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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Callinan Sports & Fitness Center Membership Info......... 3-4 Aquatics Pool Schedule & Swim Schedule............................ 14
Preschool & Youth Programs........................................................5-8 Active Adult 55+ Programs.........................................................15-18

Community Center Tot Time.............................................................5 Senior Services..........................................................................................15
Ballet Classes..........................................................................................5-6 Games & Drop In Activities ...................................................... 15-16
Gymnastics.....................................................................................................6 Exercise & Dance Classes......................................................... 16-17
Leaders-In-Training.................................................................................. 7 Senior Transportation Program.....................................................17
National Academy of Athletics Programs...............................8 Special Courses & Events ............................................................... 18
Teen & Adult Programs..................................................................9-13 Senior Prom................................................................................................. 19
Pottery Classes............................................................................................9 What’s Happening in the City........................................................20
Virtual Beginners Spanish Class.................................................. 10 Parks & Facilities Map......................................................................... 21
Pickleball Classes................................................................................... 10 Community Contact List................................................................... 22
Adult Sports (Teams & Leagues).................................................. 11 Spreckels Performing Arts Center........................... Back Cover
Adult Fitness Classes....................................................................12-13

BAGLEY’S BLOG DIRECTOR OF
COMMUNITY SERVICES

Hello, friends. Thank you for taking the time to read this They spent 2 hours with me in Home Goods one
part of our triennial Recreation Guide. For this Guide, I Sunday afternoon picking out bedding, towels, throw
wanted to share a personal/professional experience I pillows, a rug, and wall décor. We had to wait a couple
had through the City’s most recent initiative to address of weekends to decorate the room, and both girls were
homelessness in Rohnert Park, and that is the opening anxiously waiting for that day to come. On the morning
of Labath Landing. of October 23, we spent an hour on site putting the room
What is Labath Landing? A 60-Unit Interim Supportive together. We had a double bed in our room, so we were
Housing community for individuals and couples preparing this space for a couple. The girls shared their
experiencing unsheltered homelessness right here enthusiasm around what it was going to be like the first
in Rohnert Park that officially opened on Monday, time the couple walked into a warm, safe space with a
October 24. Each resident of Labath Landing gets their comfortable bed for the first time in who knows how
own private room that locks, providing privacy and a long.
safe place for themselves and their belongings. They I felt so proud that day, and every day since … that we
can even have their pets. Until now, there have been have a City that has committed to a humane and decent
no interim housing or shelter options available in the path to address homelessness; that we have a City
City. In the first year alone, the 60 rooms at Labath Manager that wanted to be a part of it in a deeper way
Landing will have the capacity to serve over 100 people than just logistics; that I work with a team of other city
experiencing homelessness in the City, prioritizing leaders that wanted to help like I did; that my girls were
those who have been sleeping in Rohnert Park and the genuinely happy to work toward making someone else’s
nearby surrounding area. Labath Landing was made life better; and that there are less people struggling on
possible by a $14.6 million grant from the State of the street today than there was on October 23.
California’s Project Homekey. I hope that if you’re reading this, it inspires you to find
Prior to its opening, the City’s partner in this project, ways to help make someone else’s life better today. I
Dignity Moves, asked for members of the community to hope you make daily decisions to be an active part of
participate in their “Adopt a Room” program. By adopting the reason why they call Rohnert Park, “The Friendly
a room, you were committing to purchasing items for, City.”
and decorating an individual room for the person(s) that
would be moving in. When our City Manager asked if
anyone was interested in participating, I nearly jumped
out of my seat to volunteer. The City Manager, Public
Works Director, and Human Resources Director offered
to fund the purchase of the supplies, and I volunteered
to pick them out and decorate the room.

I was so excited to begin the process and thought that it Cindy Bagley
would be a great experience formydaughter,Annabelle,
age 8, and my boyfriend’s daughter, Madeline, age 15,
to be a part of it. When I presented it to them, they were
over the moon excited to be a part of something so
important to the lives of someone else. They both have
empathetic hearts, and are very socially conscious.

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