Blue ribbons show WECRD support

Great, let's not address the issues and questions, let's buy some ribbons and waste some more money. It shows where their heads are though trying to make it an emotional issue and trying to put the WECRD on par with breast cancer and welcome home ribbons. I think it's great though. This will just add fuel to the disillusion fire.

Maybe the disillusion folks should wear red ribbons, because thats where the WRECD will always be financially.

Blue is commonly the color of the support ribbon for Child Abuse, Prostate Cancer, and Law Enforcement. Now it's for the WECRD!?! I know there aren't enough colors to possible support the awareness of every cause in our current PC environment, so every cause can't have their own. Personally I don't care much for these things. To me their mostly for people who are so pretentious that they have to prove to you that they care more about something than you do. I offer time and money to charities and causes, but I won't wear a ribbon. To me you prove your support through substantive actions. So far that's the big hit on the WECRD, taking action. It's January 2009. The district was formed in January 2001. Eight years later, with an outdated plan and increased taxes, there is nothing to show for it except a beat up sign, weathered by the years.

In all fairness to the WECRD as far as the ribbons go, at least they're doing something…meaningless, but it's something I guess, and it may make them feel better. Although they probably won't stop taking any heat until they begin to listen to the community and scale back the dream plan considerably to make it affordable to build, operate, and maintain without increasing the taxes again or having unrealistic expectations on pass sales. Anything other than that, the last event supporters hold for the proposed center is a candlelight vigil when reality forces it to close its doors and liquidate all assets. But for that to happen we'd need something more than a "Coming Soon" sign.

How lame! This is why the WECRD needs to close its doors - is this the best thing they can come up with? They need to be spending more time trying to figure out a plan on how to get the thing completed, not worry about what color ribbon everyone is wearing. Where is that petition?

Still no response to the questions I asked on the BB a while back and still no answers to the questions put to Judy (which she wrote down) last Friday. So, we have blue ribbons to support and signatures to not. If that is the best this bunch is willing to do, we will not have a problem. I do wonder if tax money paid for those ribbons however. I cannot wait until the WECRD Board meeting this month (the last Weds. of every month). This one should be fun and a great place to obtain signatures (outside their office of course). Please try to make this meeting and listen to what they say-----or do not say. It is always great for a blank look if nothing else.

Silence is deadly or maybe that is golden. I think in this case, it will deadly for the WECRD. What the board is missing is that many of us that they think are totally against a rec center are indeed just the opposite. I would support a rec center if it made economic sense and benifited the ENTIRE community. On their site, they state that the pool is in response to the need for 44% of the children under 14yrs old. Now I am not a statictican by any strech but that means that the majority of children under the age of 14 did not express a need for a pool. How is that serving the entire community?

OG:

I met with Judy last week (Friday) at the WECRD office. I told her we are not against a facility but we want one that the ENTIRE community can use AND pay for. What good is it if we cannot afford to maintain it and keep the doors open? Now, they intend to add a gym to the Phase I plan as Ms. Ashcraft stated at the CC meeting. Just how much does 1 million dollars get us? Love those answers from Ms. Ashcraft who is supposed to be the key to communication now. That is working well (not really). I wonder if she is paid, contract or a volunteer. I still wonder if we paid for those blue ribbons as well.

Good night.

You guys are really lame. Now you're making an issue of whose paying for a $5.00 roll of blue ribbon. Let's just grasp at any straw to discredit them. LOL. And they have revised their original concept for the rec center to one more scaled back and more affordable but you choose to ignore that fact.

BB:

I choose to "ignore that fact" as you stated while you continue to ignore the MANY facts. Wake up already.

OM -

You're so-called "facts" are nothing more than your negative opinions that you rehash over and over again. You're AGAINST EVERYTHING and its quite tiresome. Get a life!

BB:

I really am not against "everything." I am against the things that represent more needless taxes in a time when most can hardly pay for their homes and food. I am against spending when nobody can tell me what is being done or what the money is being spent on. I am ALL for a community center for MH---as long as the "community" (that is everyone in it) can afford to pay for it, use it and maintain it. A club for the "few" is not a "community center"----that is another city golf course.

You continue to infer that I/we have not tried to "work with" the Board. That is not true. You ahould have been at the Petition signing on Saturday and heard what people thought. Many stated that they had been into the office (when they could find it open) and tried to talk to Mollie but could not get any answers. Many people stated that they are out of work or have had their hours cut back to 2 days a week and cannot afford more taxes---they will have to give up their homes. Perhaps you should spend a few moments with the "other" side and LISTEN to the people. 10 year old information is out of date. A lot has changed.

For the record, I do have a life but I do not like to be walked on or lied to. We will see how this WECRD Board meeting goes on Weds. I would bet it will be more of the same old stuff. The only thing that will help this at this point is 2,500 signatures---and we will get them. Then, the voters can decide, again. I find it interesting that you state how many people "support" the current plan but figure it will not make the vote again. That is very interesting.