July 23, 2025 • 36 mins
This episode is your all-access pass to the fun, fitness, and friendships waiting in Milton’s Parks and Rec world. Host Christy Weeks sits down with three members of the Parks and Rec team, Micaela Burke, Thomas Rhodes, and Matthew Graney, to talk about the programs, people, and behind-the-scenes magic that make it all happen. Whether you're chasing toddler energy, looking for a new hobby, or hoping to connect with neighbors, this department has something for you. From packed sports programs and creative kids’ classes to unique adult groups and senior socials, there’s something here for everyone. You’ll also hear about hidden gems like the Atlanta Pétanque League, budget-friendly rental venues, and how this once two-person team has grown into a community powerhouse. Tune in and get inspired! Your next favorite activity might be closer than you think.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Milton and Maine, the official podcast for
the city of Milton.
We want to bring you closer tothe heart of our community
through stories that inform,inspire and connect.
Each episode offers abehind-the-scenes look at the
people, projects and prioritiesshaping Milton, covering
everything from local governmentand future development to arts,
culture, sustainability andpublic safety.
(00:28):
Whether you're a resident, alocal business owner or just
curious about our city, this isyour front row seat to what
makes Milton special.
Hey, everyone, welcome back toMilton in Maine.
I'm your host, christy Weeks,the communications manager for
the city of Milton.
Today's episode is all about fun, connection and community,
because the new Parks andRecreation Activities Guide for
Fall and Winter is officiallyout.
(00:49):
Whether you're new to Milton ora longtime resident, there's
something for just abouteveryone.
In the latest lineup, I'mjoined by three of the amazing
individuals who make ourprograms possible Michaela Burke
she's our Parks and RecSpecialist.
Matthew Graney, recreationCoordinator.
And Thomas Rhodes, our Parksand Recreation Program
Supervisor, and we're going totalk all about what's new,
(01:11):
what's backed by popular demandand how to get involved.
So, whether you're looking fora new activity for your child,
wanting to connect with otheradults in the community or just
trying to stay active thisseason.
This episode has you covered.
So, everybody, thank you somuch for being here, thanks for
having us Of course, happy to behere.
You've all been here before,Matthew.
I know you're a little far offthe mic there, but you're going
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to, we're going to, we're goingto get you.
Say hi to everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Hello everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right.
So, um, we've had you all onbefore, but I want to take about
a hot minute just so you cankind of give us a quick history
of the part you play in Parksand Rec, because there's a lot
of you over there and I knowthat because I share a floor
with you and everybody has suchspecific talents and energy that
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they bring to the program.
I think it's really importantto remind everybody and for
those that are are new what'sgoing on in the Parks and Rec
Department.
So, michaela, let us knowwhat's going on.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I'm the Parks and Recreation Specialist.
I've been here about threeyears.
I do a lot of random things.
I do some administrative tasksfor our department.
I help with events.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
If we need a building painted or something like that,
I'm the one who goes and gets.
Oh, so I can call you when Ineed help.
Let's see, I believe Tom calledyou the Swiss army knife I'll
do your bathroom for a hundredthousand dollars.
Oh yeah, my bathroom's not thatbad.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Thanks, anyway, I'll put you on the list.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'll put you on the list, Thomas.
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Nothing much Happy to be here again.
Yeah, so my title is the parksand Recreation Program
Supervisor.
More specifically, I deal withthe city's athletic program
providers, work with them,oversee the contracts.
Very important task that I haveis overseeing the field space
and allocating field space toour different programs.
As you know, we have a lot ofthem and we're a little bit
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short on field space.
So, yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That's what you do.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You make it sound so easy, but I feel like your job
would be like if I had to fillin for someone.
Yours is like the last job Iwould want to fill in for
because it sounds so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, there's a talent to balancing schedules
like that and, like you said, wehave a lot of programs,
programs and there's a lot ofthings that we offer in
conjunction with othermunicipalities in field.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
space is a thing absolutely yeah so I don't want
your job either fortunately, Idon't have to create the
schedules, but I just got tomake sure our teams are in the
right spot at the right time oohright on Matthew.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
yes, my name is Matthew.
I'm the recreationalcoordinator here for the city of
Milton.
If you're in Parks and Rec, youdo a lot of jobs Like it's not
just one, you don't really haveone job, it's a lot.
So with me it's a non-sportsprogramming.
Also, it's the rentals for ourfacilities that we have.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And we'll get into that, because I really want you
to touch in on all the availablespace that we have.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So and then also as well too, I oversee the like the
summer camp, so it's going onright now Also.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I've been here in Milton for it'll be three years
in August.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It just feels like it's flown by.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, well, y'all are , and we covered this in one of
the episodes.
Y'all are relatively newgrowing department, like a
handful of years ago, less thanfive, it was like two or three
of you and now there's six ofyou and interns.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, that's correct, we've got interns as well.
But you're correct, there wasjust two of us it was Tom and
myself several years ago, andfortunately we've added to the
team.
Yeah, that's correct, we've gotinterns as well.
But you're correct, there wasjust two of us it was Tom and
myself several years ago, andfortunately we've added to the
team.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, no, it's a lot of fun up here.
I'm not going to lie, Iwouldn't want to be anywhere
else, but up here, me and mynosy self jumping in the middle
of your meetings.
So let's start off.
Let's talk about what is newthis season, because you guys
just pushed out this brand newfall winter activities guide and
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it is full of things.
What's new?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
well, I don't have a lot of new going on, but, um,
we're continuing with ourthriving athletic programs.
We're looking forward to a busyfall season, um, you know,
stacked with all of our youthopportunities, anything from
baseball and basketball,lacrosse.
We also have some adultopportunities as far as soccer
and our baton program.
So, yeah, we have a lot ofthings going on in the athletic
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department.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And those continue to be very robust programs that
come back every year and seem tocontinue to grow.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, that's correct.
Like we touched on before,we're busting at the seams as
far as it goes on field space.
But yeah, we've always-.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Hang on, Deerfield's coming.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Exactly, we've always got room for more participants,
but our programs definitelycontinue to grow season to
season.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So I'm guessing that's why, when we say register
early space limited, itliterally means space is limited
, jump on it, jump on it oh, Iwould really encourage.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
If you have kids in that age bracket where they're
going to be doing sports, signup for our email newsletter,
because thomas does a reallygreat job of he'll have this
whole chart in there of you knowthis sport registration opens
on this date and so it's hard tokeep track of that stuff on
your own if you're notsubscribed to our newsletter, I
mean I missed.
I even work in this departmentand I have missed registration
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dates before and had to go tolike I-9 sports.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Come and talk to me because I do your newsletter.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's coming.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You guys do a great job gathering all the
information for people to knowand keeping them up to date on
what's new and how to getregistered.
I mean there's 8,000opportunities and you guys do a
good job at reminding.
Plus Matthew's favorite helikes flyers.
I love flyers love flyers,flyers and signs, but you know
what it works and when you'vegot great programming.
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That's why they do well.
What do you have new coming up?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, yeah, so so far in the summertime, the
summertime, we're trying to addsome new and some exciting
programs.
I will say majority of the newones are not in this upcoming
guide because obviously with theguide it takes months of
planning and also printing aswell too.
So fortunately those onesweren't in the guide.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But they're still going to be available in the
fall.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah correct, those ones weren't in the guide, but
but they're still going to beavailable in the fall.
Yeah, correct.
So obviously we do have the theprograms that are in our guide
currently, like the kid create,which is the art classes for
kids, we have the art for ronnie, yeah, by teens and also with
adults, and then also as well,too, we have the baby suit boot
camp classes, and then we havethe yoga classes as well and the
bombay jam for FitnessCurrently, right now, we have a
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couple new programs that are notin there, but they are going.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well, tell us what they are.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We have the Keto Kinetics, which it's not
official yet, but they'll behoping to start in the fall.
It's kind of like a wholeintroduction to sports for the
toddler age, because currentlywe have the Toddler Tuesday
program, which is a freeoffering that Michaela does an
awesome job of doing, but wedon't have really any programs
besides Tyler Tuesday.
So I spoke with a lot ofparents.
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For example, there was thishusband and wife that came in
and they were like hey, we'removing to Milton, what are some
programs that you have for theTyler age?
and I was like fortunately, allwe really have is the Tyler
Tuesday right now, but we'reworking on adding the a couple
new programs.
So we have the kiddo kinetics.
Um, we have this music classfor the toddler age that is
starting up in August as well,and then also we have the kids
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yoga, which is kind of like ameditation and kind of yoga
program listen.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
If I would have thought when my kids were little
that they were gonna to dosomething like yoga, I'd have
shoved them in there.
That was not on the books atthe Weeks family.
Those kids were mm, mm-mm.
What do you mean?
Take a deep breath.
They were too busy yelling atme.
Breathe, child.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I will say yoga is awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It's fabulous yeah my kids loved doing story time and
yoga at the library when theywere little, when we lived in
Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's probably why your kids are more mellow than
mine.
Mine are super high strung.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And then we have our catalog where you can go on the
website.
You have the youth programs,you have the adult and the teen
programs kind of listed together, and then you have toddler like
like.
The Todd programs are listed aswell too on there.
So it has the different ageranges.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It has all the different tabs at the top
outdoor recreation.
You've got.
What do we call it?
We call it Outdoor Academy, nowthat kind of stuff.
There's a whole bunch of them.
It's actually pretty easy tonavigate once you get in there
and select the type of programyou're looking for, because
Thomas has his athletics.
You have a lot of yourprogramming and they're based on
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art or, uh, yoga or whatever.
It is so easy to navigate andwe'll kind of get into those
details towards the end.
So, um, I'm going to ask any ofyou guys feel free to answer as
you wish what?
What's the most popular, mostrequested program that we have?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
good question like non-athletic any, I don't care
any of them I would say ourbaseball program um just by the
sheer number of participants.
It has and it's continued togrow shocking baseball in
georgia being popular so they're, we're definitely looking,
looking forward to someadditional field space, uh, to
spread them out a little bit,but as far as numbers go, it
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would be youth baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And what are the age ranges on that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We've got everything from our mini hitters which is
three and four-year-olds that'smy favorite age to watch
baseball.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh my gosh, it's so cute.
They'll run the wrong directionor they'll be halfway to the
next one and then they'll juststop and look at the clouds or
something I'm pretty sure oneand then they'll just stop and
like look at the clouds orsomething I'm pretty sure so
cute.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I have a photo of my middle son squatted down in the
outfield because that's hisskill set.
Was the outfield?
Um, because we knew the ballwas never going out there.
They're slick man drawn in thedirt.
That was about as much fun ashe got.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Baseball was not his initial skill set but yeah,
we've got um, you know, aprogram for this is like okay,
thanks, we've got a program,obviously miniators for little
guys and girls and um play all.
The way you know they can learnthe game and play all the way
into high school through that'sawesome.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I love that.
Baseball is great sport.
I did like to watch it.
I'm just never one that couldplay softball.
I'm not a team sport, kind ofgal, individual sports.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
My kids have done several of these.
My 7-year-old son.
He's in Hopewell Baseball andhe loves it.
He did basketball and he didflag football with I-9.
But I feel like the fast sportswhere you're just running back
and forth, back and forth, youjust can't do it.
But baseball where, like, eachperson goes up and gets their
own turn, that's more his speed.
My daughter's in AYSA, sheloves it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
The Alpharetta Youth Softball Association.
So they practice at North Park.
She's done softball since shewas in preschool.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's the other thing that I found really
shocking in Georgia is howpopular softball is down here.
I mean a lot of our people Iknow, through pageants.
When their kids aren't on stage, they're literally playing
softball and they're they'rehitters man.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
They are competitive.
A lot of respect for that.
I love it.
Yeah, I would like to add, uh,you know why.
We've got plenty of kids on ourfields.
We also have some opportunities, you know, on the courts as
well Our basketball program, ourwinter basketball program.
We are using every inch of gymspace that we can possibly use
in the city of Milton.
That is available.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
We've even, you know, moved out and, you know,
conquered a little territory inAlpharetta, just because we need
the space that one I thoughtwas really cool because max did
that and sometimes they would goto shoot 360, which is an
incredible facility.
It's really cool is it just abunch of basketball courts and
it's courts and they have likethese big screens and like all
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these sectioned off areas andyou can be practicing and the
screen gives you you can dodifferent options and it gives
you all the kinds of feedback.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I don't know it looks yeah, yeah, it looks really
cool.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, we're definitely very fortunate to
have built a relationship withwith shoot 360.
Cool, but yeah, while I'mtouching on our court sports
here, you know our tennisprogram is busting at seams as
well, so we're looking forwardto getting some additional.
And is that all ages?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's as well.
So we're looking forward togetting some additional.
And is that all ages?
That's, we've got youth andadult, youth and adult?
Yeah, correct, I'll tell you.
When I first told my friends incolorado that we were moving,
they're like you've got to learnto play tennis.
I go listen myself.
Does not navigate a court quickenough.
It's just not my thing.
I have all the respect in theworld for it.
I wish I knew how to playtennis, because I think it's a
very my thing.
I have all the respect in theworld for it.
I wish I knew how to playtennis because I think it's a
very cool social game yeah,agree, even now it's pickleball
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now, I don't know.
I think I had this discussiononce before with me and tom.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, I don't need to tie one of one of his arms
behind his back he cheats?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm sure he cheats just out of height.
Someday maybe I'll learn how toplay pickleball.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I haven't even played it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You haven't no, then why are you telling me I've got
to play pickleball?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Because every area, every place I've lived, at every
job I worked, a pickleball wasinvolved at some point.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's hilarious and I love that.
The courts are starting to popup everywhere and it's this
whole again another socialcircle.
That's, the courts are startingto pop up everywhere and it's
this whole again another socialcircle that's what sports are.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
When you get old like me.
It's social, but also as welltoo.
Just being parks and rec andhaving parks and facilities and
just seeing the fields or thewhere the space is being used
for programming, it's a.
It's an awesome feeling thatyou see the registrations go
through and stuff like that andthen you see the programs happen
.
So it's at the tennis courts,at the baseball fields football
fields or at community place orBethel Community Center or at
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the Milton Community Center.
It's really cool to see.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, you know, because we talk about sports and
all these different activitiesand camps for kids and stuff.
But really all of the programsthat we offer, whether it's
sports, non-sports, whatever itis, it builds community and it
really connects people with thecity of Milton, but it connects
them to each other and that's soimportant and I think we're
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lucky that we have a smallenough town, big enough, but
small enough that that's stillrelatively a feasible goal to
set yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Sometimes my kids will walk into some of these
programs and they'll be like, ohit's so-and-so from my class,
like my son, my seven-year-olddid the play well one and he
walked in and some of hisclassmates were in there and he
got to make new friends too, andI love that play well, your
your lego thing.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I think it's the coolest thing.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I just wouldn't want to pick all the legos up yeah,
he's like obsessed with legosand they have like a minecraft
theme pokemon wizarding world sohe had a lot of fun there.
And then my youngest son and mydaughter did kid create and
they made a lot of really cuteart in that one.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Can I be honest, where does your kids art go?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It is actually displayed in my living room,
unless some of it might be goingin the trash soon, but it has
been displayed for like a year.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I have an entire plastic tub.
Listen, my kids are 25, 23 and22 and I have an entire plastic
tub of old drawings and cardsand some ceramics.
I have a bajillion tubs.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I like at the end of every school year I'm like can
we throw this out, can we throwthat?
And they'll be like you want tothrow away all this work that I
worked so hard on and then likeand I've seen enough episode of
hoarding buried alive, whereit's like if you throw away
things that they really want,then they can.
That can like trigger something.
So I'm like, okay, I justorganize it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The best I can.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So I have tubs and tubs and tubs of art.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You never know.
I display it the best I can.
One of your children may becomean artist.
My youngest is an artist.
He's an art photography guy.
So I'm hanging on all to this,to this art, because we're gonna
go oh look what he did.
He started here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I won't be surprised if my daughter was an artist.
She took um art with ranny andshe brought the pieces home and
I was like whoa, I was sofloored like my daughter is
starting to like run circlesaround me.
She's better athlete than me.
She can draw better than I can.
She can bake better than I canthat's our goal.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Every time I get the guy and I'm like what is she
going to do now?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
No, she no.
The stuff she makes is reallygood.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Here's the thing.
That's what we're supposed todo.
Our kids are we're supposed toraise our kids to be better than
us, right?
It's a cool thing that theyhave the opportunity to learn
some of the stuff, because Ididn't have all that.
You know where I grew up?
I did gymnastics, that was it.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, I feel like my kids.
I try to get them into as muchas I have the time to do.
I feel like every day afterschool I'm just driving from
point A to point B to point C,but it's so.
I mean, I feel like it's reallyimportant.
Like the art with Randy again,mika, she signed up with her
best friend and so they got togo for a whole month and like do
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all this art together.
It was so cute.
Um, I made my older to takebabysitter boot camp so they can
babysit each other so they canbabysit um babysit my youngest
Speaker 1 (18:30):
yeah, I need it and needs a little supervision, that
one.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I would really like to encourage everyone to sign up
their kids.
It's for kids 10 to 15, matthew, I think, and so my older kids
are home alone.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
10 to 15 for the babysitter boot camp yeah, so
like around that age?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
yeah, it's.
Uh, they have different typesof classes.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, my kids took the three hours so they they
were introduced to cpr and firstday they didn't get certified.
You have to take the five hourworkshop or the three-day camp.
For that.
I was so glad they took itbecause they had like an idea of
like how to give cpr and likehigh milk and stuff.
But they they got to use theactual mannequins and like the
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people who do this boot camphave different size mannequins,
and so I walked in right at theend when my daughter was trying
to get food out of the infantmannequin and she's so kind and
gentle and sweet and she wasjust like tapping the mannequin
and I was like no, no, no, mika,if someone's choking, you're
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like thumping, like don't beafraid to leave a bruise and
with the cpr I was like, don'tbe afraid if you're doing it
correctly, the ribs are breakingunder your hands, and she was
horrified and I was like no, ifyou survive, you can heal your
broken bones, but if you aren'tdoing cpr correctly, you know
you're not going deep enough andyou're not really doing it
right and they don't live.
You can't recover from that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So well, just make sure they don't practice on each
other here.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Let me try this on you, no if you have a kid in
that age range, I would highlyrecommend you sign them up for
that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah.
So, matthew, you, you had aprogram start over the summer.
Uh, romans, kicks and tricks,right?
Yeah, I'm a big martial artsfan.
I think it's amazing for kids,my children, they all took some
version of it, and my middle sonused to bribe my daughter let
me practice a headlock on youbecause he liked jujitsu and
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she's like, oh, nick, and he'slike, just like twice it was
chaos at my house.
But I do love some good martialarts.
I think it's a really goodthing for them to learn as far
as that.
And wrestling Wrestling isanother big sport that I love
and we don't have wrestling.
It's not much here.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We don't directly have wrestling but we do
advertise in the activitiesguide for the youth wrestling
program around the city which isout of Cambridge.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh is it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Now they've brought in Milton as well.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So there is, you know , cambridge and Milton, youth
Wrestling, one of the greatestsports ever, and the reason I
love it is because it is whenyou win, it is your win, when
you lose, it is your loss.
I mean, there is nothing else,but it's a great sport.
I love it.
I'm a big fan of all sports.
What else you got in the sportsrange over there?
You said you have patonk foradults we do.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It's probably our newest athletic program.
So the atlanta patonk leagueapproached the city just looking
for space, looking forsomewhere that they could play.
They already had it mapped out.
They have some greatrepresentatives.
Yeah, their interest was in theoverflow parking lot at bell
memorial park which, if you'refamiliar with bell park, you go
from all the paved parkingspaces at the park and then in
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the back is our overflow parkingwhich is all gravel which maybe
gets used a few times a year,sure.
So they approached us with theidea to partner up and needed
somewhere to play and we kind ofjumped all over it and all
learned a little bit about thetalk got out there.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So the gist of it, is it anything like?
The first thing comes to mindis like bocce ball.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It's uh, yeah it's.
That's an easy way probably toenvision it but, the game
definitely definitely differs.
It's a french game, but yeah,they get out there at least one
saturday per month and they alsorun some introductory classes
that's cool as well, so hey ifyou're going to pickleball, you
can patonk yeah
Speaker 3 (22:16):
one time, when this was probably two and a half
years ago, I went to New YorkCity for like a weekend and we
stumbled upon one park that waskind of like a French style park
and they were playing patonk.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's hilarious and I was just like I know what.
That is Not going to lie.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'd never heard about it until I got here and started
making all your stuff.
It's everywhere and, uh, bellpark has actually hosted the
national batonk tournament wowso we had people fly in from all
over uh to visit our city andplay out in our parking lot, so
that was a very yeah, very coolthing for us and I imagine we'll
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probably host again.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's amazing.
I did not know that.
Is this a fall type sport or isthis a year round thing?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
They're Saturdays.
They call them the Saturdaychallenge days.
They typically meet for theduration of the year, about once
a month, but as far as theirintroductory classes, they offer
a spring and a fall offer.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
That's really cool Right on month, but as far as
their introductory classes, theyoffer a spring and a fall offer
.
That's really cool right on.
So, matthew, we is first.
Before I move on, do we haveany other programs that we want
to make sure that we mention inhere, because I mean that's a
multi-page book, I mean, asidefrom Michaela's?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
yeah, I have a toddler Tuesday, starting back
up August 12th, and I'm going tomake it a little longer.
In the morning it used to be9-11, I'm going to make it 9-12
so people have a little extratime to play.
And then there's still theafternoon session from 3-5.
And then Book Club is goingstrong.
We meet 6-8pm one Wednesday amonth, usually at the Community
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Center at the Milton City Parkand Preserve, although if you
want to come, I would registeronline so I have your email and
I can give you all theup-to-date locations.
That's cool.
And the next day is July 30thand we're reading the 22 Murders
of Madison May by Max Berry.
And then my last program, wehave Mahjong.
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We do it Mondays from two tofour and Thursdays from 10 to 12
at community place right hereat city hall.
Yeah, and you need your owncard, but you don't have to go
out and buy your own Mahjong set.
So that game's addictive isthere's a lot of different
places you can go play in thecity really that's.
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That's what we offer here atcity hall are you a mahjong
player?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I can sort of play, I'm not great, I feel like it's
a thinking game.
Yeah, yeah, it's like a puzzle,oh, some like puzzles maybe I'm
an independent Mahjonger.
You don't have to play on ateam, do you?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
No, it's four people at each table and you're just
playing for yourself.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's awesome.
It's addictive.
I love that, and I think theSenior Center has some Mahjong
things going on.
We just started.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
One of my book club ladies taught people at the
senior center the past threeMondays, so that was really cool
.
We had 12 to 16 people come outevery day.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That's awesome.
Before we go any further, Iwant to make sure we are going
to do an entire episode on thesenior center.
We have a.
There is a ton of programmingout there.
They do such a great job andeverybody here works hard on it.
So I we can kind of touch on itjust real lightly, but I really
want a full episode on thesenior center because it's very
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cool.
Any takers?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
So senior services North Fulton they have buses
that will take people there.
You have to be 60 years old andlive in Oh'm almost there I can
almost go city hall over I'mgoing and they have a lot of
different activities during themorning and then they feed you
lunch and then the bus takes youhome.
(26:09):
But we're trying to start upsome afternoon programming
mahjong.
We have, uh, teen tech help afew days of summer.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well, that's cool because you you provide a
calendar for the newsletterevery month and we make sure
that we throw that in there.
So the easiest way for peopleto find out what's going on out
at the senior center is to signup for those emails, and we'll
be sure to give those all thosedetails and how, where to find
it and how to do it at the endof the episode, because it's
(26:40):
unbelievable how muchinformation y'all push out every
month.
So, matthew facilities we haverentables yeah almost like a
lunchable yeah, almost likeLunchable.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I haven't had a Lunchable in years.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, it's the quick easy charcuterie board.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I know I love Lunchables.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Okay, go Sorry.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But yeah, but you're right, you're actually making me
hungry now.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
We'll bus you over to the senior center.
You have to wait a littlelonger than I do.
You're only 25 years away.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You've got to wait 25 years.
I get to go in the next five,so I'll send you a letter.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, facilities.
So we have a lot of facilitiesthat you can rent for birthday
parties, baby showers, weddings,even weddings, even weddings.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Really, We've had two weddings at Broadwell Pavilion.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I think we had two weddings in the past over at
Broadwell.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
See, we're surprised no one has had a wedding at the
Milton City Park and Preserve,because it has a beautiful event
lawn and there's plenty ofspace inside.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I've had meetings and conversations with people, but
they never followed through withit.
But I definitely showed peoplearound the facility, potential
wedding over there.
But yeah, it's a nice facilityit is a very nice facility and I
will say all the facilitieshere are really nice and they
kind of fit the style of Miltonas well too.
But yeah, just speaking aboutBroadwell with those weddings,
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the person who actually did thewedding actually sent me videos
of kind of what it looked likeand it was like they decorated
the whole pavilion with lightsand stuff like that and it
turned out to be a really asuccessful rental for them and a
lot of people were veryimpressed.
Also, with the Milton CommunityCenter, we have birthday
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parties, we have familygatherings, we had graduation
parties over there if you wantto do a graduation party plan in
advance, because that's prettypopular in may yes, you are
correct, yeah, because correctyeah the last three years, I
will say in may.
Every weekend in may has beenfully booked with some type of
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graduation party.
So definitely book in advance.
So just a heads up.
You can do the applicationprocess.
You can start at six months orless, yeah, from the date.
So just a heads up on that.
So in the past we would receiveapplications in february,
january and march.
So just a heads up on that.
So in the past we would receiveapplications in february,
january and march.
So just a heads up on that.
But yeah, so we have the bravopavilion, we have the milton
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community center and then wealso have the bethwell community
center, which is anothersmaller venues kind of more
quiet, private.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
How many people?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
So that facility has capacity of 55 people.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Oh, it's bigger than I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah, I feel like that one is especially perfect
if you have like a birthdayparty for kids or maybe an
adult's getting their birthdayparty and a lot of family kids
are going to be there becausethere's the playground.
If it rains, you can all beinside.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's a front porch as well, that's a great facility
and it's not expensive.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It's like $50 an hour .
Right, correct, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Resident Milton's.
It's only $50 per hour, so it'sa really good value.
Also, the Bravo Pavilion it'sthe same price as well, too.
For a resident Milton it's only$50 per hour.
And then we also have.
I will say our popular spacefor meetings or for business
events is a community place byCity Hall, so that's a smaller
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kind of like a classroom settingso you can have your seminar or
a majority I will say a lot oflocal people who do retirement
classes.
They prefer community placebecause it's a good location.
It has everything you need.
It has a computer, it has aprojector, it has a screen.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That's awesome I had no idea I'm learning so much.
That's the best part about thispodcast is that I get to learn
so much more.
I mean, everybody gets busy intheir own world and it's.
I had no idea.
I knew we had facilities.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean basics, but that's really cool yeah, and we
also, and and chrissy, I willsay we do have some really cool
features as well too.
So, like at broadwell, if youhave a night rental, we're able
to set lights, so it's a basefor rental.
If you want to have a rentalfrom seven to 10, we can set the
lights around those times, sothey can.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Right on.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Have us dance party, kind of have a rental in the
dark.
Right on Anybody else, haveanything they want to throw in
there, and real quick.
Matthew, how do you book that?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, so it's kind of the same way you actually do
reservations for for ourprogramming.
We have a catalog.
It has has a tab where you cansee the facilities that we all
have, and then we have thecalendars as well too, so you
can see that, the days and timesthat the certain facilities
available and with ourfacilities.
We have application process.
You have to submit theapplication first, and then we
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have to approve it so once weapprove it, if it available then
you're able to make the payment.
It's pretty quick and easy.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So I know, on the dropdown, when you go to our
website wwwmiltongagov and yougo over to the government tab
dropdown into parks and rec,there's a sub menu item in there
that is rent a facility.
Is that correct, correct?
So any of the information thatwe're talking about right now
can all be found in that samemenu.
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There's a slew of information.
Click on a tab If you havequestions or anything.
There are phone numbers andemails attached just about
anywhere.
So they make it really easy foryou to get your questions
answered, get your facilitiessecured or get registered for a
program.
So y'all are very efficient atthat.
Anything else you want toinclude, thomas?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yes, I would like to just give a shout out to Rush
Union.
They are an adult soccerprovider but they also have a
really cool program at theirfacility that the city really
likes to help the market.
It's not a direct affiliationwith the city of Milton but they
do offer the Rush Union MiltonTop Soccer Thunder Program and
that program is our participantsfive to 16 years old with
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special needs.
Oh wow, amazing, really coolopportunity over there at their
facility.
The information is in ouractivities guide.
The information in theactivities guide will point you
in the right direction to get intouch with one of their staff
members so you can sign up.
But they typically play onSundays, have a couple different
time slots.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, it's really really cool what they have going
on over there.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I love that Y'all are really good about inclusive
programming.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I love that.
So if y'all are interested inany of this programming, you
want to get on that email listand sign up so you can stay up
to date on what's new, what'scoming.
Go ahead and take a look at theshow notes and I'll have a link
in there as to where you findthat information and you won't
be disappointed, because thenyou'll know everything that's
going on in Milton and it'll befun and you can patonk or soccer
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or mahjong your way into a newcommunity.
So since we have this new parksand rec guide coming out, where
are people going to find it?
I know we've got a digitalversion already loaded on the
website, but if somebody wants aphysical activities guide,
where do they go?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
that's a good question.
Thanks, yeah, that's a reallygood question.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
So yeah, I'm really good at those.
Those are those good questions.
Uh, a really good question.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm really good at those good questions but yeah,
so obviously you can find themat the facilities that we have
here in Milton.
So you can find them in thelobby area here at City Hall.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Also at the Milton Community Center, at the Milton
City Park and Reserves.
You can find that Sometimes youcan find them over at the
police station as well.
But yeah, so we always try topass it out to all facilities
around Milton just to help tryto get the word out.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, easy access.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, because sometimes you have a person who
likes to read something like infront of them instead of on a
laptop or a phone.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Well, listen, if it's not attached to my refrigerator
, I'm going to forget about it.
So if there's anythingimportant, it's going to be
magneted to the side of myrefrigerator, because I have to
see it.
But I'm a little old school onthings like that.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
No, I love paper.
I'm a paper person.
I don't like doing stuff on thecomputer.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's really easy to forget.
I have to print it off and readit.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
And we'll always have a box full at all of our city
events.
Oh yeah, definitely pick one up, yep yep.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Speaking of city events, there are plenty coming
up in the fall and I want youall to stay tuned because I have
our social I call it a socialdirector or the shenanigans
director, but emily salerno isgoing to be on in the next
couple of weeks and she is goingto talk all things events
because fall is coming and it'spacked full of stuff.
(35:40):
She's getting ready to get intobusy season.
We want to make sure y'all knowwhat's going on.
So with that, thanks again.
Michaela, Matthew, Thomas y'allare always fun to have around.
Thanks for joining me today andfor all the work that you do to
help our community thrivethrough Parks and Rec, so
important and not going to lie,I learn something new every time
I talk to you, so thanks forhaving us, Of course.
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Of course you can view the fullfall and winter activities
guide and register for ourprograms anytime on our website.
That link will be in the shownotes, and be sure to follow the
city's social media pages forupdates, highlights and
reminders.
We'll be back soon with moreconversations about life in
Milton, but until then, I'mChristy Weeks and thanks for
listening to Milton in Maine.
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Whether you're a resident, alocal business owner or just
curious about our city, this isyour front row seat to what
makes Milton special.
Hey, everyone, welcome back toMilton in Maine.
I'm your host, christy Weeks,the communications manager for
the city of Milton.
Today's episode is all about fun, connection and community,
because the new Parks andRecreation Activities Guide for
Fall and Winter is officiallyout.
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Whether you're new to Milton ora longtime resident, there's
something for just abouteveryone.
In the latest lineup, I'mjoined by three of the amazing
individuals who make ourprograms possible Michaela Burke
she's our Parks and RecSpecialist.
Matthew Graney, recreationCoordinator.
And Thomas Rhodes, our Parksand Recreation Program
Supervisor, and we're going totalk all about what's new,
(01:11):
what's backed by popular demandand how to get involved.
So, whether you're looking fora new activity for your child,
wanting to connect with otheradults in the community or just
trying to stay active thisseason.
This episode has you covered.
So, everybody, thank you somuch for being here, thanks for
having us Of course, happy to behere.
You've all been here before,Matthew.
I know you're a little far offthe mic there, but you're going
(01:32):
to, we're going to, we're goingto get you.
Say hi to everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Hello everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right.
So, um, we've had you all onbefore, but I want to take about
a hot minute just so you cankind of give us a quick history
of the part you play in Parksand Rec, because there's a lot
of you over there and I knowthat because I share a floor
with you and everybody has suchspecific talents and energy that
(02:01):
they bring to the program.
I think it's really importantto remind everybody and for
those that are are new what'sgoing on in the Parks and Rec
Department.
So, michaela, let us knowwhat's going on.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I'm the Parks and Recreation Specialist.
I've been here about threeyears.
I do a lot of random things.
I do some administrative tasksfor our department.
I help with events.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
If we need a building painted or something like that,
I'm the one who goes and gets.
Oh, so I can call you when Ineed help.
Let's see, I believe Tom calledyou the Swiss army knife I'll
do your bathroom for a hundredthousand dollars.
Oh yeah, my bathroom's not thatbad.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Thanks, anyway, I'll put you on the list.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'll put you on the list, Thomas.
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Nothing much Happy to be here again.
Yeah, so my title is the parksand Recreation Program
Supervisor.
More specifically, I deal withthe city's athletic program
providers, work with them,oversee the contracts.
Very important task that I haveis overseeing the field space
and allocating field space toour different programs.
As you know, we have a lot ofthem and we're a little bit
(03:01):
short on field space.
So, yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That's what you do.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You make it sound so easy, but I feel like your job
would be like if I had to fillin for someone.
Yours is like the last job Iwould want to fill in for
because it sounds so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, there's a talent to balancing schedules
like that and, like you said, wehave a lot of programs,
programs and there's a lot ofthings that we offer in
conjunction with othermunicipalities in field.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
space is a thing absolutely yeah so I don't want
your job either fortunately, Idon't have to create the
schedules, but I just got tomake sure our teams are in the
right spot at the right time oohright on Matthew.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
yes, my name is Matthew.
I'm the recreationalcoordinator here for the city of
Milton.
If you're in Parks and Rec, youdo a lot of jobs Like it's not
just one, you don't really haveone job, it's a lot.
So with me it's a non-sportsprogramming.
Also, it's the rentals for ourfacilities that we have.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And we'll get into that, because I really want you
to touch in on all the availablespace that we have.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So and then also as well too, I oversee the like the
summer camp, so it's going onright now Also.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I've been here in Milton for it'll be three years
in August.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It just feels like it's flown by.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, well, y'all are , and we covered this in one of
the episodes.
Y'all are relatively newgrowing department, like a
handful of years ago, less thanfive, it was like two or three
of you and now there's six ofyou and interns.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, that's correct, we've got interns as well.
But you're correct, there wasjust two of us it was Tom and
myself several years ago, andfortunately we've added to the
team.
Yeah, that's correct, we've gotinterns as well.
But you're correct, there wasjust two of us it was Tom and
myself several years ago, andfortunately we've added to the
team.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, no, it's a lot of fun up here.
I'm not going to lie, Iwouldn't want to be anywhere
else, but up here, me and mynosy self jumping in the middle
of your meetings.
So let's start off.
Let's talk about what is newthis season, because you guys
just pushed out this brand newfall winter activities guide and
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it is full of things.
What's new?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
well, I don't have a lot of new going on, but, um,
we're continuing with ourthriving athletic programs.
We're looking forward to a busyfall season, um, you know,
stacked with all of our youthopportunities, anything from
baseball and basketball,lacrosse.
We also have some adultopportunities as far as soccer
and our baton program.
So, yeah, we have a lot ofthings going on in the athletic
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department.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And those continue to be very robust programs that
come back every year and seem tocontinue to grow.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, that's correct.
Like we touched on before,we're busting at the seams as
far as it goes on field space.
But yeah, we've always-.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Hang on, Deerfield's coming.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Exactly, we've always got room for more participants,
but our programs definitelycontinue to grow season to
season.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So I'm guessing that's why, when we say register
early space limited, itliterally means space is limited
, jump on it, jump on it oh, Iwould really encourage.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
If you have kids in that age bracket where they're
going to be doing sports, signup for our email newsletter,
because thomas does a reallygreat job of he'll have this
whole chart in there of you knowthis sport registration opens
on this date and so it's hard tokeep track of that stuff on
your own if you're notsubscribed to our newsletter, I
mean I missed.
I even work in this departmentand I have missed registration
(06:30):
dates before and had to go tolike I-9 sports.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Come and talk to me because I do your newsletter.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's coming.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You guys do a great job gathering all the
information for people to knowand keeping them up to date on
what's new and how to getregistered.
I mean there's 8,000opportunities and you guys do a
good job at reminding.
Plus Matthew's favorite helikes flyers.
I love flyers love flyers,flyers and signs, but you know
what it works and when you'vegot great programming.
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That's why they do well.
What do you have new coming up?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, yeah, so so far in the summertime, the
summertime, we're trying to addsome new and some exciting
programs.
I will say majority of the newones are not in this upcoming
guide because obviously with theguide it takes months of
planning and also printing aswell too.
So fortunately those onesweren't in the guide.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But they're still going to be available in the
fall.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah correct, those ones weren't in the guide, but
but they're still going to beavailable in the fall.
Yeah, correct.
So obviously we do have the theprograms that are in our guide
currently, like the kid create,which is the art classes for
kids, we have the art for ronnie, yeah, by teens and also with
adults, and then also as well,too, we have the baby suit boot
camp classes, and then we havethe yoga classes as well and the
bombay jam for FitnessCurrently, right now, we have a
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couple new programs that are notin there, but they are going.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well, tell us what they are.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We have the Keto Kinetics, which it's not
official yet, but they'll behoping to start in the fall.
It's kind of like a wholeintroduction to sports for the
toddler age, because currentlywe have the Toddler Tuesday
program, which is a freeoffering that Michaela does an
awesome job of doing, but wedon't have really any programs
besides Tyler Tuesday.
So I spoke with a lot ofparents.
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For example, there was thishusband and wife that came in
and they were like hey, we'removing to Milton, what are some
programs that you have for theTyler age?
and I was like fortunately, allwe really have is the Tyler
Tuesday right now, but we'reworking on adding the a couple
new programs.
So we have the kiddo kinetics.
Um, we have this music classfor the toddler age that is
starting up in August as well,and then also we have the kids
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yoga, which is kind of like ameditation and kind of yoga
program listen.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
If I would have thought when my kids were little
that they were gonna to dosomething like yoga, I'd have
shoved them in there.
That was not on the books atthe Weeks family.
Those kids were mm, mm-mm.
What do you mean?
Take a deep breath.
They were too busy yelling atme.
Breathe, child.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I will say yoga is awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It's fabulous yeah my kids loved doing story time and
yoga at the library when theywere little, when we lived in
Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's probably why your kids are more mellow than
mine.
Mine are super high strung.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And then we have our catalog where you can go on the
website.
You have the youth programs,you have the adult and the teen
programs kind of listed together, and then you have toddler like
like.
The Todd programs are listed aswell too on there.
So it has the different ageranges.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It has all the different tabs at the top
outdoor recreation.
You've got.
What do we call it?
We call it Outdoor Academy, nowthat kind of stuff.
There's a whole bunch of them.
It's actually pretty easy tonavigate once you get in there
and select the type of programyou're looking for, because
Thomas has his athletics.
You have a lot of yourprogramming and they're based on
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art or, uh, yoga or whatever.
It is so easy to navigate andwe'll kind of get into those
details towards the end.
So, um, I'm going to ask any ofyou guys feel free to answer as
you wish what?
What's the most popular, mostrequested program that we have?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
good question like non-athletic any, I don't care
any of them I would say ourbaseball program um just by the
sheer number of participants.
It has and it's continued togrow shocking baseball in
georgia being popular so they're, we're definitely looking,
looking forward to someadditional field space, uh, to
spread them out a little bit,but as far as numbers go, it
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would be youth baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And what are the age ranges on that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We've got everything from our mini hitters which is
three and four-year-olds that'smy favorite age to watch
baseball.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh my gosh, it's so cute.
They'll run the wrong directionor they'll be halfway to the
next one and then they'll juststop and look at the clouds or
something I'm pretty sure oneand then they'll just stop and
like look at the clouds orsomething I'm pretty sure so
cute.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I have a photo of my middle son squatted down in the
outfield because that's hisskill set.
Was the outfield?
Um, because we knew the ballwas never going out there.
They're slick man drawn in thedirt.
That was about as much fun ashe got.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Baseball was not his initial skill set but yeah,
we've got um, you know, aprogram for this is like okay,
thanks, we've got a program,obviously miniators for little
guys and girls and um play all.
The way you know they can learnthe game and play all the way
into high school through that'sawesome.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I love that.
Baseball is great sport.
I did like to watch it.
I'm just never one that couldplay softball.
I'm not a team sport, kind ofgal, individual sports.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
My kids have done several of these.
My 7-year-old son.
He's in Hopewell Baseball andhe loves it.
He did basketball and he didflag football with I-9.
But I feel like the fast sportswhere you're just running back
and forth, back and forth, youjust can't do it.
But baseball where, like, eachperson goes up and gets their
own turn, that's more his speed.
My daughter's in AYSA, sheloves it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
The Alpharetta Youth Softball Association.
So they practice at North Park.
She's done softball since shewas in preschool.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's the other thing that I found really
shocking in Georgia is howpopular softball is down here.
I mean a lot of our people Iknow, through pageants.
When their kids aren't on stage, they're literally playing
softball and they're they'rehitters man.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
They are competitive.
A lot of respect for that.
I love it.
Yeah, I would like to add, uh,you know why.
We've got plenty of kids on ourfields.
We also have some opportunities, you know, on the courts as
well Our basketball program, ourwinter basketball program.
We are using every inch of gymspace that we can possibly use
in the city of Milton.
That is available.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
We've even, you know, moved out and, you know,
conquered a little territory inAlpharetta, just because we need
the space that one I thoughtwas really cool because max did
that and sometimes they would goto shoot 360, which is an
incredible facility.
It's really cool is it just abunch of basketball courts and
it's courts and they have likethese big screens and like all
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these sectioned off areas andyou can be practicing and the
screen gives you you can dodifferent options and it gives
you all the kinds of feedback.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I don't know it looks yeah, yeah, it looks really
cool.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, we're definitely very fortunate to
have built a relationship withwith shoot 360.
Cool, but yeah, while I'mtouching on our court sports
here, you know our tennisprogram is busting at seams as
well, so we're looking forwardto getting some additional.
And is that all ages?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's as well.
So we're looking forward togetting some additional.
And is that all ages?
That's, we've got youth andadult, youth and adult?
Yeah, correct, I'll tell you.
When I first told my friends incolorado that we were moving,
they're like you've got to learnto play tennis.
I go listen myself.
Does not navigate a court quickenough.
It's just not my thing.
I have all the respect in theworld for it.
I wish I knew how to playtennis, because I think it's a
very my thing.
I have all the respect in theworld for it.
I wish I knew how to playtennis because I think it's a
very cool social game yeah,agree, even now it's pickleball
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now, I don't know.
I think I had this discussiononce before with me and tom.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, I don't need to tie one of one of his arms
behind his back he cheats?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm sure he cheats just out of height.
Someday maybe I'll learn how toplay pickleball.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I haven't even played it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You haven't no, then why are you telling me I've got
to play pickleball?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Because every area, every place I've lived, at every
job I worked, a pickleball wasinvolved at some point.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's hilarious and I love that.
The courts are starting to popup everywhere and it's this
whole again another socialcircle.
That's, the courts are startingto pop up everywhere and it's
this whole again another socialcircle that's what sports are.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
When you get old like me.
It's social, but also as welltoo.
Just being parks and rec andhaving parks and facilities and
just seeing the fields or thewhere the space is being used
for programming, it's a.
It's an awesome feeling thatyou see the registrations go
through and stuff like that andthen you see the programs happen
.
So it's at the tennis courts,at the baseball fields football
fields or at community place orBethel Community Center or at
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the Milton Community Center.
It's really cool to see.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, you know, because we talk about sports and
all these different activitiesand camps for kids and stuff.
But really all of the programsthat we offer, whether it's
sports, non-sports, whatever itis, it builds community and it
really connects people with thecity of Milton, but it connects
them to each other and that's soimportant and I think we're
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lucky that we have a smallenough town, big enough, but
small enough that that's stillrelatively a feasible goal to
set yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Sometimes my kids will walk into some of these
programs and they'll be like, ohit's so-and-so from my class,
like my son, my seven-year-olddid the play well one and he
walked in and some of hisclassmates were in there and he
got to make new friends too, andI love that play well, your
your lego thing.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I think it's the coolest thing.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I just wouldn't want to pick all the legos up yeah,
he's like obsessed with legosand they have like a minecraft
theme pokemon wizarding world sohe had a lot of fun there.
And then my youngest son and mydaughter did kid create and
they made a lot of really cuteart in that one.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Can I be honest, where does your kids art go?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It is actually displayed in my living room,
unless some of it might be goingin the trash soon, but it has
been displayed for like a year.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I have an entire plastic tub.
Listen, my kids are 25, 23 and22 and I have an entire plastic
tub of old drawings and cardsand some ceramics.
I have a bajillion tubs.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I like at the end of every school year I'm like can
we throw this out, can we throwthat?
And they'll be like you want tothrow away all this work that I
worked so hard on and then likeand I've seen enough episode of
hoarding buried alive, whereit's like if you throw away
things that they really want,then they can.
That can like trigger something.
So I'm like, okay, I justorganize it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The best I can.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So I have tubs and tubs and tubs of art.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You never know.
I display it the best I can.
One of your children may becomean artist.
My youngest is an artist.
He's an art photography guy.
So I'm hanging on all to this,to this art, because we're gonna
go oh look what he did.
He started here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I won't be surprised if my daughter was an artist.
She took um art with ranny andshe brought the pieces home and
I was like whoa, I was sofloored like my daughter is
starting to like run circlesaround me.
She's better athlete than me.
She can draw better than I can.
She can bake better than I canthat's our goal.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Every time I get the guy and I'm like what is she
going to do now?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
No, she no.
The stuff she makes is reallygood.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Here's the thing.
That's what we're supposed todo.
Our kids are we're supposed toraise our kids to be better than
us, right?
It's a cool thing that theyhave the opportunity to learn
some of the stuff, because Ididn't have all that.
You know where I grew up?
I did gymnastics, that was it.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, I feel like my kids.
I try to get them into as muchas I have the time to do.
I feel like every day afterschool I'm just driving from
point A to point B to point C,but it's so.
I mean, I feel like it's reallyimportant.
Like the art with Randy again,mika, she signed up with her
best friend and so they got togo for a whole month and like do
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all this art together.
It was so cute.
Um, I made my older to takebabysitter boot camp so they can
babysit each other so they canbabysit um babysit my youngest
Speaker 1 (18:30):
yeah, I need it and needs a little supervision, that
one.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I would really like to encourage everyone to sign up
their kids.
It's for kids 10 to 15, matthew, I think, and so my older kids
are home alone.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
10 to 15 for the babysitter boot camp yeah, so
like around that age?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
yeah, it's.
Uh, they have different typesof classes.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, my kids took the three hours so they they
were introduced to cpr and firstday they didn't get certified.
You have to take the five hourworkshop or the three-day camp.
For that.
I was so glad they took itbecause they had like an idea of
like how to give cpr and likehigh milk and stuff.
But they they got to use theactual mannequins and like the
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people who do this boot camphave different size mannequins,
and so I walked in right at theend when my daughter was trying
to get food out of the infantmannequin and she's so kind and
gentle and sweet and she wasjust like tapping the mannequin
and I was like no, no, no, mika,if someone's choking, you're
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like thumping, like don't beafraid to leave a bruise and
with the cpr I was like, don'tbe afraid if you're doing it
correctly, the ribs are breakingunder your hands, and she was
horrified and I was like no, ifyou survive, you can heal your
broken bones, but if you aren'tdoing cpr correctly, you know
you're not going deep enough andyou're not really doing it
right and they don't live.
You can't recover from that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So well, just make sure they don't practice on each
other here.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Let me try this on you, no if you have a kid in
that age range, I would highlyrecommend you sign them up for
that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah.
So, matthew, you, you had aprogram start over the summer.
Uh, romans, kicks and tricks,right?
Yeah, I'm a big martial artsfan.
I think it's amazing for kids,my children, they all took some
version of it, and my middle sonused to bribe my daughter let
me practice a headlock on youbecause he liked jujitsu and
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she's like, oh, nick, and he'slike, just like twice it was
chaos at my house.
But I do love some good martialarts.
I think it's a really goodthing for them to learn as far
as that.
And wrestling Wrestling isanother big sport that I love
and we don't have wrestling.
It's not much here.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We don't directly have wrestling but we do
advertise in the activitiesguide for the youth wrestling
program around the city which isout of Cambridge.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh is it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Now they've brought in Milton as well.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So there is, you know , cambridge and Milton, youth
Wrestling, one of the greatestsports ever, and the reason I
love it is because it is whenyou win, it is your win, when
you lose, it is your loss.
I mean, there is nothing else,but it's a great sport.
I love it.
I'm a big fan of all sports.
What else you got in the sportsrange over there?
You said you have patonk foradults we do.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It's probably our newest athletic program.
So the atlanta patonk leagueapproached the city just looking
for space, looking forsomewhere that they could play.
They already had it mapped out.
They have some greatrepresentatives.
Yeah, their interest was in theoverflow parking lot at bell
memorial park which, if you'refamiliar with bell park, you go
from all the paved parkingspaces at the park and then in
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the back is our overflow parkingwhich is all gravel which maybe
gets used a few times a year,sure.
So they approached us with theidea to partner up and needed
somewhere to play and we kind ofjumped all over it and all
learned a little bit about thetalk got out there.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So the gist of it, is it anything like?
The first thing comes to mindis like bocce ball.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It's uh, yeah it's.
That's an easy way probably toenvision it but, the game
definitely definitely differs.
It's a french game, but yeah,they get out there at least one
saturday per month and they alsorun some introductory classes
that's cool as well, so hey ifyou're going to pickleball, you
can patonk yeah
Speaker 3 (22:16):
one time, when this was probably two and a half
years ago, I went to New YorkCity for like a weekend and we
stumbled upon one park that waskind of like a French style park
and they were playing patonk.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's hilarious and I was just like I know what.
That is Not going to lie.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'd never heard about it until I got here and started
making all your stuff.
It's everywhere and, uh, bellpark has actually hosted the
national batonk tournament wowso we had people fly in from all
over uh to visit our city andplay out in our parking lot, so
that was a very yeah, very coolthing for us and I imagine we'll
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probably host again.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's amazing.
I did not know that.
Is this a fall type sport or isthis a year round thing?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
They're Saturdays.
They call them the Saturdaychallenge days.
They typically meet for theduration of the year, about once
a month, but as far as theirintroductory classes, they offer
a spring and a fall offer.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
That's really cool Right on month, but as far as
their introductory classes, theyoffer a spring and a fall offer
.
That's really cool right on.
So, matthew, we is first.
Before I move on, do we haveany other programs that we want
to make sure that we mention inhere, because I mean that's a
multi-page book, I mean, asidefrom Michaela's?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
yeah, I have a toddler Tuesday, starting back
up August 12th, and I'm going tomake it a little longer.
In the morning it used to be9-11, I'm going to make it 9-12
so people have a little extratime to play.
And then there's still theafternoon session from 3-5.
And then Book Club is goingstrong.
We meet 6-8pm one Wednesday amonth, usually at the Community
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Center at the Milton City Parkand Preserve, although if you
want to come, I would registeronline so I have your email and
I can give you all theup-to-date locations.
That's cool.
And the next day is July 30thand we're reading the 22 Murders
of Madison May by Max Berry.
And then my last program, wehave Mahjong.
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We do it Mondays from two tofour and Thursdays from 10 to 12
at community place right hereat city hall.
Yeah, and you need your owncard, but you don't have to go
out and buy your own Mahjong set.
So that game's addictive isthere's a lot of different
places you can go play in thecity really that's.
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That's what we offer here atcity hall are you a mahjong
player?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I can sort of play, I'm not great, I feel like it's
a thinking game.
Yeah, yeah, it's like a puzzle,oh, some like puzzles maybe I'm
an independent Mahjonger.
You don't have to play on ateam, do you?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
No, it's four people at each table and you're just
playing for yourself.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's awesome.
It's addictive.
I love that, and I think theSenior Center has some Mahjong
things going on.
We just started.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
One of my book club ladies taught people at the
senior center the past threeMondays, so that was really cool
.
We had 12 to 16 people come outevery day.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That's awesome.
Before we go any further, Iwant to make sure we are going
to do an entire episode on thesenior center.
We have a.
There is a ton of programmingout there.
They do such a great job andeverybody here works hard on it.
So I we can kind of touch on itjust real lightly, but I really
want a full episode on thesenior center because it's very
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cool.
Any takers?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
So senior services North Fulton they have buses
that will take people there.
You have to be 60 years old andlive in Oh'm almost there I can
almost go city hall over I'mgoing and they have a lot of
different activities during themorning and then they feed you
lunch and then the bus takes youhome.
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But we're trying to start upsome afternoon programming
mahjong.
We have, uh, teen tech help afew days of summer.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well, that's cool because you you provide a
calendar for the newsletterevery month and we make sure
that we throw that in there.
So the easiest way for peopleto find out what's going on out
at the senior center is to signup for those emails, and we'll
be sure to give those all thosedetails and how, where to find
it and how to do it at the endof the episode, because it's
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unbelievable how muchinformation y'all push out every
month.
So, matthew facilities we haverentables yeah almost like a
lunchable yeah, almost likeLunchable.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I haven't had a Lunchable in years.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, it's the quick easy charcuterie board.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I know I love Lunchables.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Okay, go Sorry.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But yeah, but you're right, you're actually making me
hungry now.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
We'll bus you over to the senior center.
You have to wait a littlelonger than I do.
You're only 25 years away.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You've got to wait 25 years.
I get to go in the next five,so I'll send you a letter.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, facilities.
So we have a lot of facilitiesthat you can rent for birthday
parties, baby showers, weddings,even weddings, even weddings.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Really, We've had two weddings at Broadwell Pavilion.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I think we had two weddings in the past over at
Broadwell.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
See, we're surprised no one has had a wedding at the
Milton City Park and Preserve,because it has a beautiful event
lawn and there's plenty ofspace inside.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I've had meetings and conversations with people, but
they never followed through withit.
But I definitely showed peoplearound the facility, potential
wedding over there.
But yeah, it's a nice facilityit is a very nice facility and I
will say all the facilitieshere are really nice and they
kind of fit the style of Miltonas well too.
But yeah, just speaking aboutBroadwell with those weddings,
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the person who actually did thewedding actually sent me videos
of kind of what it looked likeand it was like they decorated
the whole pavilion with lightsand stuff like that and it
turned out to be a really asuccessful rental for them and a
lot of people were veryimpressed.
Also, with the Milton CommunityCenter, we have birthday
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parties, we have familygatherings, we had graduation
parties over there if you wantto do a graduation party plan in
advance, because that's prettypopular in may yes, you are
correct, yeah, because correctyeah the last three years, I
will say in may.
Every weekend in may has beenfully booked with some type of
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graduation party.
So definitely book in advance.
So just a heads up.
You can do the applicationprocess.
You can start at six months orless, yeah, from the date.
So just a heads up on that.
So in the past we would receiveapplications in february,
january and march.
So just a heads up on that.
So in the past we would receiveapplications in february,
january and march.
So just a heads up on that.
But yeah, so we have the bravopavilion, we have the milton
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community center and then wealso have the bethwell community
center, which is anothersmaller venues kind of more
quiet, private.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
How many people?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
So that facility has capacity of 55 people.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Oh, it's bigger than I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah, I feel like that one is especially perfect
if you have like a birthdayparty for kids or maybe an
adult's getting their birthdayparty and a lot of family kids
are going to be there becausethere's the playground.
If it rains, you can all beinside.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's a front porch as well, that's a great facility
and it's not expensive.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It's like $50 an hour .
Right, correct, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Resident Milton's.
It's only $50 per hour, so it'sa really good value.
Also, the Bravo Pavilion it'sthe same price as well, too.
For a resident Milton it's only$50 per hour.
And then we also have.
I will say our popular spacefor meetings or for business
events is a community place byCity Hall, so that's a smaller
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kind of like a classroom settingso you can have your seminar or
a majority I will say a lot oflocal people who do retirement
classes.
They prefer community placebecause it's a good location.
It has everything you need.
It has a computer, it has aprojector, it has a screen.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That's awesome I had no idea I'm learning so much.
That's the best part about thispodcast is that I get to learn
so much more.
I mean, everybody gets busy intheir own world and it's.
I had no idea.
I knew we had facilities.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean basics, but that's really cool yeah, and we
also, and and chrissy, I willsay we do have some really cool
features as well too.
So, like at broadwell, if youhave a night rental, we're able
to set lights, so it's a basefor rental.
If you want to have a rentalfrom seven to 10, we can set the
lights around those times, sothey can.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Right on.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Have us dance party, kind of have a rental in the
dark.
Right on Anybody else, haveanything they want to throw in
there, and real quick.
Matthew, how do you book that?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, so it's kind of the same way you actually do
reservations for for ourprogramming.
We have a catalog.
It has has a tab where you cansee the facilities that we all
have, and then we have thecalendars as well too, so you
can see that, the days and timesthat the certain facilities
available and with ourfacilities.
We have application process.
You have to submit theapplication first, and then we
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have to approve it so once weapprove it, if it available then
you're able to make the payment.
It's pretty quick and easy.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So I know, on the dropdown, when you go to our
website wwwmiltongagov and yougo over to the government tab
dropdown into parks and rec,there's a sub menu item in there
that is rent a facility.
Is that correct, correct?
So any of the information thatwe're talking about right now
can all be found in that samemenu.
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There's a slew of information.
Click on a tab If you havequestions or anything.
There are phone numbers andemails attached just about
anywhere.
So they make it really easy foryou to get your questions
answered, get your facilitiessecured or get registered for a
program.
So y'all are very efficient atthat.
Anything else you want toinclude, thomas?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yes, I would like to just give a shout out to Rush
Union.
They are an adult soccerprovider but they also have a
really cool program at theirfacility that the city really
likes to help the market.
It's not a direct affiliationwith the city of Milton but they
do offer the Rush Union MiltonTop Soccer Thunder Program and
that program is our participantsfive to 16 years old with
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special needs.
Oh wow, amazing, really coolopportunity over there at their
facility.
The information is in ouractivities guide.
The information in theactivities guide will point you
in the right direction to get intouch with one of their staff
members so you can sign up.
But they typically play onSundays, have a couple different
time slots.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, it's really really cool what they have going
on over there.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I love that Y'all are really good about inclusive
programming.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I love that.
So if y'all are interested inany of this programming, you
want to get on that email listand sign up so you can stay up
to date on what's new, what'scoming.
Go ahead and take a look at theshow notes and I'll have a link
in there as to where you findthat information and you won't
be disappointed, because thenyou'll know everything that's
going on in Milton and it'll befun and you can patonk or soccer
(33:55):
or mahjong your way into a newcommunity.
So since we have this new parksand rec guide coming out, where
are people going to find it?
I know we've got a digitalversion already loaded on the
website, but if somebody wants aphysical activities guide,
where do they go?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
that's a good question.
Thanks, yeah, that's a reallygood question.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
So yeah, I'm really good at those.
Those are those good questions.
Uh, a really good question.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm really good at those good questions but yeah,
so obviously you can find themat the facilities that we have
here in Milton.
So you can find them in thelobby area here at City Hall.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Also at the Milton Community Center, at the Milton
City Park and Reserves.
You can find that Sometimes youcan find them over at the
police station as well.
But yeah, so we always try topass it out to all facilities
around Milton just to help tryto get the word out.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, easy access.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, because sometimes you have a person who
likes to read something like infront of them instead of on a
laptop or a phone.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Well, listen, if it's not attached to my refrigerator
, I'm going to forget about it.
So if there's anythingimportant, it's going to be
magneted to the side of myrefrigerator, because I have to
see it.
But I'm a little old school onthings like that.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
No, I love paper.
I'm a paper person.
I don't like doing stuff on thecomputer.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's really easy to forget.
I have to print it off and readit.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
And we'll always have a box full at all of our city
events.
Oh yeah, definitely pick one up, yep yep.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Speaking of city events, there are plenty coming
up in the fall and I want youall to stay tuned because I have
our social I call it a socialdirector or the shenanigans
director, but emily salerno isgoing to be on in the next
couple of weeks and she is goingto talk all things events
because fall is coming and it'spacked full of stuff.
(35:40):
She's getting ready to get intobusy season.
We want to make sure y'all knowwhat's going on.
So with that, thanks again.
Michaela, Matthew, Thomas y'allare always fun to have around.
Thanks for joining me today andfor all the work that you do to
help our community thrivethrough Parks and Rec, so
important and not going to lie,I learn something new every time
I talk to you, so thanks forhaving us, Of course.
(36:02):
Of course you can view the fullfall and winter activities
guide and register for ourprograms anytime on our website.
That link will be in the shownotes, and be sure to follow the
city's social media pages forupdates, highlights and
reminders.
We'll be back soon with moreconversations about life in
Milton, but until then, I'mChristy Weeks and thanks for
listening to Milton in Maine.
Thanks for listening to Miltonin Maine.
(36:23):
We hope this episode gave youfresh insights into what makes
our city so special.
Stay connected and don't missan episode by subscribing to
this podcast on your favoriteplatform and following us on
social media for all updates.
And, of course, if you want tolearn more about the city, visit
us online at wwwmiltongagov forresources, news and upcoming
(36:46):
events.
Until next time, thanks forbeing part of the conversation
and we'll see you on the nextMilton in Maine.
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