On Aug. 5, 2014, voters in the City of Seattle approved Proposition 1, which created the Seattle Park District. Property taxes collected by the Seattle Park District will provide funding for City parks and recreation including maintaining parklands and facilities, operating community centers and recreation programs, and developing new… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Youth Athletics Unit held the first event of the Citywide Youth Basketball Championships on Sunday, March 15, at Rainier Community Center. These championship events are a culmination of the 10-week basketball program involving approximately 400 volunteer coaches and more than 4,000 youth ages 10-17. Mayor Ed… [ Keep reading ]
Volunteers are needed for the Cal Anderson Park 2015 Spring Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4! We’re looking for people to help with face painting, to hide candy, to supervise the park, to monitor children in the hunt area, to clean up after the event and to hand out prizes. Volunteers need to… [ Keep reading ]
The Kubota Garden Foundation will host its annual spring plant sale from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 2 at the Kubota Garden Nursery. There will be beautiful and high quality plants for sale at extremely competitive prices. The selection will include perennials, annuals, grasses and both deciduous… [ Keep reading ]
Doggy paddle, breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke. We think it’s important to master one or two of these when you live in a city nearly surrounded by water, so this year, we’re making our swimming pools more accessible. New in 2015, individuals that qualify for Seattle Parks and Recreation program scholarships or reduced fees… [ Keep reading ]
Robin Williams once said, “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’” In our fair city, spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Come out of hibernation, Seattleites.’” It’s getting lighter in the mornings! The sun doesn’t set at 4:30 p.m. anymore! There are leaves and FLOWERS on the trees! No… [ Keep reading ]
South Park and High Point Community Centers are looking for volunteer soccer coaches to start a brand new soccer league in their neighborhoods. Coaches will be teaching soccer skills to 5-7 and 8-10 year olds on either Monday or Wednesday afternoon/evenings. If there is enough interest, games will be on… [ Keep reading ]
On Saturday afternoons, kids at Magnolia Community Center aren’t playing with toys; they’re learning how to build them. This winter, Instructor Loren Kite is teaching his Kids’ Carpentry class in Seattle Parks and Recreation community centers for the first time. Kids’ Carpentry is a hands-on toy-building class designed to teach… [ Keep reading ]
Just ask the beavers at Golden Gardens. They’ll tell you. Or consult the barn owls in Magnuson Park. They know. But now it’s really official, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has just announced that Seattle is the sixth friendliest city in that nation for wildlife. To kick off the… [ Keep reading ]
Adopt a park! Every Tuesday, Kubota Garden hosts volunteer work parties. The breathtaking landscape of the garden is reason enough to attend, but we hear free sweets and caffeine are involved too. Work parties start at 9:30 a.m. at the Staff Maintenance Office (the brown building south of the parking… [ Keep reading ]
