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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’ll reiterate what my parents said when I
complained: “Only boring people can be bored.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Donovan Arnold
[mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 15, 2009
10:30 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'vision 2020'; Jennifer
Ingalls<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020]
Family-Friendly Activities (was U of I Program Cuts)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jennifer,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I liked doing all those things too as a child in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>. But lets face
it, there is only so some many times you can visit the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">McConnell</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mansion</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
before it no longer entertaining to a child. And camping doesn't count
because you have to leave <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
to go do it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you are an outdoors type of person, there are
lots of things to do in <st1:place w:st="on">North Idaho</st1:place>. But for
many people that are not, it leaves something to be desired. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>One of the biggest complaints I heard from students
was that there was nothing to do in <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>,
and why so many people supported the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Student</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Recreation</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, which is more
like a glorified and over priced Idaho Athletic Club with a climbing wall
then a recreation center for different kinds of recreational activities. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I do not think I have found a mother at UI that
thought <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>'s
daycare was inexpensive. There is a huge waiting list too. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>What few things there are to do in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, also cost a lot of money, which is
hard to afford when you have no money, because there are no jobs that pay
above what you need to scrape by. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>There is less to do in <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>
now then was when my Mother was child in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>We have no bowling alley. We have no roller skating
ring. We have no IMax Theater. We have fewer quality restaurants. We have no
high tech gaming center. We have no science discovery park, we have no
big museums. No race cars. No theme parks, no big fancy hangouts, we
don't even really have a year round swimming pool, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>The best thing <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
has for entertainment is the Library. Which is a great library, but hardly
the place that comes to mind when we want to think about entertainment. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yes, you can always THINK of something to do in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, but that is the
problem, you really have to THINK, to find something to do. Its Midnight in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, besides the
bars and the Jack N the Crack drive-thru, what is open?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Donovan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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--- On <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Wed, 1/14/09, Jennifer Ingalls <i><span
style='font-style:italic'><jennifer@inlandradio.com></span></i></span></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: Jennifer Ingalls
<jennifer@inlandradio.com><br>
Subject: [Vision2020] Family-Friendly Activities (was U of I Program Cuts)<br>
To: "'vision 2020'" <vision2020@moscow.com><br>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 1:27 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I don’t necessarily want to get into the argument about diversity
in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> or
at UI, but I do take some issue with Donovan’s statement, “N</span></font>ot
to mention the lack of affordable child care, or family fun activities.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I grew up in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> and though my
family had more money than families where a student is the primary financier
of the household, we were not at a loss for family-friendly free activities
(unless we were willfully bored). This is not to say that we can’t do better
as a community at providing free and/or inexpensive activities, but I think
many of us forget those things that are available to us. For example, I
–regretfully—cannot remember the last time I went to the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">McConnell</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mansion</st1:PlaceType>
or picked up a walking tour guide of the towns history and hoofed it through <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Fort</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Russell</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
(two activities that occupied Spring and Summer days of my youth). The
library (which I remember as only being the old part of the building) was
cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter. Organizations like Campfire, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts and local churches provided the three of us a lot of fun
and educational activities (both our family’s church of choice and the
churches or religious organizations of friends). My mom used to take us to
Good Sam to distribute our wares after craft days at the house. We’d ride
bikes out to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Robinson</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
, “fish” in Hordeman’s pond, or take advantage of all the demonstrations,
concerts and educational lectures the University offered. There were a lot of
things to do!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I’ll grant that
I was a nerdy kid (still am). I, too, would love to see more activities
available after school that would appeal to “at risk” youth (I AM doing
something about that with my involvement in Latah County Youth Advocacy
Council), but I don’t think can jump on board with the whole “there’s nothing
to do here” claim. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:navy'>Jennifer L. Ingalls</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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