Recreation Department

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Pool & Fitness Center
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The Pool & Fitness Center remains closed until further notice.

Parks & Recreation Mission

• To improve the health and wellness of our community through the provision of programming and facilities that encourage maintaining, an active and fitness-conscious lifestyle.
• To be efficient stewards of the public facilities under our care and keep them clean, safe, well maintained and environmentally friendly.
• To develop new facilities that will improve the quality of life in our community.
• To provide a wide variety of activities that encourage all segments of our population to use their free time in a positive and productive manner.
• To attempt to connect all citizens to our community by offering programs, facilities and special family events that welcome inclusion, and both active and passive participation.
• To make the service to our patrons a high priority by creating user-friendly procedures, and treating them, as we would like to be treated.

Photo: DEM Director Janet Coit (L) presents the grant from the Champlin Foundations to Mayor Charles Lombardi, with Governor Lincoln Chafee (R).

Camp Meehan Grant   Champlin Foundations awarded the Town of North Providence $344,000 in grant funding. The grant includes renovating an existing beach, construction of a kayak and boating center, renovations to an administration and recreational building, parking lot improvements, a storage garage, playing fields, basketball courts and hiking trails.