From the editor.

With July being Recreation and Parks Month, it seems like a great time to ask park and recreation professionals and supporters to speak up. While working on the magazine as a team for more than a year now, the staff has occasionally received letters of encouragement for improvements we've made, and letters of displeasure for some things we may not have done so well.

What's important is that we are hearing from our readers, which shows us that you care about this publication. We are working on creating a new Letters to the Editor section for our September issue, but need letters from you--our readers--about issues from the field, articles you've seen and liked, topics you want covered and anything else you want to share with us.

This is NRPA's member publication, so we'd like input from its members. If you don't believe we're listening, just start flipping through the pages of this issue--we've provided readers information about how to organize a special event, how to handle animal safety in dogparks and more inclusion ideas (this one is on how to create a special needs cheerleading squad). These are all topics members said they wanted to read about from the readership survey we conducted last year.

So next time you see something in the magazine that you really enjoy, or even something that you disagree with--write to us. We promise ... we're listening.