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Indy Zoo makes changes after girl burned on slide
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Zoo will begin testing the temperature of playground equipment more frequently and post additional warnings that surfaces could be hot after a toddler was burned on a slide. Khara Sinclair tells WTHR-TV (http:/...Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Mich. panel recommends state park improvements
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A panel appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder is recommending ways to improve Michigan's state park system. The 16-member group sent its findings to the governor Friday. The report calls for finding new funding sources for parks,...
Tags: State Parks, Executive Branch, Government, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Want to cool off in a lake? Read this first
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY -- Taking a dip in a lake is a summer staple around our area -- but look before you leap -- some lakes in our area are experiencing high counts of something health officials are calling "toxic algae." Seven Indiana lakes have been...
Tags: State Parks, Travel, Bodies of Water, Lakes and Ponds, Tourism and Leisure
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Mary Gibbard Pool splashes re-opening fun 1 to 4 p.m. today
South Bend Tribune Staff ReportFrom their front yard, where the blue blow-up whale sits, Becky Woods and Billy Ewing gaze at the pool at Mary Gibbard Park with the smiles of relieved parents. On Saturday, the pool opens for the summer, and their 11- and 12-year-old sons will race a...Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Jayda: Yes! to rebuilding Belleville Park playground
Nearly a year after Belleville Park's playground burned, City of South Bend officials have decided to rebuild. Construction bids are being accepted for another week, but soon, the park will again be a popular place.
When first-time mom, Jennifer Talboom...Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Mishawaka's mayor thinking ahead to 2033
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterMISHAWAKA -- The city's 200th birthday is just 21 years away, and Mayor Dave Wood aims to start planning for it now. Not for a party, he said, but a vision for how the city should look and operate and "to make this community the most livable it can be."...Tags: Central Park, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Electricity Production and Distribution
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Group calls for study of Ind. Dunes boundaries
PORTER, Ind. (AP) — A national parks advocacy group says the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in northwestern Indiana are confusing. The Times of Munster reports (http://bit.ly/u7qYdW) the National Parks Conservation...Tags: National Parks, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Student from Ill. dies in fall at Ohio state park
LOGAN, Ohio (AP) — A man who fell to his death in an Ohio park has been identified as a student from Illinois who had met up with a high school girlfriend and her family. Hocking County Coroner Dr. Dave Cummin said Tuesday that 18-year-old Purdue...Tags: State Parks, Purdue University, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Students
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Vet thrown from coaster receives military funeral
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A double-amputee Iraq war veteran who was thrown to his death from a western New York roller coaster has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. About 150 friends and relatives were at the historic Virginia cemetery...Tags: Arlington (Staten Island, New York), Amusement and Theme Parks, Theme Park Vacations, Travel, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Search for grizzly connected to hiker's death
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The search for a grizzly bear connected to a hiker's death in Yellowstone National Park continued Sunday, with no word on whether the bear was responsible for a killing a man hiking in the backcountry last...Tags: Michigan, National Parks, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Mishawaka parks board offers superintendent job
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterMISHAWAKA - The city parks board voted Monday to offer the superintendent’s job to a man who, until recently, has worked as a senior director in the city parks department in Alexandria, Va. Roger Blakely still has to respond to the offer. He&...Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Invasive species is threatening Indiana trees
Over 27,000 acres of forest land in Indiana are dead or dying ash trees. It is an epidemic caused by something as small as a pencil eraser — the emerald ash borer. And they have been found in our area.
State researchers have found the beetle...Tags: New York City, Tourism and Leisure, Nature, State Parks, Potatoes
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