Round Rock Parks and Recreation's monthly "PARDcast" for May 2022 on upcoming events, programs and registrations. Further information on the new monthly podcast.
Upcoming
Events
• Memorial Day Ceremony, Mon, May 30 at 10-11am at Yonders Point Phase 2
• Save The Dates for Friday Fun Nights at Yonders Point. Kick off is June 3 6:30-8:30pm
for the Country Hoedown. FREE food and refreshments, Lonestar Beer, country line-dancing,
LIVE music and more. More info roundrocktexas.gov/fridayfun
• 14th annual FREE Round Rock Juneteenth Festival. Saturday, June 18, 2022, 4 to
11:30pm at Old Settlers Park. Kid N Play, Vedo, and Jay Shale.
• For more info on these and upcoming events visit: roundrocktexas.gov/parksandrec
Rock'N River
• New Pay Rates for SUMMER JOBS! Starting pay of $15 to $19.50/hr! (Dependent of
Position and Experience) Ages 15+ Hiring For Lifeguards , Pool Attendants, Cashiers, Swim
Instructors, Pool Management, Camp Counselors and Camp Management.
• Rock'N River Waterpark will be officially open Fri, May 27 from 12-6m.
• Rock'N River is now booking Cabana rentals for the summer.
• Visit roundrocktexas.gov/river where you can Buy tickets, Get Rental Info, See
Hours of Purchase Season Passes!
• Speaking of Season Pass Holder's! You will get a Preview Party before it's opened to
the public on Sat, May 21st.
Athletics
• Adult Mens Basketball Summer One League registration ends May 29th.
• Registration is now open for Youth Sports Camps. We offer a wide range of sports
such as Tennis, Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball and pickle-ball! Camps begin the week of
June 6th and throughout the summer. More details and to register visit:
roundrockrecreation.com
Closing
• PARDcast is now available on several of your favorite podcast apps now!
• You can even ask Alexa, Echo and Google to play the latest Round Rock Parks and
Recreation PARDcast and listen to upcoming events and more!
• Stay connected with us on FB, Insta, Youtube & Twitter
• And, roundrocktexas.gov/parksandrec
• Also at roundrockrecreation.com to view and register for programs and events.
• Our Summer Program Guide can viewed and downloaded there as well
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Roger
Well. Welcome back to the Round Rock Parks and Recreation. May 2022. PARDcast . This is our second one where we're going to tell you all about what's going on in your. Parks and Recreation Department. I'm Roger.
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Todd
And this is Todd.
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Roger
Well, let me tell you, we're here spring and summer, and we have so many amazing special events coming your way that we are so excited to tell you about. And then, Todd, why don't you tell him what else we're going to be talking about today?
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Todd
We're going to cover some things at rock in river because it's openning soon. And when we get to that section of this episode.
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Roger
And it's hot.
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Todd
So we're going to share some exciting news.
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Roger
Our residents are ready to get into some pools. Definitely. We're also going to be talking about athletics, especially about men's basketball. And then we're going to talk about some of our youth summer camps as well. Well, that brings us to talk about some of our amazing events coming up this month. We're doing a Memorial Day ceremony at a brand new section.
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Roger
In Yonders Point in old settlers park. That's going to take place Monday, May 30th from ten to 11 in the morning. And it's at our new phase two at yonders point. And we'll be honoring those who are in the military. So we just want everybody to come out and join us for that Memorial Day ceremony. We also want to talk about Friday Fun Nights coming back to Yonder Point.
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Roger
Yeah, that's always so much fun. We get huge attendance there. The first one is going to be June 3rd, and it's going to be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and it's our country hoedown. So we're going to have food line dancing and all of that. And of course, Lone Star Beer will be there giving away free beer. So you can't I mean, you can't beat that Todd.
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Roger
Free beer, free food. And then also we have our 14th annual Free Round Rock Juneteenth Festival coming up Saturday, June 18th at Old Settlers Park. You don't want to miss it. We have Kid N Play coming Vedo and back by popular demand. Jay Shale. It's a whole night of great music. Live music and amazing food. It's a great celebration. So come on out and enjoy all of those events.
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Roger
You can go get more information about all of our events at roundrocktexas.gov/parksandrec
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Todd
So now we're going to move into rock and river and we have some big, big news. Drumroll, exciting news. New pay rates for summer jobs. So it's going to actually be moving up to 15 to 1950 per hour depending on the position and the experience. And this is for ages 15 plus they are hiring for lifeguards pool attendants, cashiers, swim instructors, pool management, camp counselors and camp management.
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Todd
And you can apply and check out these jobs online at roundrocktexas.gov/jobs
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Roger
I can't think of a more fun job being pool side and working with the.
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Todd
Community and working on your tan.
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Roger
I know we do have we have some great kids already are great young adults I should say.
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Todd
It's exciting so moving on here the rock and roll water park will officially open Friday May 27th. You can also start booking your cabana rentals as well at Rock and River.
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Roger
Go go in style to rock and river. Have your own cabana.
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Todd
singing...
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Roger
Or something like that.
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Todd
OK so you can find all of this information out at roundrocktexas.gov/jobs where you can buy tickets, get rental info, see hours, purchase season passes. And speaking of season pass holders, you will have a preview party before it's opened to the public, which is exciting.
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Roger
Very cool. Exclusive party rock and River.
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Todd
Pass Holder the park is going to be all yours that Saturday May 21st.
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Roger
So exciting news. I know our residents are always excited and when we open our pools we are to now we have great things happening and athletics to adult men's basketball summer one league want to remind everybody that registration ends May 29th. So if you have not registered yet make sure you do that and the registration is now open for youth sports camps as well.
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Roger
We offer just a wide range of sports camps for all different ages and we want to just have you go to roundrockrecreation.com. You can get all the information about all of our sports summer camps and we have some really exciting news PARDcast is now available and several of your favorite PARDcast Apps, which is pretty incredible.
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Roger
Or you can ask Alexa or Google to play the latest round rock parks and recreation PARDcast and listen to all of our upcoming events and more.
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Todd
So here you can say Alexa play round rock, you can have round rock parks and rec (laughing)
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Roger
Sorry. Up while we have Alexa here and she's now listening to us and she's actually now playing our podcast. Yup. There she goes.
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Todd
So yeah, you can ask Alexa. Yep. That's pretty cool. heard her in the background.
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Roger
And then we can also stay connected with us on social media, on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter, of course. And also a roundrocktexas.gov/parksandrec. You can also check out our summer program guide electronically there. It's an e-book, so some great stuff at those websites.
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Todd
We have a lot of different links and stuff. So down in the show notes down below, find all this information and all the links and don't forget to like follow and subscribe to the PARDcast so you don't miss out on any events or any programs.
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Roger
Well, that concludes our May 2022 version of PARDcast. This is Roger signing out.
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Todd
And this is Todd and.
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Roger
We'll see you next time.
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Todd
It's summertime.
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Roger
Summer. Let's party.