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What is wrong in Avoca?
Is it a coincidence that I am writing this on “Earth Day?” I don’t know.
I see the village took down the pavilions in the park. The park used to be just the play field and a landfill for anything anybody wanted to dump back in there.
About 30 years ago a group of local people, my husband included, got involved in the project to clean up the park.
Then a local family cut down the trees for the poles and cut the boards for the roof and added the pavilions. It was at minimal cost to the village. Even a beat up old grader was loaned for the project.
I see the light bulbs go off in your tiny little heads... it was old. A few repairs here and there would save them. It’s called upkeep.
A pavilion burned down in Elmira just this year. I did my first boondoggle there in the 1950’s. Guess what? It was build in the 1880’s. There were many generations saddened by the loss.
In all these years there have been many groups and families that used those pavilions. The summer youth program held end-of-summer picnics in the 80’s.
Is cars driving on the grass an issue? Guess what? It’s just grass, there’s more where that came from. You don’t want the cars there? Issue tickets. It’s called revenue.
Did Avoca win the lottery? I hear you are building another one. Is the material donated? Where’s the revenue? Do you think in these times people want our tax dollars spend on your wish list?
Historic Downtown is old, when you are taking that down?
Goldie Khork
Avoca
What is wrong in Avoca?
Is it a coincidence that I am writing this on “Earth Day?” I don’t know.
I see the village took down the pavilions in the park. The park used to be just the play field and a landfill for anything anybody wanted to dump back in there.
About 30 years ago a group of local people, my husband included, got involved in the project to clean up the park.
Then a local family cut down the trees for the poles and cut the boards for the roof and added the pavilions. It was at minimal cost to the village. Even a beat up old grader was loaned for the project.
I see the light bulbs go off in your tiny little heads... it was old. A few repairs here and there would save them. It’s called upkeep.
A pavilion burned down in Elmira just this year. I did my first boondoggle there in the 1950’s. Guess what? It was build in the 1880’s. There were many generations saddened by the loss.
In all these years there have been many groups and families that used those pavilions. The summer youth program held end-of-summer picnics in the 80’s.
Is cars driving on the grass an issue? Guess what? It’s just grass, there’s more where that came from. You don’t want the cars there? Issue tickets. It’s called revenue.
Did Avoca win the lottery? I hear you are building another one. Is the material donated? Where’s the revenue? Do you think in these times people want our tax dollars spend on your wish list?
Historic Downtown is old, when you are taking that down?
Goldie Khork
Avoca
