3900 Wildlife Way, Cleveland. Explore 18 reservations spanning more than 23,000 acres with more than 300 miles of trails, eight golf courses, eight lakefront parks and a nationally-acclaimed zoo.

Pine Ridge Education Center, where the PROMISE program is housed, is a bustling, friendly place. When I visited last October, kids and their parents waited for appointments in the front office, which was decorated with gigantic, candy-colored blowups from the Dr. Seuss book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” Most of the high school students were there for fighting or marijuana possession. In one class I attended, they worked in clusters to answer questions about substance addiction. In a room across the hall, middle school children plugged missing words into sentences on the blackboard about self-esteem and bullying.

Runcie looked increasingly exhausted. His own children had received death threats at their schools or jobs. Over the years, he had taught himself to cope with trauma: As a child, his mother had been shot in the face in a hate crime while he sat beside her on their front porch. In Chicago, 300 to 400 students in his district were shot every year. “You need to find ways to create positive things out of tragedy,” he said, “or you go around creating more tragedy.” The idea of responding to the Parkland shooting by throwing the book at students for offenses that didn’t endanger school safety struck him as morally wrong. “If that’s what we’ve gotta do,” he said, “then I’m just not gonna do this work.”

The Element seating system is perhaps my top pick for both pedaling and actively hunting from. It’s a ridiculously spacious and highly adjustable seat design that provides a TON of room to shift around and lean back. The seat is furthermore positioned nice and high above the water for enhanced visibility. The Element seat also slides backwards and forwards super easily which allows you to maximize your deck space when lining up to shoot or relaxing and then adjust back to the best position for pedaling the boat when it’s time to move.

“If we can't bring New Yorkers to the French Riviera, we'll bring the French Riviera mindset to New Yorkers,” said a company spokesperson.

A blustery day did not stop families from strapping on their helmets and embarking on a 15-mile bike ride from Moscow to Troy on Saturday as part of Fondo on the Palouse.

Witt's Woods & Greens built this award-winning boat dock and boat house with the CAMO Deck Fastening system.

Amanda Bakker makes her way through a sea of volunteers:  teens with shovels digging post holes, experienced construction workers piecing together wood and moms gently laying mosaic tile on a wall.  They’re all here working on the vision Bakker and her husband Shawn had about a year ago to build a fully inclusive playground where their two-year-old daughter Tatum could play with her brother and sister. Tatum was born with Spina Bifida and uses a wheelchair.   “You know you have a plan and a vision and an idea, and when you start seeing it come together it’s just this amazing, overwhelming sense of pride in our community,” said Amanda looking at the 200 or so volunteers who showed up to help on Wednesday.

I didn't think I could out-do the previous list, but I think it's clear that I did. There is a lot more stuff mentioned here, all of it carefully researched and chosen. I hope you have fun going through the items — and maybe you'll find some ideas for your Christmas gifts among them. If you have questions about any of my picks, let me know.

Berical also likes Lovevery’s play gym, which was designed by child developmental experts and features a removable overhead gym made of sustainably sourced wooden legs and accessories like an organic cotton Montessori ball, a wooden batting ring, and a teether, all washable. “It’s comfortable for the baby and there’s a lot of clever developmental aspects to it,” he says. “It’s just a good-looking and well-designed piece of equipment for your child.”

Having your eyes on the sky as well as the horizon is of course a huge part of hunting waterfowl. Spotting groups of birds, identifying species as they approach and surveying the landscape in general all calls for a nice pair of binoculars.

"We came here to Singapore because we wanted to find a place that looks like the future. There is no other place that combines incredible architectural marvels with the integration of nature, in which greenery is integrated with modernism," Lisa Joy, co-creator of the series, remarked.