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Articles in Oct, 2004 issue of Parks & Recreation

• Correction
• Lighting
• Ribbon-cutting on Aspen interpretive trail
• A "label" of love
• Respecting religious traditions in recreational programming: understanding the religions in your community can help you plan accordingly
  by Lee J. deLisle
• Illinois: dogs celebrate with Woofstock
• Are you a gold medal contender?
• Child-size picnic table
• Willow water hole park and traits ground-breaking
• GIS: a tool to locate new park and recreation services: new technology can help park and recreation managers learn more about their park users
  by Bob Lee
• Ready … aim … paintball! The city of Palm Bay turned a community paintballing problem into a major park money-maker
  by Steve Riser
• Enter the kudos competition
• Fitness equipment
• Extreme sports have national appeal
• Texas: children with disabilities make great strides
• North Carolina: Environmental Park wins design award
• Cold weather apparel
• Pool liners
• Tennis championships brings players to public parks
  by Marcia Bach
• Diversity scholarship recipients
• Student Branch awards the cream of the crop
  by Kate Schneider
• Illuminated kiosks
• Team benches
• Small town has big dreams for its parks
• Bright lights for any city: illuminating your indoor lighting problems could save your community money
• Restroom accessories
• Skatepark module
• Fold-away bench
• Looking back to see what's ahead: this year has brought many accomplishments for NRPA
  by David Lose
• Falling temperatures require more cooling down periods
• New aquatic council members dive in
• Lamp posts
• Water play
• Calendar of events
• Grassroots activism returns farm to ancestral owners: citizen involvement can help save parks from development
• Desert Oasis saved from commercial development
• Tough terrain: the conflicts associated with multi-use trails
  by Richard J. Dolesh
• Fifty states, thousands of possibilities
  by Jennifer Hoyer
• Recycling bins
• Water misters
• From the editor
  by Rachel Roberts
• Breaking records at Hershey
  by Jeannine Ohler
• Maintenance mishaps: installing a spray playground, spraypad or spraypark could bring you more maintenance headaches
  by Maya Avrasin
• Recreation in Rockford: Illinois town may be last Sportstown, but definitely not least
• Fencing charisma: Olympic bronze medalist Peter Westbrook is shaping the future of fencing
• Free-riding on public lands poses risks
• Drinking fountains
• 2004 presidential candidates talk parks: George W. Bush and John Kerry answer tough questions about what they'll do for parks and recreation
• NRPA Annual Fund 2004: donors through Sept. 21, 2004
• Fighting for fitness: how park and recreation departments are battling with private fitness facilities for the right to offer workout rooms in their recreation centers
  by Dixon Tam
• NPSI protects your playgrounds
  by Curtis Stoddard
• Park benches
• Digital eye focuses on wildlife
• New book on Parks and Property Values
• Hal Sutton, member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team teed up a baseball and used a wedge to "chip" out the first pitch at the L.A. Dodgers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game on Aug. 3
• Schools become year-round community centers