Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 10/12/1995

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To whom it may concern: ! am submitting my application to serve on the Park and Recreation commission. ! have been a citizen of Ramsey for eighteen years. Our family have been involved in Boy Scouts, R.Y.A,A. sports, 4-H program, and the Becky We!se Bike Rodeo. ! was happy to serve as the vice-chair of the Ramsey citizen advisory board to the Ramsey Community Education Department. It was during this time that the neighborhood watch program was started, the first Ramsey Environmenta! Expo., and environmental programming at Ramsey Elementary School. It was for these efforts that ! was proud to accept the first Ramsey citizen volunteer of the year award. I am presently involved with providing multi-cultural programming in metro area schools. This has given me the opportunity to work with representatives of the different ethnic groups that contribute to Minnesota, recognizing the challenges facing our youth as they learn to live together in mutual respect. I also work with Tree Trust in their Time for Trees program. This program works with Minnesota elementary students providing environmental information on animals and habitat. By request, I wrote the information into a childrens' book "Bluebirds In My Yard" which has just been published bythe Minnesota Bluebird Recovery Program, Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis. For the last three years I have been involved in different Minnesota soccer organizations, in the administration, tournaments, training camps (coaches and players), and the building of fields. Working with Penman Soccer Systems we were able to implement a program that ! am very proud of is the "Little Kickers" this program is designed for pre-school children teaching them skills in a fun non-competitive environment. The program uses older players as coaches and involves the whole family including Grandparentsl