[Vision2020] Playfield

[Carl Westberg]

"an Angelina Jolie week for Carl"....why just a week?  How about a month?  
February, it's a short month.  Vis-a-vis recreational opportunities for 
Moscow, has anyone contemplated hydroplane races on Paradise Creek?  A 
little noisy, and there'd be some darn tight turns, but think of the 
possibilities.  Or not.  If that isn't a good idea, it's because I'm 
suffering from sleep deprivation, due to my new, 1 year old cat that likes 
to run the Indy 500 around my apartment at 2 in the morning.                 
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                              Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
>To: "James Reynolds" <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com, shawnc at outtrack.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Playfield
>Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:16:41 -0700
>
>Not that I want to be a curmudgeon, or be seen to be agreeing with
>Donovan, but I do believe that this playfield monomania has gotten way
>out of it.  First, because lack of playfields isn't going to lead to
>the collapse of Western civilization.  I know, some kids like 'em, and
>some adults, and it does prevent those people from getting chubbier.
>However, I managed to make it all the way through 45 years of life
>without having the inclination to stroll through a playfield even
>once.  Okay, a well-meaning Uncle did take me to see the Cardinals
>versus the Orioles at the Angel Stadium when I was about 12, and it
>was one of the best naps that I ever had.
>
>My kids, both healthy and athletic who love the gym, have never
>deliberately set foot on a playfield (unless they were visiting the
>swings and slides), nor has my wife, or the majority of my friends or
>family.  And I come from a HUGE family, with loads of relatives.  I'm
>the eldest of nine kids.  My wife is the eldest of seven.  I've seen a
>lot of fat people exiting and entering these allegedly
>health-inspiring playfields, clutching peanuts and hotdogs and sodapop
>in their fat-fingered hands.
>
>Personally, if the local government is going to spend money, I'd like
>to see it spent on stuff that I like.  Such as what, you ask?  How
>about the pedestrianization of the downtown, with a public trolley and
>parking garage, an expanded museum, an expanded library, free Wi-Fi
>for the entire town, a truly adequate covered swimming pool, a free
>gymnasium where I don't have to worry about the cold or the rain,
>sponsorship of a mega-games festival where participants compete at
>everything from Counter-Strike to Quake to Unreal Tournament to Chess
>to Bridge to Backgammon, free classes teaching the elderly how to
>check their e-mail and update their virus checker on their free Wi-Fi,
>sponsorship of a film festival to rival Sundance, encouragement of
>musical forms brought to Moscow that aren't jazz, a soup kitchen, an
>Angelina Jolie week for Carl, re-zoning and compensated relocation of
>downtown businesses so that retailers and banks/estate agents/etc. are
>in geographically separate areas, sponsorship of a week-long ethnic
>food festival so that I can finally get my fill of
>Thai/Vietnamese/Indian/etc food without having to travel to Seattle or
>Spokane, dieticians and trainers in the aforementioned gym, a really
>good 4th of July bash that people come from Spokane and Lewiston to
>see, subsidized dental clinics so that I could afford to go to the
>dentist for the first time in ten years, free lawn mowing and
>snow-shovelling for our elderly residents, roads that are plowed
>within a reasonable amount of time, a subsidized STD/family planning
>clinic, etc., etc., etc.
>
>Ask a random selection of people whether the public coffers should
>support playfields or their own hobbies or interests, and I think a
>lot of people will vote with me.
>
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