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Ashland Parks and Recreation Department

Ashland Parks & Recreation &nb sp; &nb sp; Phone: (541) 552-2265

340 S Pioneer St &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; email: cottled@ashland.or.us

Ashland, OR 97520 &nb sp; &nb sp; www.AshlandParksandRec.org

April 10, 2008

May Calendar

All Parks – May Press

Ashland Community Bike Swap

Ashland Parks & Recreation Department, Rogue Valley Transportation District (RVTD) and the Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission present the 18th Annual Bike Swap.

If you are interested in selling your bicycle, and it is in working condition, bring it to the Grove on Friday, May 9, between 6pm and 8pm or Saturday May 10, between 7am and 10am.

If you are interested in buying a bicycle, the swap is open to the public from noon to 4pm on Saturday, May 10. The Ashland Community Bike Swap will have hundreds of bicycles available.

Bike Swap activities include a bicycle rodeo, raffle, Bike-It freestyle tricks and fun bicycle races. Call the Ashland Parks & Recreation Department at 541-488-5340 for more information or visit www.RVTD.org/bikeswap.

Admission price is $1 per person or $3 per family and includes one raffle ticket per person.

Volunteers are needed to help make this event a success! If you would like a “first look” at the bikes for sale and can donate two to four hours of time, please contact the Ashland Parks and Recreation Office at 541-488-5340, or stop by the Parks office, 340 S Pioneer St, Ashland in Lithia Park.

2008 Migratory Bird Day

Ashland Parks & Recreation Department, Rogue Valley Audubon Society and the Klamath Bird Observatory will celebrate Migratory Bird Day on Saturday, May 10, from 8 am - noon at the North Mountain Park Nature Center. The event will offer a variety of engaging outdoor learning activities for birders of all ages, abilities and sleep habits! Hourly guided walks will visit the mist netting and bird banding station to view migratory and resident birds up close and learn more about local conservation. ‘Bird-friendly’ shade-grown coffee will be served. Admire or sketch wild birds of prey from Wildlife Images. Plenty of fun activities will be offered for young bird enthusiasts.

This year’s theme is “Tropics to Tundra.” Migratory birds travel long distances between breeding and non-breeding sites throughout the Western Hemisphere. In 2008, Migratory Bird Day will explore the birds that make these fantastic journeys, the habitats on which they depend and the people who are important to the conservation of birds and their habitats along the way. For more information please visit www.RogueValleyBirdDay.net, or call the North Mountain Park Nature Center at 541.488.6606. The Nature Center is located at 620 N Mountain Avenue in Ashland.

Oak Knoll Golf Course, 3070 Hwy 66 in Ashland

541-482-4311, (coming soon. . . www.OakKnollGolf.org)

Come on out to Oak Knoll Golf Course for 9-holes of Night Golf on Friday, May 9, 8:00pm. Your $60 entry fee includes green fee, Great American Pizza, Caldera beer and prizes! This is a walking only event.
Ladies Twilight League will kick off on Wednesday, May 21 at 5:30pm. The league will regularly play on Wednesdays throughout the summer months.
The Ashland City Amateur will take place at Oak Knoll on Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, at 7:30pm. $100 per player includes green fees and on Saturday a BBQ lunch and prizes! The event is open to the first 64 players and all players must have a USGA Handicap.
Friday is kid’s day! Kids play free after 4pm with a paid adult green fee.
Wednesdays are ‘Dollar Days’
Senior Rates apply to those 55 & up.

Please call 541-482-4311 for more information.

Oak Knoll, Great Course. . . Good Times

Ashland Parks & Recreation,340 S Pioneer St in Lithia Park

541-488-5340, www.AshlandParksandRec.org

Registration for Ashland Parks & Recreation summer programs begins Monday, May 12 for online registration and Monday, May 19 for general registration. The Parks Department publishes three recreation guides per year; fall, winter/spring and summer. The guides are delivered to every Ashland and Talent household. Watch for your summer guide in the mail! If you do not receive yours please call the Parks office at 541-488-5340. The current guide includes programs for May through September 2008 and is full of activities for all ages and abilities, from sports and fitness to foreign language to nature classes! For more information visit www.AshlandParksandRec.org or register for a summer program online at http://ashlandparks.recware.com. Remember, online registration helps to reduce costs and it’s easy to do! If you need assistance, please call 541-488-5340, or stop by the Parks office in Lithia Park, 340 S Pioneer St in Ashland. “We’ll see you in the Park!”

Ashland Parks & Recreation – “Providing Recreational Opportunities, Preserving & Maintaining Public Lands”

Daniel Meyer Pool Opening in June

Ashland Parks & Recreation

541-488-5340, www.AshlandParksandRec.org

Registration for swim lessons at Daniel Meyer pool will begin Monday, May 12. The pool is located in Ashland’s Hunter Park at 1705 Homes Avenue, and will be open to the public from June 16 – September 1. For more information on the 2008 summer schedule, and all that the pool has to offer this summer, visit www.ashland.or.us/swim, call 541-488-5340 or stop by the Ashland Parks & Recreation office in Lithia Park, 340 S Pioneer St.

Garden Volunteers Needed

North Mountain Park Nature Center, 620 N Mountain Ave, Ashland

541-488-6606, www.NorthMountainPark.org

“Green thumbs” or beginning garden volunteers are always needed to help in the Demonstration Gardens any Wednesday morning in May and June, 10am—noon; and a little earlier during the warmer months of July and August, 9—11am. Or call 488-6606 to schedule other times. Tools, snacks and guidance provided. Monthly mini-workshops presented the 3rd Wednesdays each month by Jackson County Master Gardener Association.

Badminton/Pickle Ball

Ashland Parks & Recreation

Available for adults to participate in the sports of badminton and pickle ball. We are small groups looking to increase our numbers in both sports. For more information call Marty Burns 541-482-3349.

AGES 16 & up

DAYS Sunday (badminton) | Friday (pickle ball)

DATES Year-round

TIME 4—7pm (badminton) | 6—9pm (pickle ball)

PLACE Southern Oregon University,

&nb sp; McNeal Pavilion, small gym

COST No fee, just bring a badminton racquet or pickle ball paddle.

Coed Softball

Ashland Parks & Recreation,340 S Pioneer St in Lithia Park 541-488-5340, www.AshlandParksandRec.org

Let’s play ball! This league is designed for fun and exercise with no paid umpires or scorekeepers. Team registration is done through the Parks and Recreation Office only. Individuals looking for a team can call 541-488-5340.

Registration begins May 19

Dates League games begin Jun 22 and run through mid Aug

Days Sundays

Time Games are scheduled between 3:30pm and 8pm

Cost $100 per team

Nature Sketching & Journaling with Irene Brady

North Mountain Park Nature Center, 620 N Mountain Ave, Ashland

541-488-6606, www.NorthMountainPark.org

Author and illustrator Irene Brady, a life-long journal-keeper and right-brain drawing workshop presenter, will guide you through the mysteries of recording the wonders of nature, your garden or your nature-oriented vacation with observations, reflections and sketches. Tap into your artistic potential with stimulating sessions on right-brain drawing, watercolor pencil painting, guided exercises in creative writing, haiku and poetry and other techniques to brighten and intensify your journal pages. Emerge from the workshop with the strong beginnings of an illustrated journal and continue on your own, using techniques, tips, guidelines and creative prompts from the workbooks you’ll receive as part of the workshop.

AGES 12 & up

DAYS Saturday, Sunday & the following Saturday

DATES May 24, 25 & 31

TIME 9am—2:30pm

COST $95

PLACE The Grove, 1195 E Main St, Ashland

The Universal Medicine Wheel

North Mountain Park Nature Center, 620 N Mountain Ave, Ashland

541-488-6606, www.NorthMountainPark.org

Join Nancy Bloom for a 3-hour introductory workshop with teachings and experiential work, including time outside on the land, offering tools for living more deeply in accord with the natural world and with your own true nature. This meeting will serve as an introduction to a 9-week workshop series entitled: Spirit Quest, A Journey Around the Medicine Wheel. The workshop series includes 9 weekly meetings, the first on Thursday, May 29, coordinated through Ashland Parks & Recreation. Subsequent workshop dates in this 9-week series can be arranged through Nancy Bloom. For more information on this 9-week series email nancy@spiritinbloom.com or call 541-488-5795.

Instructor Nancy Bloom is a counselor, certified hypnotherapist and professional intuitive in private practice in Ashland. She has done this work for over 30 years and has also taught workshops, seminars and trainings in personal growth and the healing arts professionally for over 30 years in California, Hawaii and Oregon. She is also host and producer of Life Passages, the Soul's Journey a TV show on RVTV Channel 15, which airs Mondays at 9:30pm. She finds that nature and spirit are profound supports for her life, and she wishes to empower others to deepen that resource in their own lives. The course includes movement, sound, simple songs and chants, drumming and times in the natural world. Participants who register for the 9-week series will enter another direction on the wheel each week and let it teach and guide with its unique medicines for healing and transformation and communion with Spirit, Soul and Nature. Many participants have taken this course multiple times, as they say it is always fresh and different and ever empowering and enriching.

INTRODUCTORY CLASS. . .

AGES 16 & up

DAYS Thursday

DATES May 29

Workshop series must be registered and paid for through Nancy Bloom &nb sp;

TIME 9am—noon

COST $35 (for May 29 only)

PLACE Community Center,

&nb sp; 59 Winburn Way in Lithia Park, Ashland