RECREATION DEPARTMENT NEWS
Gingerbread Christmas: Cookie Decorating Class
Get into the festive spirit with our Gingerbread Christmas - Cookie Decorating Class! Join us for a fun and creative session where you'll decorate six holiday-themed cookies, perfect for sharing or gifting. We provide everything you need—cookies, icing, and all the tools to create your own edible masterpieces. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned decorator, this class is a joyful way to celebrate the season. Grab a friend, bring your holiday cheer, and let’s make some sweet memories together! Spots are limited, so sign up today and add a little extra magic to your Christmas!
Caregiver Children & Their Elder Parents
Longer life spans mean that, statistically, adult children will spend as much time caring for aging parents as they do for their own children. They both face many challenges as they deal with the emotional, financial and legal aspects of long-term care decisions. These decisions straddle several different arenas that have competing rules and families can face unnecessary emotional and financial costs when they make the “wrong” decision because they did not understand their options. This workshop provides an overview of the factors families should consider for the care and safety of their parent and their assets while protecting the child from parental debts. It covers the essential directives families should have in place to ensure agents are authorized to act for the parent and addresses Medicare and Medicaid rules, care management, guardianship and other factors that can arise when a parent declines mentally or physically.
Let's get your training journey started with the ultimate beginner training course! All breeds, age and experience levels welcome! This course is designed to help you and your dog learn all the basic cues to help you live with a positive relationship of trust and understanding. You will learn cues such as:
- Down, Stay and Place
- Recall (come when called) - One of the most important behaviors you can teach your dog
- Leave It and Drop It
- Walking on a leash and leash handling skills
- Out in public - how to be polite greeting other dogs and humans
- And More!
Dog Basics-Life With Your Canine
This course is to help all dog owners to refine and improve their life with their dogs. As all of my training is, this is about relationship building and getting either your training journey off on the right paw and sorting out all the basics of your daily life with your dog. This course will include training and topics on:
- Mental Stimulation - why is this important and how do we achieve this - fun activities, games and boredom busters that will help you achieve your dogs needs and begin training them without even knowing it!
- Preventing problem behaviors such as resource guarding, separation anxiety, barking, begging for food at dinner time, jumping on guests in home, etc.
- Potty training (as needed per course)
- Handling and grooming basics as well as understanding socialization and what it means
- First steps into Positive Reinforcement training and basic cues including - Sit, Touch, and Focus
CLE Stache Dash: 5K/1M Fun Run-Walk
Join us for Northeast Ohio's Premiere Celebration of the Stache-where your upper lip finally gets the attention it deserves. Can you think of a better excuse to stop shaving? Race bags will be provided to the first 300 that pre-register for the event. Post-race refreshments will be provided. This is a family-friendly event with all proceeds raised benefitting the North Ridgeville Parks & Recreation Department. Online registration ends on Monday, October 28. We hope to see you and your stache on Saturday, November 2.
Interested in running a program? The North Ridgeville Parks and Recreation Department is always looking for new program instructors. Applications can be found under the “Jobs” tab.
