Tag: employees

  • The Heart and Soul of King County Parks

    The Heart and Soul of King County Parks

    Disability Employment Awareness Month: King County Parks’ supported employees are ‘the heart and soul of our division’  Parks employee RJT can always be spotted at the Jim Ellis Memorial Regional Park’s Preston Athletic Fields with a smile on his face and a song ready to belt.   RJT, who has worked for King County for…

  • Your King County Parks staff…

    Your King County Parks staff…

    Once a year we get together to celebrate our coworkers for their time served as public servants, and give heartfelt goodbyes to those who are retiring after MANY years of service. We love and appreciate all these folks for all they do – and have done – to keep our parks clean, safe and open. By…

  • Field Notes: Happy Trails to You…

    With the closing of the year, your inbox and social media are likely inundated with lists, reflections, and predictions for the new year. Don’t worry, we’ll get to that stuff later…for now, we want to celebrate some fellow Parkians! This year, we here at Parks said “Happy Trails” to 9 retiring staff members who gave…

  • Field Notes: Employee Appreciation

    Today, we here at King County Parks took a moment and gathered our staff from all corners of the county to celebrate a few of our own. We honored 34 staff members who have given 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 and 5 years of service to King County. You know where this is going.…

  • Field Notes: Celebrating employee service

    This morning, King County Parks’ hard-working staff put down their tools and took up their forks at the annual Employee Recognition breakfast. In addition to celebrating employees who have worked for King County from 5 to 30 years, we also commemorated Evie Newton and Steve Chavey, two long-time employees who are retiring from KC Parks.…