Welcome back to Round Rock Parks and Recreation’s monthly “PARDcast” hosted by Maggie and Christian. We are now a Vidcast & Podcast! Catch up on the latest PARD news and adventures at various parks and trails as well as special random guests from our amazing Round Rock Community! This new season and episode of PARDcast covers upcoming events, programs, and registrations.
• Welcome to the Round Rock Parks & Recreation April 2024 PARDcast.
• We are hanging out at Kinningham Park asking people of they’re down with OPP.
• The Kinningham House is just one of the PARD facilities available for rental. You can view available facilities & details at roundrocktexas.gov/rentals
• Earth Day will be at the Rabb Pavilion in Old Settlers Park on Sat April 20 from 9am-12pm. Free event. Park clean up, visit exhibitors, learn ways to protect environment, & activities & services.
• First ever Jazz at the Windmill will be at Yonders Point in Old Settlers Park on Fri April 26 from 6-9pm. Embrace the New Orleans vibe. Live music by the Boss Street Brass B&, food trucks, Mardi Gras beads, & more.
• The AIR Un-Birthday Party will be at Play for All Park on Mon May 6 from 5:30-7:30pm. RR PARD & Casey’s Circle invite individuals with disabilities & their families to join us in celebrating our Un-Birthdays. Register at caseycircle.org/unbirthday!
• An Evening Under the Stars will be at Centennial Plaza on Thur May 9 from 7-10pm. For ages 50+ & will feature music & dancing, hors d’oeurvres & drinks. Tickets are available now.
• Donut Dash 5K will take place on Sat May 11 in Downtown RR. Race will start at Prete Plaza at 7am & make sure to join us for the post race after party at the Water Tower. Registration is open.
• Tickets & more info at roundrocktexas.gov/parks&rec & click on Special Events.
• Adult Sport Meet Ups begin April 9 (tue) & registration is still open. First meet up is Sand Volleyball.
• Speaking of Sand Volleyball, the Adult S& Volleyball League begins April 25. Both team & free agent registration is open.
• Adult Kickball League begins April 15 for both the Yellow & Red Ball Levels. The Yellow Ball Level still has some spots open so if you’re interested in playing, you can still register.
• Adult Pickleball League begins April 23 for the Tue section, & April 24 for the Wed sessions. There are still a few spots open in the April sessions & the July sessions.
• Youth Track & Field starts April 23 & registration is still open.
• More info & registration for all of these athletic programs online at roundrockrecreation.com
• Registration is open for our STEAM Camps from chess to art, cooking to Minecraft, our special interest camps offer something for everyone to enjoy.
• We are celebrating International Dance Day on April 27 from 9am to noon at Centennial Plaza with a free dance fitness workshop featuring several different dance styles. Registration is encouraged!
• You can find more info & registration for all of our STEAM Camps & our International Dance Day workshop online at roundrockrecreation.com
• Registration is open for April & May Lifeguard Training & Certification Classes. Lock in your training spot & register at roundrockrecreation.com. Individuals who commit to work for the RR PARD lifeguard team for the summer season will receive a discount on class registration fee. Contact pardcustomerservice@roundrocktexas.gov or call 512-218-5540 for more info.
• Speaking of lifeguards, currently hiring for several aquatics positions (especially lifeguards). Visit roundrocktexas.gov/jobs to find all available job listings.
• Find info about all of our outdoor pools & season hours of operation at roundrocktexas.gov/pools
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Hello. Hello everyone, and welcome to the April edition of the podcast. I am Maggie, this is Christian. We are at the Kinningham Park today, home of the beautiful Kinningham House. You too can rent the Kinningham House for your events, weddings, gatherings. You can also find this facility and all of our other rentals at roundrocktexas.gov/rentals and we have upcoming events with Maggie.
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The one we have coming up the soonest is going to be Earth Day. That's happening at the Rab Pavilion and Old Settler's Park on Saturday, April 20th. It's going to be from nine to noon. Okay, that's going to be a super fun free event. Come down, participate in the park, clean up, chat with some vendors here about what they do to protect the earth.
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Learn what you can do to help protect and clean the Earth. We also have the first ever jazz at the windmill event coming up, and I am over the moon. I'm so excited. It's going to be at Yonder point in Old Settler's Park on Friday, April 26th. So about about a week later from 6 to 9 p.m.. Now this is going to be a New Orleans themed big band event.
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We're gonna have Mardi Gras beads. There's going to be food trucks, the Bar Street brass Band is going to be their second line style. The Air Unbirthday Party, that is. The adaptive and inclusive Unbirthday party will be at the Playful Park on Monday, May 6th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.. Now that is, as I said, an adaptive and inclusive event.
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It is geared towards individuals with disabilities and their family to provide them a space so that they can come and enjoy safely together. That event is also a register event, so you're going to have to buy it. You have to register, you have to get your tickets, which you can do at, Casey Circle, Casey circle K e y at CRC Ellie org forward slash unbirthday.
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The Baka center will be presenting or putting on their an evening under the Stars event. It's going to be at Centennial Plaza, which is located just behind the box center. Super easy to find on Thursday, May 9th from 7 to 10 p.m. it is for ages 50 plus and will feature music, dancing or d'oeuvres. Drinks and tickets for that are available online right now.
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Finally, our donut dash 5K. A round rock favorite, a round rock classic. It is coming back and it is time to register. We want you to take on the ultimate donut Challenge. Are you brave enough to do it? Let's see. This is a super fun event where essentially what you're going to do is you're going to run half of five K in the middle, you're going to stop, and you're going to try to down a dozen donuts, finish the five K, and if you're taking the challenge, you're going to do it in under an hour.
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So let's see. Let's see if you're brave enough to take on the ultimate challenge. And we are super excited to have round Rock donuts supplying us donuts obviously. I mean, who else, who else? Round Rock donuts classic. Also, make sure to stick around afterwards for our party. Our after party gives me music. More food. For those of you who maybe didn't participate in the challenge because you don't have to.
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You can if you want, but there will be other food options afterwards, and they're going to be games as well. That is taking place on Saturday, May 11th, and tickets are on sale right now, so you got to grab those. This is a fan favorite event and it sells out quickly. So all of these events that I've mentioned you can register for tickets now at roundrocktexas.gov/parks and rec.
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If you click on special events, you'll see the list of all of our events and you're going to want to if you're registering for events, you're going to want to click on either an evening under the stars or you want to click on donate, and you're going to get all your information right there. What's going on with athletics?
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right. I'm your sports fan, Christian. And I'm here to tell you about our last athletics coming up. The adult Sand volleyball league begins April 25th. Both teams and free agent registration is open. Right now. We have the adult kickball league beginning April 15th for both the yellow and red ball levels. All right, you know it. You love it.
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It's the fastest growing sport in America. It's pickleball. And we have two, sections. We have a Tuesday section and a Wednesday section. The Tuesday one is going to be beginning April 23rd, and the one day section is going to be on April 24th. All right. Upcoming next is youth track and field, starting April 23rd. And registration is still open for that.
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I know I've said a lot of words, but if you want to find more info and registration about all these athletic programs online, you go to roundrockrecreation.com. We've actually got a couple of super fun steam camps that are open for registration right now. These are special interest camps. So we're talking things like chess, art, music, Minecraft, gaming, Legos, those super specific interests that your kids are just obsessed with, whatever they may be.
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We've probably got a camp for them. We are also celebrating International Dance Day on April 27th. We are going to be out at Centennial Plaza, which is that area behind the Baka Center, having an International Dance Day workshop party. Fun old time. It is going to be a free workshop event. You know, I keep mentioning the summer is coming up, we're about to hit our big event season.
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There's going to be an event happening every week, but there's also some other stuff that you want to do during the summer. Maybe you want to cool off. Christian, what can the people do to start cooling off the summer water? End of sentence. Period. Done. Wrap it up. Water. Registration is open for April May. Lifeguard training and certification classes lock in your training spot and register at round Rock recreation.com.
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Individuals who commit to work for the round Rock Park Lifeguard team for the summer season will receive a discount on class registration fee. Here's who you got to contact. Got a contact card customer service at
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roundrocktexes.gov. If you want to get your
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certification, you want to
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get into that class at a discounted rate. You want to work as a round rock lifeguard.
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You can't go online to register. You're going to have to contact us. Also, we have a phone number (512) 218-5540. For more info. All right, speaking of lifeguards currently hiring for several aquatic positions, especially lifeguards. Visit round roundrocktexas.gov/jobs to find all available job listings. We will be posting where we are going to be hanging out for the next part.
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Cast the week that we are doing that part. Cast. So keep an eye on our socials. You can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, forward slash x yeah threads to see upcoming events, programs, registrations, the calendars for the pool openings and to see where we're going to be hanging out next. We'd love for you guys to come hang out with us.
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Well, hello everyone. Got a crowd. Oh, crowd. Okay, so how about this, you guys? I got some merch items here. I got some little flashlights. I got some fans. Do y'all want to take a little quiz with me? Yeah. Okay, so who can tell me how many parks are in round Rock? like a hundred. Who's got a hundred?
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Me. Here. Do you want a flashlight? Yes. To be correct, we have 54 parks, but soon enough, we'll have 100. Why not do it? Yeah, okay. Who knows? The biggest park in round Rock. That's one time. Put the train park in a green slide. You close. Close. Oh, all. Wait, that is good. Yes. So Play Pro is actually our second biggest park.
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Old Settlers Park is our biggest in round Rock and actually rivals Zilker Park in Austin in size. It's where we host most of our events. Okay. Does anyone know how many events we host? I'm guessing 50. Who got 50? No. Yes. So we actually host around 24 events, but those are just our special events. So 25. Yeah, you say it again.
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I said 25. All right I can take that. So I'm going to just do it. There you go. 10,000 okay. Can anyone name. Well we're talking about special events right? Aren't you. That's an answer while we're talking special events. Does and can anyone name one of the three biggest events that take place in round Rock? Christmas. I miss Christmas and what it meant Halloween and Haunted your life just gave me one.
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That's for the 4th of July. That is one of our biggest events. You. What do you think makes round Rock park's outstanding public park? Let's go. I think it is because it's beautiful. Because it's beautiful. I like that big, big fun, fun. Oh, isn't this fun? Yes, they are fun. That's what makes them outstanding. Do you?
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I like all the stuff they have. Yeah, like the playgrounds.
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Are you guys. Oh, fun. I love the scenery. Oh. The scenery. Nice. Yes. And. Sorry. Oh, yeah. We're gonna vote for you. Okay, so on the count of three, I want you all as loud as you can to say outstanding public parks. Okay. Three. Two. One. Outstanding. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Thank you guys. And thank you for watching.
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Have a great day.