Virginia: Park Authority creates Top Ten resolutions.Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority The Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority is an association dedicated to providing people in Northern Virginia with access to parks and nature reserves and to protect Northern Virginia's rich heritage of woods, meadows, lakes and streams from the threat of suburban sprawl. recently created 10 New Year's resolutions A New Year's Resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or a habit, often a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as advantageous. The name comes from the fact that these commitments normally go into effect on New Year's Day and remain until the set to encourage residents to use the area parks. The Top Ten could be applied to any agency, and provides the community with ten ideas to help keep those resolutions that sometimes are broken after only a few weeks. Use these ideas in your own community: 1. The most common New Year's resolution is to lose unwanted pounds. A great way to manage your weight is to run, walk, skate or bike. Find a trail and get active while you enjoy nature. 2. A wonderful resolution is to spend more time with family. Try one of your community waterparks or spraygrounds and you'll find fun for the whole family. 3. Start a new hobby for the New Year. Why not take up golf?. Find an 18-hole course in the area and take advantage of lessons, full pro shop facilities, practice greens and driving ranges. Annual memberships also allow you to keep your resolution all year long. 4. If getting smarter is your goal in 2006, let your local parks teach you a history lesson! Visit historical sites, take a guided tour guided tour guide n → visite guidée; what time does the guided tour start? → la visite guidée commence à quelle heure? , explore somewhere new. 5. A great way to ring in the new year is by planning a party and vowing to celebrate special occasions in the coming year. Your recreation center may own or operate reception halls, meeting rooms, picnic shelters and facilities. 6. Many vow to have more fun and enjoy themselves more in the upcoming year. For real family fun, try playing a round of miniature golf at a neighborhood course. Challenging and fun courses could be just the thing you need to feel like a kid again. 7. Along with losing weight, another common resolution is to simply get more exercise. Visit an area pool and swim your way to a fit 2006! 8. Maybe you're headed back to nature in 2006 and resolve to appreciate the great outdoors. Visit a nature center and learn about your community's great natural resources. Or, if you prefer nature in bloom, stroll along blooming A condition with older CCD devices that causes distortion at the pixel level. It occurs when the electrical charge created exceeds the storage capacity of the device and spills over into adjacent pixels. Newer CCDs incorporate anti-blooming circuitry to drain the excess charge. See CCD. pathways at a local garden or arboretum arboretum: see botanical garden. arboretum Place where trees, shrubs, and sometimes herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. An arboretum may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden. . 9. How about resolving to plan a vacation in 2006? Why not try roughing it on a fun camping vacation? Find a campground where you can pitch a tent or drive in your RV. 10. If you're planning a nautical nau·ti·cal adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of ships, shipping, sailors, or navigation on a body of water. [From Latin nauticus, from Greek nautikos, from new year, chances are your community recreation department operates boat launches at many locations around the area. Or combine fitness with your wet and wild resolution and try kayaking Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking is differentiated from canoeing by the fact that a kayak has a closed cockpit and a canoe has an open cockpit. They also use a two bladed paddle. Another major difference is in the way the paddler sits in the boat. or canoeing. Melissa Lothrop, CPRP CPRP cardiopulmonary cerebroresuscitation. |
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