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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERSTo The Honorable Board of Selectmen: June 30, 2011The Board of Park Commissioners is pleased to submit the following annualreport for the period ending June 30, 2011.The Parks and Recreation Department is responsible for maintaining approximately115 acres of town property, including areas at Kelly Field, AndrewsPark, Mary C. Lane Playground, Shields Park, Gile Road AthleticComplex, Flatley Field, Crane Park, Turners Pond and Town Landing. Ourrecreation programs provide a wide variety of activities year round for bothchildren and adults. We have continued to add new programs and improve oncurrent ones. All recreation related programs offered by the Park Departmentare conducted through our self-supporting revolving account.In FY 2011 the Parks and Recreation Department employed 194 youngadults throughout the year to staff our various Recreation Programs and fieldmaintenance crews.The Parks and Recreation popular Summer Playground Program was heldat Cunningham Park. The Board of Park Commissioners wishes to thank theCunningham Foundation for their support and in particular facility managerMr. Dave Wahlgren. This program ran for 8 weeks, was staffed with enthusiasticrecreation counselors comprised of Milton teens, and was open daily from8:30 to 3:00 p.m. Participants, ages 7-13, were able to enjoy organized sports,games, special events on site, swimming at the park pool, arts and crafts andweekly field trips. The field trips included: the Museum of Science, WaterCountry water park, an all day trip to Canobie Lake Amusement Park, a wet andwild trip to Water Wizz, a knock down trip to Boston Bowl, an exciting safarito the Franklin Zoo, a trip to the Imax Theatre and an action packed day atLazer Zone. Several other special events and activities took place on a daily andweekly schedule as well. Such as: the Paint Ball Competition Day at P&L Paintball(Bridgewater), a weekly movie day, Junior Olympic competition, weeklybirthday parties, Dave and Busters, picture day, the Rain Forest Reptile Show,daily supervised swimming, a Talent Show, a Pinata Party, whiffle ball tournamentsand much more. Total participation for the summer program was 220children.Once again we offered a number of sports clinics throughout the summer.Weekly clinics were offered on the following sports: boys’ and girls’ basketball,softball, Mike Madden Soccer School, boys and girl’s lacrosse, track and fieldand two weeks of golf lessons at Granite Links. Our six-week tennis instructionprogram for children ages 5 – 12 continued to be one of our most popular127