Parks and Recreation

Dog Park Equipment at the Villas of Holly Broo

More and more residential complexes are adding Dog Park Equipment as an amenity for residents and there's one facility where it's now offered for Independent and Assisted Living customers.

The Villas of Holly Brook at Bradenton Cove in Illinois offer Independent, Assisted Living and Memory Care to its residents.

They feature several appealing amenities: studio apartments, individual climate control features, bistro café, salon services plus an array of social and recreational programs.

What makes The Villas even more unique is that the community is dog-friendly and provides a dog park for its residents with shaded seating for the dog owners. And for the dogs, a full ar

Grand Sand Dunes National Park - Photo from NP

Here is a collection of interesting national park facts to help you celebrate the National Park Service's 103rd birthday on Sun. Aug. 25.

That's the date when President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service Act. Since the creation of the NPS, this department now oversees more than 84 million acres of awesome natural areas and historic sites. Our parks are obviously very popular, in 2018, there were more than 318 million visitors. In 1904, there were 120,906.

The first national park established in the country is Yellowstone National Park which is located in three states - Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. That park was actually created in 1872 and in fact, is the oldest national park in the world.

Here's

Aluminum bleachers at the Boy Scout Camp La-No-Che in central Florida

Aluminum Bleachers in 3, 4 or 5-row configurations are the simple solution for spectator seating, no matter how unique the event.

Safe and organized seating is not just something to offer for high school football games.

People attending events of nearly all types are better served with a set or sets of aluminum bleachers as opposed to them bringing their own lawn chairs.

Take the Boy Scouts of America Central Florida Council.

They regularly hold camps and events at Camp La-No-Che in central Florida.

This splendid location covers 1,480 acres of primitive land in the center of the state just south of the beautiful Ocala National Forest.

The huge campground is heavily used by Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, JROTC

One of two sets of new aluminum bleachers at the Clyman Canners ballfield

Is it time to upgrade your spectator seating with new, safe aluminum bleachers?

While many towns across the country host baseball leagues that have been at play for decades, it does not mean seating for your fans can last that long as well.

Take the folks who run the baseball organization Clyman Canners of the Rock River League.

By the way, this baseball league in the small town of Clyman, WI, has the very unique honor of being the Second Oldest Adult Amateur League in the country.

Amazingly, the league was established more than a century ago in 1910. That's quite a distinction.

And that's in a town of 330 residents!

Indiana Dunes National Park. Credit: National Park Service, M. Woodbridge William

There is a new trend taking place in the National Park Service of renaming some protected areas that are designated as a "Monument" to the more prestigious title of "National Park."

This may seem like a minor case of semantics.

But the economic implications are major.

Two parks have recently received the "national park" designation.

That would be Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore which was changed to Indiana Dunes National Park and became our 61st national park.

The other is Gateway Arch National Park, where the famous arch in St. Louis was renamed from Jefferson