Great Lakes region. (Regional Reports).Kent State University's Student Recreation and Wellness Center earned the Outstanding Sports Facility Award by the National Intramural intramural /in·tra·mu·ral/ (-mu´r'l) within the wall of an organ. in·tra·mu·ral adj. Occurring or situated within the walls of a cavity or organ. and Recreation Services Association. 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 Member Paul Milton is the director of recreation services at the center, which won this honor because of its innovative construction design. For more information on the award, go to www.nirsa.org. The park district in Highland Park Highland Park. 1 City (1990 pop. 30,575), Lake co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago on Lake Michigan; inc. 1869. It is a retail business and medical center for the North Shore area. (Ill.) received two national awards for excellence in professional communications from APEX (Awards for Publication Excellence). To view the district's award-winning Web site, go to www. pdhp.org. The district's training manual, Vision Quest vision quest supernatural experience in which an individual interacts with a guardian spirit to obtain advice or protection. Of particular importance to indigenous North and South American peoples, these rituals varied from tribe to tribe. , designed by Lindsay Dudeck, also earned recognition in its category. The Centre of Elgin, which opened its doors in December, is the Midwest's largest municipally owned recreation facility. Measuring nearly 185,000 square feet, the facility features an expansive health/fitness center, three swimming pools, a climbing wall A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with grips for hands and feet, used for climbing. Some are brick or wooden constructions, but on most modern walls, the material used is a thick multiplex board with holes drilled into it. , racquetball racquetball, sport played indoors by two or four players, combining elements of court handball and such racket games as squash racquets. It is played on a standard handball court 40 ft (12.2 m) long, 20 ft (6. courts, a three-court field house and an eight-laps-to-the-mile track. Other features include a pre-school wing, senior center, dance/tap studios, banquet and meeting facilities, a teen center and the Sherman Hospital Sherman Hospital is is the one of largest networks of medical care facilities in the far Northwest Chicago suburbs. It has been one of two full service hospitals in Elgin, Illinois. Wellness Center. Although programming and public spaces at the Centre are open to the general public, use of the health/fitness center, aquatic area and racquetball courts will be by paid membership only. The Centre was constructed without resident tax dollars. The $35.4 million budget was supported by $15 million derived from riverboat riv·er·boat n. A boat suitable for use on a river. revenues, developer impact feeds, proceeds from land sales and existing bond proceeds. For more information, contact NRPA Member Lynn Robbins at 847-951-6120 or www.cityofelgin.org. The Illinois Conservation Foundation has awarded 32 grants totaling more than $75,000 for environmental enhancement, natural resources preservation and education programs. NRPA members that received grants in 2002 include the Vandalia Park District, Vandalia ($2,500 for a trail and stream enhancement for the Lincoln Loop in the Vandalia Heritage Trails, contact Gary Oldham at 618-285-1029); the Illinois Association of Park Districts, Springfield, ($5,000 to promote and expand the Eagle Eye Neighborhood Park Watch Program in northeastern Illinois, contact Ted Flickinger at 217-523-4554); and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is a cabinet-level department of the state government of Illinois. It is headquartered in the state capital of Springfield. Division of Education, Springfield, ($1,500 to provide materials for education activity stations used in formal orientation of citizens who assist in collecting and sorting species in scientific monitoring, contact Tom Clay Tom Clay (20 August 1929, New York, New York — 22 November 1995, Los Angeles, California) (born Thomas Clague) was an American radio personality and disc jockey. at 217-524-9505). "Nature centers, butterfly gardens, prairie restorations and other similar projects have all benefited from Illinois Conservation Foundation grants," says Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Brent Manning, who serves as chairman of the foundation. "We are proud of the variety of projects we have been able to fund the last few years. Many of them provide hands-on experiences in the outdoors for school children." Individual grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded, with a preference given to projects for which applicants provide matching funds. Up to $75,000 is available for projects this year. An application is available on the foundation's Web site (www.ilcf.org). Applications for funding are due Feb. 7. Great Lakes Service Center Walter Johnson, CPRP Regional Director 615 Cambridge Lane Hoffman Estates, IL 60195 Phone: 847-843-7529 Fax: 847-843-3058 aqnrpa@aol.com |
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