Notes from Town Square: Parks are a year-round job

Parks and Recreation - synonymous with summer fun and lots of sunshine.

However, we are busy all year long. As winter descends upon Green River, citizens head indoors and hopefully to the Recreation Center where it is easy to see that the staff there is busier than ever running leisure programs or preparing for special events. The parks division is not always as obvious, although ever so present.

For the parks staff, the winter months are filled with many tasks. It is this time of year not only for maintaining areas that have no “down season”, like the cemetery and building maintenance, or man...