What: Funding for Winter Community Events in City of Seattle parks. Amount: up to $1,000. Application Deadline: by 5 p.m. Friday, November 18, 2016. Events must be completed by Tuesday, December 27, 2016. Contact: Randy.Wiger@seattle.gov or 206-684-0775. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY Seattle Parks and Recreation is pleased to announce a funding opportunity… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Parks and Recreation invites the community to provide input on design options for the new park in the Greenwood/Phinney neighborhood. Join Seattle Parks and Recreation’s planner and Cascade Design Collaborative’s designers at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N in room 7, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on… [ Keep reading ]
Building strong communities is one of our major priorities at Seattle Parks and Recreation. Our 26 community centers help us achieve this goal by serving as the living rooms of our neighborhoods, a place to gather and create connections. Recently, the Delridge Community Center went above and beyond in showing… [ Keep reading ]
More than 350 third-grade students participated in field trips to Camp Long in September, where they experienced the magic of Camp Long’s hands-on environmental-learning programs through educational forest hikes, a restoration project and rock climbing classes on an outdoor rock wall. An estimated 80% of the students who participated in… [ Keep reading ]
Basketball season is just around the corner, and at Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) that means hundreds of Seattle youth will be coming in to the community centers to sign up for teams. It also means that we will need volunteer coaches for those teams. If you’re 18 or older,… [ Keep reading ]
The Seattle Board of Park Commissioners will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 27 at the Seattle Parks and Recreation Administration Building, 100 Dexter Avenue North. The meeting agenda includes: Superintendent’s Report Seattle Asian Art Museum Expansion Presented by Michael Shiosaki, Seattle Parks and Recreation Homelessness in… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Parks and Recreation invites the community to provide feedback on the schematic design for the addition to A.B. Ernst Park. Please join us on Monday, October 24, 2016 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Doric Temple #92, 619 N. 36th St. prior to the Fremont Neighborhood Council meeting… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle Parks Foundation and the Knudsen family invite the community to the celebration for Julia Lee’s Park, a new City park, on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016 from noon to 1 p.m. The event will feature music, light refreshments and a program to begin at 12:30 p.m. … [ Keep reading ]
Many Seattle Parks and Recreation facilities will be closed Friday, Nov. 11, in observance of Veterans Day. These facilities and services are CLOSED: Community centers Teen life centers Environmental learning centers Indoor swimming pools Green Lake Small Craft Center Mount Baker Rowing and Sailing Center These facilities are OPEN on… [ Keep reading ]
Southwest Pool, 2901 SW Thistle St., will be closed from Oct. 24 through Nov.13 for preventive maintenance. The pool will re-open on Monday, November 14. The closure is needed for preventive maintenance to rebuild pumps, and to check boilers and critical systems. The closure also provides the opportunity for repairs… [ Keep reading ]
