Are you looking for an easy outdoor activity to enjoy as summer winds down? Gather your family and friends for a game of nature Bingo in your parks! Print out these cards, drive or walk to a CWPD park, and…
Tricks of the Pollination Trade
In most plants, offspring grow from seeds. Flowers are a plant’s mechanism for producing those seeds. To do so, flowers must fertilize the female reproductive cells (ovules), located within the pistil, with male reproductive cells, contained in pollen produced by…
Queen of the Creek
You may be familiar with the phrase “a snake in the grass,” an unflattering term for a sneaky person. In the CWPD parks, though, you are just as likely to encounter a snake in the bush, or a snake in…
Centerville Noon Optimists Donate Toward Accessible Parks
On the heels of a $25,000 donation to the Centerville-Washington Park District’s (CWPD) new Yankee Park playground, the Centerville Noon Optimist Club (CNO) recently announced an additional $20,000 donation to help make the community’s playgrounds more accessible. Their generous donation…
New Park Commissioner Appointed
Jason Riley has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Board of Park Commissioners of the Centerville-Washington Park District. He will begin his first year of appointment as the Secretary of the Board. Mr. Riley is the 19th…
Flowers with Three-part Harmony
April and May are prime time for woodland wildflowers in Southwest Ohio. Among the dozens of species that bloom through the spring months—spring beauties, bloodroot, Virginia bluebells, trout lilies, May apples, and many others—some of the easiest to recognize are…
Yankee Park Playground Grand Opening
We are celebrating the new playground at Yankee Park with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 12 at 4:30 p.m.! Last year, we presented three potential playground design concepts to the community. More than 600 people responded to the…
2021 Annual Report Available
The Centerville-Washington Park District (CWPD) 2021 Annual Report is now available. Discover all of the exciting things that happened last year in your community’s BIG backyard! If you have any questions, please contact us at 937-433-5155 or mail@cwpd.org. We’re looking…
One Picture, So Many Questions!
Spring is such a beautiful season. Color returns to the landscape, and birdsong fills the air. Even a late dose of winter sometimes just adds to the enchantment. In April 2021, at the peak of redbud flowering, a nighttime storm…
Pine Squirrels Love Walnuts
The chatter is unmistakable. All winter long, the woods have been full of American red squirrels, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus. According to Wikipedia, red squirrels are one of three species known as “pine squirrels,” and they are “widely distributed across North America…