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Parks & Recreation Department July 2022 – June 2023 Town Report

Our Parks & Recreation staff are as follows: Recreation Director – Debbie Tefft Recreation Assistant Director – Amy Paul Administrative Assistant – Dawn Lundeen

We want to thank all of our volunteers who make our major programs possible! We appreciate everything you do to make our programs successful and positive for everyone involved. SUMMER: Our summer recreation program is a seven-week program for children going into Kindergarten through tenth grade. The program includes trips to Splash Town, Kiwanis Beach, local state parks, and Spring Point. We also offer many theme days with scavenger hunts, survivor activities, and a treasure hunt. Parents may begin making early payments for the summer program at any time to avoid having to come up with the entire sum at one time. Please call the Recreation Office at 929-5142 to set up a payment plan. We offer a limited Extended Rec program after our seven-week program ends to provide a place to be for one of the weeks before school starts. FALL & AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: In the Fall, we offer a soccer League for pee wees (3 & 4 year olds), Kindergarten, 1 st – 2 nd , 3 rd & 4 th , and 5 th – 8 th . We usually practice during the week and have games on Saturdays. As the school year begins, we offer after school activities. These programs include drawing, crafts, oil painting, indoor soccer, track and field, and floor hockey. Amy Paul directs our before and after care programs. She has a staff that helps implement these programs. As part of the aftercare program, for every mile the children walked, a food product is donated to the Hollis Food Pantry. Each child has an adult sponsor who donates the food for each mile walked. We have a party for the sponsors and the children at the end of the year. Each year we donate over 4,000 cans or boxes of food! The children are very proud of their community service! We are always looking for people who are willing to be a sponsor. Let us know if you are interested. Thank you to all of our sponsors. We organize a Fall Foliage trip each year, and a trip to Gardens Aglow. If anyone has any ideas of where we might go in the future, please let us know. We have a Halloween party in the Hollis School gym with games and a costume contest for a minimal fee. We also hold an event at the Sports Complex with ghostly lights along the walking path and a bonfire and smores and a Haunted Mile walk. There was also some pumpkin carving. Fun is had by all! WINTER: The Recreation Department offers two leagues for girls’ Basketball. There is a 3 rd -4 th grade League, and a 5th & 6th grade league. We also have a Sunday league for girls

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