Category Archives: Sports

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

Development News January 2022

A rendering of the Rock Gym east facade.

• Rock Gym at Peterkort center
• No news from Milltowner
• Thompson Crossing subdivision
• Saltzman Retirement Community

Park News August 2021

elslie stuhr center

• THPRD offering monthly pass sales starting August 16
• THPRD Fall Native Plant Sale by pre-order only
• Elsie Stuhr Center preparing to welcome back 55 and better community
• THPRD Fall Registration opens August 28

Development News July 2021

• Sunset Athletic Club’s new facility is coming along!
• Dinihanian Farm update

THPRD News June 2021

Cedar Mill Greenway Trails

• THPRD News
• Walk with Me—Cedar Mill
• Volunteering at THPRD
• Celebrate National Trails Day at Tualatin Hills Nature Park
• Community Garden Work Party at Cedar Hills Park
• RISE Youth Leadership Program is Now a Year-Round Opportunity!
• THPRD is Now Hiring!
• Updated Face Covering Guidance at THPRD