Several PNWPA folks will be freezing their asses off today at Seattle’s flagship REI store doing some Parkour outreach on such a busy shopping day. We’ll be braving the cold outside the front doors armed with naught but various flyers and info packets to distribute to the peoples. We’ll be talking about Parkour and the PNWPA’s mission from about 10am-4pm, come say hi and warm us up a bit!
Jeremy and I just had a great meeting with a nice District Crew Chief from Seattle Parks and Rec at Cowen Park. We learned a lot about the inner workings of park maintenance, park history, park volunteering, and the process needed to fund and build a parkour specific play structure.
We’ll now be able to take back the things we learned about Cowen to the WAPK community (what is safe for training and what is not), add more opportunities for volunteer work for our members (in the loose sense of the word since we haven’t opened membership yet), and followup with the Recreation folks to see what sort of classes, events, and structures we could help get going there!
