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All Parks Deserve Care With Ruffian Tittmann | The Well-Being Report

June 4, 2025

In this episode, Samantha Shaak and Margaret McConnell are joined by Ruffian Tittmann, inaugural Executive Director of the Allentown Parknership, a new, independent, not-for-profit organization formed to support and enhance Allentown's parks and recreation programs. They discuss “thriving and natural world” as vital conditions of health and how green spaces help us all, even if we never set foot in them. Tittmann shares the origins of the Parknership and explains its role as a partner of the City of Allentown. She emphasizes the importance of providing every park in the city with the care it needs so that all communities and neighbors may enjoy them.