Park Pals 2023
***Note: If you're having trouble finding our Park Pals, just look for the two volunteers in bright green shirts! We do not have the GFPS Food Truck at every location, but we promise we're there!...
***Note: If you're having trouble finding our Park Pals, just look for the two volunteers in bright green shirts! We do not have the GFPS Food Truck at every location, but we promise we're there!...
Help mentor and feed children this summer by serving with Get Fit Great Falls. Get Fit Great Falls promotes the benefits of healthy lifestyles to the citizens of Great Falls and Cascade County through a unified community effort that encourages cultural and systemic change. The Summer Associates, also known as Park Pals, will coordinate with the local school district’s food truck, which brings meals to hungry kids during the summer, and the Bookmobile, which brings books to those same children at similar locations. While being served lunch, children will be engaged physically and mentally by the Park Pals through activities designed to enrich them. In doing so the Park Pals will help end the educational backslide many disadvantaged children undergo during the summer months. Apply here! For...
***Note: If you're having trouble finding our Park Pals, just look for the two volunteers in bright green shirts! We do not have the GFPS Food Truck at every location, but we promise we're there!...
Many people who grew up in Great Falls will remember the “park ladies” or “park grandmas.” The City Park & Recreation Department ended the program more than a decade ago because of budget cuts. Get Fit hopes to give a new generation of children those same fond memories. Park pals are organizing crafts and science projects and physical activities for an hour every weekday at three Great Falls city parks. “Great Falls has an amazing resource in our parks,” said Get Fit Great Falls President Kim Skornogoski. “Our goal with the summer Park Pals program was to get kids out of their homes, away from a screen and develop a love for the outdoors and active play.” According to the 2014 County Health Rankings, 72 percent of people...
Our Park Pals program is bringing free activities to 5 parks around great falls every day of the week! We hope this program encourages kids to get away from the screens and get outside and play. Kids can participate in activities for science, art, and physical exercise. Park Pals Schedule: Gibson Park, 400 Park Drive — 9:45-10:30 a.m. (free food follows) Verde Park, 1700 Upper River Road — 10:45-11:30 a.m. Rhodes Park, 800 Central Avenue West — 12:15-1 p.m. (free food at noon) Lion’s Park, 2700 9th Avenue South. — 1:15– 2p.m. (free lunch at 12:40) Pinski Park, 4600 5th Avenue South — 2:15-3 p.m. Prizes are also handed out. Kids receive bigger prizes the more often they attend. The Park Pals program runs until August 12. This program would not be possible without grants from the Benefis...
Many people who grew up in Great Falls will remember the “park ladies” or “park grandmas.” The City Park & Recreation Department ended the program more than a decade ago because of budget cuts. Get Fit hopes to give a new generation of children those same fond memories. Starting Monday, park pals will organize crafts and science projects and physical activities for an hour every weekday at four Great Falls city parks. “Great Falls has an amazing resource in our parks,” said Get Fit Great Falls President Kim Skornogoski. “Our goal with the summer Park Pals program was to get kids out of their homes, away from a screen and develop a love for the outdoors and active play.” On Wednesday, June 14th, the public is invited to...