Round Rock Parks and Recreation's monthly "PARDcast" for September 2022 on upcoming events, programs and registrations.
September 2022 PARDcast Notes
Upcoming Events
•Friday Fun Nights at Yonders Point Free "Fiesta De Noche" Fri, Sept. 9. 6:30-8:30pm
(description notes)
• 9/11 Memorial at Flag Plaza/Yonders Presented by The Texas Fallen Project, Inc.
Sept. 7 thru.12th. 8am to 5pm. (description notes)
• Family Campout Fri. Sept. 16 thru Sat. Sept 17 at Old Settlers Park. (description notes)
Registration is requited. Register at roundrockrecreation.com
• Special Needs Family Jamboree Sat. Sept. 24 9am-Noon at Play for All Park. Parks and
Rec & Casey's Circle will be hosting the jamboree with crafts, games, music, snacks &
prizes! Also, learn about local offerings in the area as well.
• For more info on these and more upcoming events visit: roundrocktexas.gov/parksandrec
Program Guide
• The Fall/Winter/Spring 2022-2023 program guide is out now. Access the virtual
program guide online at roundrockrecreation.com, and a printed copy went out in
the the August addition of Community Impact Newspaper. The program guide has
all the information on special events, athletics, camps, after school programs and
more.
Rock'N River
•It's Rock'N River Waterpark Last Long Weekend! Come on out... Operating
hours can be found at roundrocktexas.gov/river.
Athletics
• Registration will be open for Fall/Winter Adult Men's & CoRec Softball and Youth
Basketball. More info at roundrockrecreation.com or teamsideline.com/roundrock.
Air Programs
•Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation Programs for September are live and ready
for registration! There's Art classes, Cooking classes, All Abilities Fitness Yoga,
Adaptive Football Sports Clinics and Power Soccer. Check out these AIR programs
and more at roundrockrecreation.com
Baca Center
•The Baca Center is hosting "A Grand Afternoon" to Celebrate Grandparents
Day. Sun. Sept 11th. 2pm-4pm. Grandparents and grand-friends are invited to bring
their grandchildren to the celebration for an afternoon full of crafts,
entertainment, refreshments and more! For more info on the Baca Center visit:
roundrocktexas.gov/bacacenter
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Roger
Welcome back, everybody to podcast. This is our September version. I'm Raj.
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Todd
And this is Todd.
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Roger
And we have a great show planned for you. Let me give you the lowdown on all the exciting things coming up in Parks and Recreation that we're going to be talking about. We're going to talk about all of our upcoming fall special events. You're not going to want to miss any of them. They're spectacular. We're also going to talk about our fall winter spring program guide that you should have got a copy of in Community Impact Newspaper.
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Roger
We're going to be talking about Rock and river as well and the final hours that are happening there. We're going to talk about athletics, air programing and so much more. So let's go ahead and get started with special events. You're not going to want to miss any of our fall events. First up is Friday fun nights at Yonder Point.
00;00;48;18 - 00;01;12;13
Roger
That's our very popular series at Yonder Spot in Old Settler's Park. Our next theme is really cool. It's Fiesta Technology and that's coming up on Friday, September 9th from sixth 3 to 830, a little bit earlier this time, because of the time changing, it's going to be a great event. We're going to have Ballet Folklorico perform. We're also going to be doing a movies in the park featuring the family movie Coco, which matches the theme.
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Roger
We have all sorts of other activities happening as well. You're not going to want to miss that event. And we have another real touching event coming up at Yonder Point. This is going to be done at the Flag Plaza. It's going to be a 911 memorial. It's going to happen at Yolanda's point, like I said, near the Flag Plaza.
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Roger
It's going to be presented by the Texas Fallen Project Inc. And they're going to be installing American flags in and around through the grass area to honor those that have fallen during 911. You're not going to want to miss that. Make sure you come on out and view that that's going to take place September 7th through the 12th.
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Roger
All the flags will be in place and you can go view that during regular park hours. We hope you'll come out, bring your kids and remember that memorial and the folks that we lost in 911.
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Todd
Yeah, that's going to be really, really awesome. I heard there's going to be like, what, 3000 flags?
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Roger
Yeah. Be actually upwards towards 4000 flags and they're honoring 911 folks who have fallen and also folks that we have lost in the military. Just a big thank you to the Texas fallen Project, Inc for putting that all together just great. We've got great social interaction around this event so we know what's going to be popular. And like I said, you can come September 7th through the 12th and view that memorial.
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Roger
And also we have family campout coming up. It's extremely popular. That's happening Friday, September 6th through Saturday, September 17th. You can come on out to old settler's park, pitch your tent and camp with your family. The cool thing is, is we serve you dinner and breakfast. We make it easy and then we have all sorts of fun family activities happening throughout the evening that's popular today, usually sells out every year.
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Todd
It's very, very popular. And forget the big decorating tent contest.
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Roger
That's right. Yeah.
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Todd
They actually you can decorate your tent and you win prizes on it. But there are some really, really creative people that show up to this. So you can deck your your tent out on this one.
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Roger
And this is the only opportunity where you have the chance to spend the night in one of our parks and actually camp and we make it fun. So I'm going to move on the next one. The next event is our Special Needs Family Jamboree. We always partner with Casey Circle at the play for All Abilities Park for special needs kids in Their Families.
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Roger
That's coming up Saturday, September 24th, from nine to noon at the play for All Park. It's always a great event. We hope you all come out and enjoy that. For more information about all of our events, because you're going to want to know about them all because there are band tastic, you can go to Round Rock, Texas, dot gov slash parks and Rec.
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Roger
Now, Todd's going to tell you all about our new fall, winter, spring, a program guide that has all the information about everything. Parks and Rec.
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Todd
Yes, it is, Roger. There's tons of information on all our events, our programs, sports, you name it. Bob Barker Center. It's all in that program guide. And this this actually past August, the community impact newspaper had a insert in there. So there is a paper copy. So double check if you still have that Community Impact News paper from August, check it out in there if you would like.
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Todd
You can also go to Round Rock Recreation dot com and there's a virtual one that you can visit and look at online and you can also download that.
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Roger
Yes. So we make it easy to connect with us and figure out everything. Parks and Rec. Yes. Now, Todd, tell him about rock and river. We have one more this weekend and that'll be our last chance until we open up next summer. Tell them about.
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Todd
It. Time that. That's right. This is the official last weekend for Rock and River. And it has been a great summer. And we're going to go out with a big bang and we want everybody to come on out. We'll be open for three days. You can get the operating hours online at Round Rock, Texas, dot gov slash river.
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Roger
We'll see you all there. Now, I'm going to tell you a little bit about our athletics programs. Registration is open for a fall winter for adult men's and co rec, softball and youth basketball. You can find more information about that around rock recreation dot com or teen sideline dot com slash round rock. We have an incredible athletics department here and if you haven't engaged with us, we give you the invite right now to go online and register.
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Roger
We just have great programs. We also have fantastic adaptive and inclusive recreation programs and we have a lot going on for September. There is art classes, cooking classes, all abilities, fitness, yoga, adaptive football, sports clinics, power soccer and so much more. We are so proud of our air programing and want all of our children and family members out there to take part in it.
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Roger
As always, you can find more information about air programing and athletics at Round Rock Recreation dot com.
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Todd
Now we had the opportunity to spend some time with the Power Soccer team.
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Roger
Yeah. Where they actually play soccer in their wheelchair.
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Todd
Yes. And these kids were absolutely amazing. So go green machines. Yeah.
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Roger
And check out that video that we did, too, because we want to tell you award for that video.
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Todd
Yes.
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Roger
So video.
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Todd
Was amazing. Kids, really good program.
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Roger
We also have an exciting event that we do annually at the Barclays Center coming up at times. Going to tell you all about.
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Todd
That's right, the Barclays Center. We love the folks at the Abacus and they are absolutely great. So they're hosting what is called a grand afternoon to celebrate Grandparents Day, and that's on Sunday, September 11th, from 2 to 4 p.m.. So grandparents and grand friends are invited in to bring their grandchildren to celebrate this special day and the afternoons full of crafts, entertainment, refreshments and so much more and for more information on that one, you can visit Round Rock, Texas dot gov slash Barclays Center.
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Todd
So that's going to be a lot of fun.
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Roger
It's going to be Owatonna. I'm a grand dad, so maybe I should bring my grandson.
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Todd
Right now to this.
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Roger
Grand afternoon. But oh, man, hard to believe I'm a grandpa. Well, that wraps up our edition of September podcast. Just want to remind everybody you can find podcast on several of your favorite podcast apps. You can also ask Alexa and Google to play the latest podcast. You can also stay connected with us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter and make sure you follow into subscribe to our podcast.
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Roger
So you can always be in the know with everything Parks and Rec and you can also find links mentioned in this podcast in the episode notes below. Well, that wraps it up for our September version of podcast. I'm Rog.
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Todd
And this is Todd
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Roger
And remember.
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Child
Parks are where communities become great!
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Child