trains individuals to identify hazards on public playgrounds and playground equipment, and how to apply that knowledge and establish a playground safety program. This two-day course covers the material necessary to pass the Certified Playground Safety Inspector certification exam. Join us from March 3–5 at the Hilton Inn in Bothell. This event typically sells out, so register soon!
Kevin Witte accepted the City of Mountlake Terrace Recreation Supervisor position. His new area of focus will be athletics, youth and fitness. You can now contact him at kwitte@ci.mlt.wa.us or 425-640-3105.
Today the grizzlies of the Northwest exist mostly in legend. The few fleeting glimpses in the woods are so rare, some suspect there are no bears left in the jagged spine of the Cascade Mountains that splits Washington. That, however, might soon change.
Preservation of undeveloped space in Bothell is in doubt after voters rejected a bond measure last month. Bothell now is counting on lawmakers in Olympia and Washington, D.C., to allocate money to save the North Creek Forest.
In the past, burying streams created problems, including pollution, which would make its way to waterways. What's more, paving and piping often make flooding worse. In recent years many cities have been undoing the past century's drainage projects, uncovering or "daylighting" buried streams.