Page 12 - Southern Exposure - January '21

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Make Fitness A Priority

By County Commissioner Maria Marino
One of the highest • Infrastructure Sales Surtax dollars funded a recent to enjoy at home, featuring yoga, animal encounters,
priorities for our community renovation of Juno Park’s playground on Ellison Wilson Road. workouts, DIY activities and more. Check out all the
in my view is to expand • Small groups of volunteers are getting outdoors to videos on PBC Parks TV (youtube.com).
and enhance our parks help clean our county public park beaches with an eye As an athlete since my youth and a professional golfer,
and recreation systems toward eliminating discarded plastics that wash ashore, I know first-hand how physical activity enriches our
for the health and well- contributing to a healthy environment while enhancing health, our quality of life and stimulates learning, and I
being of our children and their own physical fitness. Friends of Jupiter Beach has look forward to developing additional programs to help
families. This has become regularly scheduled small group cleanups for youth, our children, families and seniors stay active.
even more critical given family and individual participation. You can obtain more Please contact me with your ideas and let me know how
the gravitation to remote information at https://friendsofjupiterbeach.org/. I can assist you. You can reach me at (561) 355-2201 or
learning and working • County Parks’ staff produced several videos for you by email at mmarino@pbcgov.org.
over the past year. Getting
outdoors and being active is extremely important for
mental and physical health, and research has shown that Twilight Yoga at the Light
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students perform better scholastically when their days
include time for recreation. Lighthouse Sunset Tour
Recent studies performed by UNICEF, the British Jan. 6, 13, 27
Journal of Sports Medicine, and sporting marketing January VIRTUAL Lighthouse Story Time
surveys have revealed some startling statistics: Jan. 12
• The United States ranks last – 38th out of 38 rich Events
countries in the physical health of our children, and 32nd Lighthouse Moonrise Tour
out of 38 countries in mental health and well-being Jan 28
• Children in the United States ranked 47th out of 50
countries in fitness
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• Sixty-two percent of all children in America cannot Limited Tickets – Jan. 16
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• Inactivity leading to major physical and mental health Purchase Online
issues is dramatically higher in low-income families
We can help change these statistics for the better by
getting the word out about Palm Beach County’s award-
winning Parks and Recreation Department facilities and jupiterlighthouse.org 561-747-8380
programs. The county operates 110 parks and recreation 500 Captain Armour’s Way, Jupiter
facilities, including athletic facilities, campsites, trails Discover the Palm Beaches Florida
and beaches, as well as two water parks. These parks
include more than 8,000 acres of land for residents and
visitors to explore, offering more than 50 miles of trails.
The county expands its reach in offering programs
accessible to all residents through public/private
partnerships with nearly 500 teams, leagues, service
clubs, agencies, homeowner associations, neighborhood
groups, schools, companies and nonprofit organizations.
Whether you are interested in having your child play in
a league sport, enroll in a summer camp, or just increase
their time outdoors, there is a wide array of options in
our community. GetLucky
Here are just a few of the exciting happenings in Palm
Beach County parks in District 1:
• The Gardens North County District Park is meeting in Love
the need for additional multipurpose fields for soccer
and other field sports. A partnership of the City of Palm
Beach Gardens with Palm Beach County brought this to
fruition. Phase 2 of the project will include a state-of-
the-art indoor recreation facility and will be constructed
through a public/private partnership between the city, the
county and a not-for-profit foundation.
• Limestone Creek Park, one of our oldest neighborhood
parks, just received a basketball court expansion with new
backboards. Resident input will help finalize plans for
native landscaping.
• West Jupiter Recreation Center plans to host JTAA
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winter with additional COVID-19 protocols in place.
• North County Aquatic Complex has worked closely
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