Archive for the ‘Parks and Land’ Category
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
All LNCI Members are invited to attend the MORPC (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission) September 11-13 Summit on Sustainability and the Environment.
Our own Jenny will be introducing Richard Louv, along with the Columbus School for Girls Kindergarten students singing Nature Needs Kids and Kids Need Nature!
MORPC organizers want to get ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
As some of you may know, The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is helping to advance the Leave No Child Inside cause by putting on a big program this summer. They will be distributing "passports" to public school children. The kids can get their passports stamped by participating in various ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
We have had an influx of new members!
We welcome:
Licking Park District
Contact: Rich Niccum, Operations Administrator, Licking Park District
PO Box 590 Granville, Ohio 43023 (740) 587-2535 office
www.lickingparkdistrict.com
The Licking park District provides a wide variety of outdoor/nature programming, many of which are geared towards families and youth.
We have added Licking Park District ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
We have a new organization joining the Leave No Child INSIDE Central Ohio Collaborative!
Alice Hohl made contact with Four Seasons City Farm, an organization that takes vacant urban lots and turns them into gardens that benefit the local neighborhood. A woman who works with the gardens, located on Columbus' East ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
This appeared today ... thank you John! Click here to view it in all its pdf glory on page 4. (pdf version of MetroParks ParkScope.)
From the Executive Director
John O'Meara
Leave no child inside
In the not so distant past kids tromped through the woods, played in parks, chased after butterflies
and fished ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
by Elayna Grody, Columbus Recreation and Parks
Leave No Child Inside - Urban Natural Areas Meeting
November 8, 2007
Activities that occurred since the Summit:
Katie Sanford, Action for Children, received a grant to develop nature packs for after school programs and parents. These packs will be full of information and activities to ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Convener: Heather Starck
Participants: Andrea Hedge, Christine Godward, Marc Behrendt, John O'Meara, Kelli Drummer, Val Mitrione, Alice Hohl, and about 20 other people!
Summary:
Create a collective message, logo/tagline
First step:
Market internally within your constituency and use this joint message
-Get together to pool resources to create PSAs, brochures, etc.
-Tap into green movement: "This ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Members:
Check out this post from Bill Resch of the New Albany School District. The district is doing some really great things, including mapping and cataloging its school grounds for habitats and ecosystems. Wouldn't it be great if every school did this?
Hello LNCI CO Collaborative,
Please list the New Albany Schools 80 ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
...And Creating "Connect-with-nature" gardens at schools and child care centers.
Participants: Amy Dutt, Noreen Warnock, Irene Lindelow, Brian Rutti, Lori Totman, Vicki Kohli, Colleen Sharkey, Matthew Minter, Manon Von Schoyck, Christa Hein, Sharon Tinianow, Sue Smith, Betsy Loeb.
SUMMARY:
1) There are school gardens in existence that allow kids unstructured play in nature:
- ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Hi Everyone,
We will be holding a follow up meeting to our discussions at the Summit regarding Safe, Accessible Neighborhood Natural Areas for kids in Urban setings on Thursday November 8th at 1:30 pm. We will meet in the conference room at 200 Greenlawn Ave. Here is a map showing the ...
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