[Vision2020] Playfield

[Tom Hansen]

Realizing, unfortunately, that any suggestion having to do with spending 
money on education would be considered a waste of bandwidth, I support 
creating the baseball/softball/soccer complex at:

Thompson Park

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


>From: Tom Ivie <the_ivies3 at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Playfield
>Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I love that idea!  It would be easily accessible by vehicle, path, and 
>sidewalk for everyone, but especially children.  Not requiring costly road 
>upgrades.  The trick would be in getting the property owners to work out a 
>deal.  The Thompson property is roughly twice as large as the Clyde 
>property so the city would have to fork over some cash.  You would think 
>that Frank Bennett would probably rather have fields by his house than 
>development though.  Anyone floated the idea of Thompson High School and 
>Playfields?  What a legacy!!!
>
>Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:        v\:* 
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>st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Arnold stated:
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>   “How about putting the park that needs lights somewhere else other than 
>the only place in the city where we cannot have lights on.”
>
>   Yes.  How about the Thompson property?  The amount of money, time, and 
>effort required to convert the Thompson property into a 
>baseball/softball/soccer complex would be far less than required on the 
>property south of the UI Arboretum.  This would also maintain the locale’s 
>“green”ery.
>
>   Thoughts?
>
>   Tom Hansen
>   Moscow, Idaho
>
>     "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of 
>arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to 
>skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body 
>thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"
>
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>   From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com 
>[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
>Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:14 PM
>To: lfalen; James Reynolds; shawnc at outtrack.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Spam] RE: [Vision2020] Playfield
>
>
>   "There should be some sort of compromise here. Put in the lights. Lights 
>are a safety issue also.They do not have to be on all the time. I doubt the 
>the observatory would require no lights every night or that the playfield 
>would need them every night. Work out a schedule that accommodates 
>both."--Roger Falen
>
>I agree Roger. The baseball team can use the lights everyday from 7 AM to 
>7PM and the Observatory can have them off from 7PM to 7AM.--This would be 
>fair.
>
>Of course, when you have people waiting years to use the observatory and 
>millions of dollars in outside funding riding on it, it might take a while 
>before the lights can come on at night. And also keep in mind that an image 
>in space can take days to develop and lights turned on can ruin that image.
>
>Here is an idea. How about putting the park that needs lights somewhere 
>else other than the only place in the city where we cannot have lights on. 
>Just a thought.
>
>_DJA
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