The Surgeon General, Parks and Your Health
The Surgeon General recently released a call to action - Step it Up! - encouraging everyone to walk more. "Walking is one of the easiest and most affordable ways to build up physical activity in your life.” -U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy Dr. Murthy specifically calls on professionals and advocates from across sectors to come together to create safer, more supportive environments for people to walk. Included in this call were parks and recreation officials. I would

Parklets have come to Spokane
Today is PARKing Day - which started in 2005 as a grassroots effort to reclaim some cement and bring in a bit of green...even if only for a day. We've had a few organizations take this day on in Spokane, and we at the Parks Foundation were bound and determined to do something amazing this year - until we learned that we didn't need to! A new nonprofit, YES (You Express Studio) also decided that downtown needs some additional greenspace (shown by many studies to adi in creativ