Fall may still feel far off in the Alabama heat, but for Homewood Parks and Rec, it’s already game time.

Flag football and volleyball are coming online. Basketball is looming. Uniforms are ordered. Coaches are queued. And somewhere, in between emails and field layouts, a few staffers are still wrangling lifeguard shifts to keep the pools covered through the last blast of summer.

“We put a ton of work into getting the seasons ready,” said athletic coordinator Ben Haskins. “Kind of the whole point of our job is to make sure kids and parents and everyone participating in the rec sports and everything we do, they don’t have to worry about anything. They can just show up and have fun.”

That seamlessness is the point. For Homewood’s Parks and Rec team, the goal is simple: kids and parents sho

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