Re: Meeting on the Proposed gym for the Pool Complex on F Street

["John Cronin" <jaycron@turbonet.com>]

Linda, thanks for bringing this issue up to the forefront. I appreciate
your encouragement to everyone who cares about this project to be present
at the upcoming meeting. I would remind the listserve that the Hamilton
will specifically states that the money be used for the " benefit of young
children"

The National Association for the Education of Young Children and many
others in this community define the population of  young children as being
from birth to age eight. The only facility in Moscow for young children
over the long winter is the McDonald's playground. How family friendly is
that? I have yet to know of any young children in this age range that will
benefit from aerobics exercise nevermind a gymnasium. How about a permanent
place for young children and families to learn from one another? Does
Moscow need to build another gymnasium when similar facilities stand idle
at the school district? Aren't there adequate private business who offer
aerobic exercise?

My impression is that the Dream Team design has left out the very people
Mr. Hamilton intended the money to benefit...young children.

John 

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From: Linda Pall <lpall@moscow.com>
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Meeting on the Proposed gym for the Pool Complex on F Street
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:36 PM

Dear Visionaries,

I have not seen much publicity or heard any conversation on this listserve
concerning the future of the proposed activities center, to be financed by
the Hamilton bequest.

REMEMBER: THE MEETING TO DISCUSS THE PLAN IS THURSDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 17, AT
7 PM AT THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS!!!

If you care about the neighborhood of F and Mountainview, if you hope to
see other facilities on the site (maybe the skating rink if the fair
grounds don't work out?), if you'd like to see the $4 million pool used for
more than 2 months a year, if you have some ideas for what you'd like to
see about the activities and design of the facility, management of it, or
anything else related (like could we please have some real method of giving
kids who can't afford to participate a dignified, direct way of getting
into activities?)...

YOU NEED TO BE THERE AND MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN!!!

All the best,
Linda Pall