Be a good sport: NRPA partners to bring quality youth sports to towns across the United States.NRPA NRPA National Recreation and Park Association NRPA Natural Resources Protective Association (Staten Island, NY) NRPA Niagara Regional Police Association (Canada) NRPA National Rifle and Pistol Association and Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. are asking, why mess with mess with Verb Informal, chiefly US to interfere in, or become involved with, a dangerous person, thing, or situation: he had started messing with drugs success? Announced at Congress in Reno Reno (rē`nō), city (1990 pop. 133,850), seat of Washoe co., W Nev., on the Truckee River; inc. 1903. Tourism has been the major industry since gambling was legalized in Nevada in 1931. , Nev., the two entities will again team up to launch a new initiative intended to improve youth sports across the country. The new partnership will be called Good Sports, a national program that reaches out through grassroot efforts to enlist en·list v. en·list·ed, en·list·ing, en·lists v.tr. 1. To engage (persons or a person) for service in the armed forces. 2. To engage the support or cooperation of. v. local communities to apply for recognition to show that their town's youth programs are the best. More than 6,000 park and recreation agencies will receive activation activation /ac·ti·va·tion/ (ak?ti-va´shun) 1. the act or process of rendering active. 2. the transformation of a proenzyme into an active enzyme by the action of a kinase or another enzyme. 3. kits with positive messaging about youth sports targeted to parents, coaches and kids. Agencies will be asked to log on to NRPA's Web site and apply for the national competition. Once entered, the community will be judged on its ability to promote fair play, sportsmanship, skill development, parent involvement and positive values. Each agency will also be judged on consistency of policies and inclusiveness at the youth level. This is NRPA's second partnership with the magazine and hopes to build on the success of Sportstown USA, where communities in each state applied to be designated a Sportstown. After receiving 250 applicants from across the 50 states, and expanding visibility for parks and recreation through local events that encompassed more than 200,000 community spectators, nearly 900 local organizations and several hundred local and national celebrities, NRPA and Sports Illustrated still want to do more. "NRPA is once again privileged to partner with Sports Illustrated to enhance the quality of youth sports in America. Working with such a world class media organization has already provided extraordinary visibility for parks and recreation. It is simply beyond compare that this partnership is expanding to include another world class corporate partner, DODGE DODGE Department Of Defense Gravity Experiment , to launch the national initiative GOOD SPORTS. During 2005, communities nationwide will be able to join in this grassroots movement to rally parents, coaches and sport organizations around making sports a positive force for youth development and community pride." --Kathy Spangler Join the NRPA Sports & Health Network, a monthly e-newsletter, to receive timely information about the GOOD SPORTS initiative and all of NRPA's partnership programs. Visit www.nrpa.org and click on Join the Sports & Health Network under HOT TOPICS on the homepage. |
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