Category Archives: Sports

Parks News October 2026

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• Help Design a New Playground
• Coach Youth Fall Sports
• Indigenous Peoples Day Three Sisters Seed Giveaway
• THPRD Appoints Elizabeth Edwards to Board of Directors
• About THPRD
• Want to Get Involved at THPRD?
• Pumpkin Bob
• Women-Only Swim continues at Beaverton Swim Center!
• Jenkins Estate Historical Tour
• Chutes & Ladders Individuals Pickleball League
• Glow in the Dark Family Pickleball
Cedar Hills Rec Center Updates:
• Join us for a Fall Festival
• Women’s Hiking Series–Hike Three
• Pop Up & Play
Conestoga Rec & Aquatic Center Updates:
• Halloween Silly Walk & Dance Party
• Diwali Bazaar
Elsie Stuhr Center Updates:
• Halloween Party
Garden Home Rec Center Updates:
• TR Halloween Dance
Tualatin Athletic Center Updates:
• Monster Smash Pickleball Tournament
• Walk-tober

Parks News June 2026

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• Westside Trail Community Meeting
• Sunset wading pool opens
• Saqsaqa Park coming to North Bethany
• Audit Committee Opening
• Special Olympics of Oregon summer Bocce competition
• Special Olympics of Oregon summer softball
• New Pickleball Facility at HMT Recreation Complex
• Waterhouse Trail repairs
• Bonny Slope Park repairs
• Eid ul-Adha Celebration
• Summer Kick-off Concert and Celebration
• Volunteer to Support TriTogether Triathlon for all abilities
• Cedar Hills Rec Center Updates
• Conestoga Rec & Aquatic Center Updates
• Garden Home Rec Center Updates:
• Tualatin Hills Nature Center
• June Events from Hillsboro Parks and Rec near Cedar Mill

Park News May 2024

• THPRD May News
• May Events near Cedar Mill from THPRD
• May Events near Cedar Mill from Hillsboro Parks and Recreation

Parks News March 2024

recuerdo park

• THPRD News
• March THPRD Events near Cedar Mill
• Volunteer for THPRD events
• Burlington Creek Forest Nature Park update
• Metro Council awards 15 grants to community-designed parks and nature projects

WashCo News February 2024

• County, state consider financial support for Hillsboro Hops stadium
• LUT now administering liquor license applications
• Intel seeking permit for increased air pollution
• Join a Washington County board or commission
• County Strategic Plan update—comments sought

Smashing Barriers, one serve at a time

smashing barriers logo

Two local high schoolers, Rohan Shah (Junior at Sunset High School) and Jiya Mehta (Sophomore at Catlin Gabel High School), have been changing the game of tennis for the last few years. Earlier this year, they founded their youth-led non-profit organization Smashing Barriers, to redistribute new and gently used tennis equipment and host free tennis instruction in underserved areas.

Community News November 2023

headstart preschool

• Adopt a Rabbit
• Register for Sunset Youth Lacrosse
• “Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley” book launch
• Planting party at Leedy Grange
• TVWD Fluoridation Pausing for Construction: December 2023 – Early April 2024
• Viva Village November news and events
• Green Light for Vets
• Free Preschool with Community Action’s Head Start
• Weatherization help
• Apartment Landlord Fire Training

Should Oregon taxpayers subsidize the Hops’ Hillsboro stadium?

hops stadium

The owners of the Hillsboro Hops want the legislature to help build a new home for the team they own.

School News June 2023

• Architect works with Cedar Mill students
• Rock Creek Elementary Indigenous Games
• Local BSD students win national recognition
• Rishab Jain named 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholar
• Sunset High School will soon have a new track!

Park News June 2023

painting a mural

• THPRD Park News
• THPRD’s newest Talking Walls Project celebrates Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage

Summer camps

• Cedar Mill Summer Camp
• Summer camps at Lovegood!
• WashCo Bikes offers Summer Camp and classes

Park News January 2023

• Winter Registration is Open
• Save the Date for Spring Registration!
• Winter Fitness in the Park
• Personal Training Available at THPRD
• Abbey Creek Park—Phase 2 Update: 
• Introducing Capulin (kehp-uh-leen) Park