Southeast region. (Regional Reports).

Henry Diamond, chair of the Americans for Our Heritage and Recreation Board, and Michael Wilson, chief of the National Park Service's Recreation Programs Division, were guest speakers at the recent Tennessee River Park rededication. The Tennessee River Park encompasses a 22-mile river corridor linking the city's downtown business district with suburban parks and the north shore community of the Tennessee River via the Walnut Street Bridge, the country's longest pedestrian bridge. The park is one of 10 in the country that was has received the distinction of a 21st Century American Heritage Park out of 38,000 that have received assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Funds program since its inception in 1965. Other parks in the Southeast region that were recognized are the Watts Branch Park in Washington, D.C., Wade Mountain Preserve in Huntsville, Ala., Patterson Park in Baltimore, Md., and the Wenwood Soccer Complex, in Greenville, S.C.

Douglas, Ga., kicked off its Hearts N' Parks program with a health fair and sports events. Catch games and healthy snacks were featured. The Parks and Recreation Department received a grant from the Department of Human Resources-Health Promotion Section to develop Unity Park and Health and Wellness Project.

When is a park a political statement? That's what's being argued in Little Rock, Ark., where the William J. Clinton Presidential Library is being developed. "It has divided the community, but it's a huge gift to the city," says NRPA Trustee and Little Rock Parks Director Bryan Day. City officials consider the project a catalyst to spur downtown development, yet locals dispute how much the library will help a city in which the key visitor destination has been Central High School, a National Historic Site designated by the National Park Service. (The school was the setting for a desegregation milestone in 1957 when members of the 101st Airborne Division joined federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen to enforce the court-ordered admission of nine black children.) The library will sit along the Arkansas River surrounded by gardens, a small chapel and burial facilities.

National Senior Health and Fitness Day was celebrated in May at the Armed Forces Retirement Home-Washington, D.C., formally known as the U.S. Soldiers' & Airmen's Home. Other community senior centers joined in the festivities to celebrate and promote senior fitness, wellness and healthy lifestyles. More than 140 residents took part in activities including fishing, bowling, shooting darts, walking on the indoor or outdoor trails, golf and working out in the fitness center. Golf clinics were conducted by LPGA professional Julietta Stack, whose focus was to encourage residents to use the putting green or the driving range without feeling the need to play nine holes of golf.

NRPA's management team was joined this July by Scott Wennermark as the association's membership director. He has worked for several Fortune 500 companies and owned and operated Wennermarketing, a consultative marketing company that specialized in taking organizations to the next level. He brings valuable industry experience, having served as a recreation manager for Resort Recreation and Tennis Management and marketing director for 26 associations at Membership Services, Inc. Wennermark looks forward to using his extensive background to expand the NRPA membership. He is active in his church, loves the outdoors and has been married to his wife, Vickie, for almost three years. The couple had their first child in August.