Allen Senior Recreation Center<\/a> will be available for individuals above age 60 to visit, Soto said.<\/p>\nThis initiative allows individuals to experience recreation centers before committing to a monthly membership, said Elissa Malone, assistant director of operations for Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re always keeping our eyes and ears open for opportunities to eliminate barriers where it makes sense,\u201d Malone said.<\/p>\n
The Leap Days program also creates opportunities for community connection.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Recreation] is an opportunity to learn something, to engage with others, to improve well-being, to improve family life, to be a participant in something,\u201d Malone said. \u201cRecreation and parks are essential, not just to a good life, but to a community’s life in general.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark your calendar<\/p>\n
The next Leap Day is scheduled for March 1.<\/p>\n
If the first of the month falls on a day a facility is normally closed, such as Saturday or Sunday, that facility will not participate, Soto said. Leap Day programming will also be unavailable on city holidays.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit the Allen Parks and Recreation department website.<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members can access several Allen recreation centers at no cost once a month, Communications Manager Kristi Soto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[71085,55590,62328,1604,71088,63276,71089,160,162,161,71086,71087,55996],"class_list":["post-176633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-leap-days","tag-allen-news","tag-allen-parks-and-recreation","tag-community-impact","tag-don-rodenbaugh-aquatics-center","tag-events-in-allen","tag-joe-farmer-recreation-center","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-pools-near-allen","tag-stephen-g-terrell-recreation-center","tag-things-to-do-in-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}