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Exceptional Choices
News for Living, Working and Playing in Deerfield Township
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National Great Outdoors Month is a celebration of the wildlife, parks, and natural beauty of our area.
We encourage people to get out and explore our parks and participate in the various programs planned.
Check out the programs below for family friendly outdoor activities in the Township.
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This summer, we will be doing pop-up self-directed activities that allow for family fun while social distancing throughout all the parks in Deerfield Township.
These include Fairy and Gnome Houses and Trail, StoryWalks, Youth/Teen/Adult Fitness Trails, Where's Waldo and more.
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Looking for a fun/creative activity that will get your kids outside? Build a fairy or gnome home to be included in this week's Fairy & Gnome Trails in Deerfield parks!
Deerfield Parks & Recreation will feature Fairy & Gnome homes on trails at seven different parks throughout the Township from June 10th - 14th. Each park will feature a different theme and fairy/gnome homes created by you!
Check out the different park themes for inspiration and sign up at
www.DeerfieldRec.com
to participate. Then, take a nature hike to collect natural materials and use your sticks and pebbles to create a miniature home for a fairy, gnome, or other woodland creature. Registered participants will receive an email with additional instructions for placing their miniature creation on the designated trail.
Need inspiration? Visit
https://fairyhouses.com/
for pictures of examples, a how-to page, and even related children's books on fairy houses by the author/illustrator Tracy Kane.
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Due to current COVID-19 guidelines, the Movie in the Park previously scheduled for Friday June 12th, has been transformed into a drive-in movie that is NOW SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 19th and will take place at North Cincinnati Community Church.
However, with this change, capacity is limited. Entrance to this event will be limited to those with a winning raffle ticket. Raffle entry is free; only 1 entry per household.
Raffle registration will be open June 10th - 15th.
Raffle winners will be notified via email on Tuesday, June 16th.
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Throughout the Summer we will be having StoryWalks available in our parks including:
Carter Park Monthly Rotating StoryWalk with
June's featured book being BOB AND OTTO © 2007 by Robert O. Bruel. Pictures © 2007 by Nick Bruel. Reprinted by permission of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership. All Rights Reserved. For more information about the Carter Park Rotating StoryWalk please visit: http://ow.ly/51RV50A2Odd.
We also have StoryWalk: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, which more information can be found at https://bit.ly/2BHnqqn.
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The Warren County Park District is challenging kids between now and Labor Day to do the 100-Hours-Outside Summer Challenge. ANY time outside counts including our Park Pop-Up Activities!
Every child who completes the challenge will receive a prize AND will be entered into a drawing for a grand prize, which will take place at the Friends of Warren County Park District meeting at 1pm on 9/9/20 (winner does not need to be present).
As a part of this, the Warren County Park District will be conducing a county-wide BioBlitz with iNaturalist. It's an activity that families can do on their own while maintaining social distancing, and still encourages people to get outside and appreciate our natural spaces.
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The Mason Public Library will begin registering people for its Summer Reading Program between June 15th and June 30th.
During registration you will choose a goal for yourself and be entered to win a grand prize. Goals include the following options:
- Read or listen to 20 books in July.
- Read or listen for 20 hours in July.
- Read or listen for 20 minutes / day for 20 days in July
Our StoryWalks, Ebooks, audiobooks, assigned summer reading, bedtime stories, reading out loud, reading to your baby, graphic novels, magazines - it all counts as summer reading.
Grand Prize winners will be drawn randomly from those who registered. Winners will be drawn on Friday July 31st and notified by 5p.m. using the phone number or email provided during registration.
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Calendar Check
Make a note of these important meetings and upcoming events:
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