Ready to Volunteer?

The La Pine Park and Recreation District are looking for good volunteers! LPRD invites you to learn about the District by attending meetings and asking questions. If you are a resident of the La Pine Park and Recreation District, please consider volunteering your time as a Board Member. Email office@lapineparks.org for more information.

Regular meetings take place every first and third Monday at 6:30pm at the John C. Johnson Building. Click here for agenda.

 

We Love Volunteers!

Your La Pine Parks & Recreation District loves volunteers! Without the volunteerism of the good people in La Pine, we wouldn’t have our youth sports programs, such as basketball, football, soccer and the BB Gun Club. Construction companies such as Northwind Construction have donated labor and materials to help maintain our aging facilities. Businesses such as Hooker Creek have granted the District money to make our after-school program possible. Federal agencies such as the Forest Service have granted monies to secure our historic ranger station on a solid foundation at Rosland Campground. Local government agencies such as Deschutes County have awarded the District money for improvements such as the new playground at Finley Butte. The list goes on, and this is just recent activity!

Without these people to help, (or the dollars to hire them) it stretched the district thin on resources such as answering the phone & booking facilities for events that produce income.

To grow our programs and to rent our facilities, we need volunteers. Anything you are interested in could be applied as a Park District volunteer:

Do you like to garden or landscape?
Do you like to deal with people?
Do you like to work with kids?
Did you ever want to be a journalist?
Do you love La Pine and want to give back?
Are you an expert in some field that you would like to share with others?

If so, you have a lot to offer and can make a difference in our community.

La Pine Parks and Recreation District would love to have volunteers in the following areas, even if it is just one hour per month:

Mowing the lawn at White School Park, John C. Johnson, Finley Butte or Rosland Campground. (We will provide the riding mower and the gas).

Grant writers. There are a lot of grant opportunities out there. We need help to go get them! A good grant could make it possible to lower the cost of our summer and after school programs. It could make it possible to renovate the historic Rosland Ranger Station or the John C Johnson Building. We could even finish the White School Park Building or fix up the Little League fields at Finley Butte Community Center. If you feel we have a need, write the grant request!

If talking to people is your thing, we need volunteers in the Park Office to manage the phones and return messages. Someone to finalize paperwork for facilities rentals. You name it, we need it done!

Are you a hard worker? There is a group that gets together to recycle pop cans for revenue. It's a dirty job, but it's a lot of fun and it brings income to Parks and Rec every month.

LPRD would like to submit an article about what’s going on in the district published in the Newberry Eagle and the Frontier Advertiser each month. Whether you want to write one article or an ongoing monthly article, we can use your help.

Are you an expert photographer? Is your passion crochet? Did you ever teach line dancing or hula?  Whatever it may be, the District would love to talk to you about teaching a program.

Do you have an unused utility trailer you would consider donating to Parks & Rec? Your donation is tax deductible and the district needs a trailer to haul the riding mower to each facility.

Are you a retired naturalist, ranger or scientist? We hope to develop programs at Rosland to explore and educate people about the native plants, trees and animals indigenous to this area.

These are just a few of the things you can help with. Give us a call at 536-2223 or email volunteer@lapineparks.org for more information.

All volunteers and staff are required to comlete a background check.

Click here to view the La Pine Park & Recreation Comprehensive Plan.