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Meet your new parks coordinator

By Charles Bolinger Hearst Newspapers

EDWARDSVILLE — Caneé Brown is the Edwardsville Parks and Recreation Department’s newest employee.

An Edwardsville native, Brown started working as the department’s coordinator on March 16.

“I’m excited to be here,” she said. “Everyone’s been awesome and I’m ready to start working with youth sports and adult recreation.”

Her supervisor, Trevor Spohr, said it was always in the plan to hire another, full-time parks employee when he and the rest of director Nate Tingley’s staff came on board early last year.

“When I met Caneé, she was a captain in a kickball league,” Spohr recalled. “She told me, ‘I love parks and recreation and I have a heart for Edwardsville.’”

Spohr told her that his department would have a position open later this year and Brown asked him to remind her when it was open because she was definitely interested. She later applied and during the telephone interview with Spohr and special events coordinator, Trina Vetter, he said her extroverted nature and her directness, plus the fact that she is a resident, were all qualities Spohr sought in his coordinator.

“There was a spark,” he recalled. That spark did not diminish as the interview process progressed to include human resources director Amanda Tucker and parks director Tingley.

“She brings an energy and passion that I wanted,” Spohr said.

Spohr and Brown share an office but they’re not in it all day together. As coordinator, it’s Brown’s job to oversee the various sports leagues, the Splash Pad in Leon Corlew Park, the SIUE Pool and Plummer Family Park while Spohr handles the administrative and office tasks.

Brown said she previously worked for Federal Express and she has coached youth basketball games, among other youth mentoring opportunities.

When she is not working, she said she enjoys time with family. She and her wife have a son, 10.

Adding Brown gives the parks department five, full-time employees. The others are Amy Baxter, administrative assistant; Trina Vetter, special events coordinator; Trevor Spohr, Parks and Recreation Superintendent; and Nate Tingley, Parks and Recreation Director.