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Lifeguard Games Meeting

IPRA LIFEGUARD GAMES
We are beginning to plan for this upcoming Lifeguard Games. We are having our first meeting on Thursday, March 20th at 1:00pm. Our meeting will be at the Itasca Park District; 350 W. Irving Park Rd.The date of the event is Saturday, August 2.  The Itasca Park District will be hosting the event [...]

FM Section Newsletter

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If you have not already received the IPRA Facility Management Section Newsletter via email or via snail-mail you can download the PDF file.  Newsletters will be available periodically and are currently scheduled to be available in July and September.  We encourage you to keep up on the Facility Management Section through our newsletter, Section Meetings, [...]

Aquatics Roundtable

Event Information: Wednesday, March 12, 2008  
10:30am-2:30pm 
Hanover Park Park District 
1919 Walnut Ave. Hanover Park 
$20 IPRA members/$30 non IPRA members
 (Lunch is included in registration fee) 
This is the perfect roundtable workshop for Swim Lesson Coordinators, Event Coordinators, Aquatic Supervisors/Managers, Recreation Superintendents and anyone else responsible for programming an aquatic facility. 
 
We will have guided discussions that will include topics [...]

Do you have public WiFi available in your Park District?

The Glencoe Park District is conisdering placing public WiFi in our Community Center reception area.  We are wondering if anyone else is currently doing this. If you are allowing the general public to utilize a WiFi connection I would like to know how it has worked out and if you are limiting or monitoring access in [...]

AEK/Harris Computer systems

Does anyone use AEK registration at their Park District.  If so how do feel the switch to AEK/Harris has gone and have you run into any difficulties.  I am researching them to find out if I will use them at an offsite location this summer.
Thank you in advance,
Julie Johnson
Clarendon Hills Park District
chpdjulie@aol.com or 630-323-2626

Summer Pool Concessions

I am currently looking for summer concession suppliers for our pool. I already have a contact for Gold Medal but was wondering if there were any other suppliers being used. Could you please provide their Company Name and Contact information along with how you would rate their service?
 
Thank you,
Ryan Jastrzab

Facility Management Section “Kick-Off Meeting” for 2008

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Please join us for our first Section Meeting of 2008 this Friday, February 8.  At this meeting we will be discussing the upcoming events for the section and for each of the divisions.  Lunch is provided for FREE and bring your thinking caps as we will be brainstorming ideas, topics, and speakers for Section Workshops [...]