Port Angeles Park Sponsorship
Imagine driving across the Eighth Street Ace Hardware Bridges on your way to Lincoln Safeway Park.
A lot of major stadiums are already named after corporations. If this approach gets extended to local parks and museums, it might raise enough revenue to keep these facilities up and running. With all due respect to William Shore, the Kenmore Pool would probably stand a better chance of staying open.
The Port Angeles City Council is considering a proposal that would allow city parks and facilities to be named after an organization, company or individual — for a fee.
Deputy Parks Director Richard Bonine said the city doesn’t have an estimate on how much these sponsorships would cost or how much revenue could be raised.
This proposal would require all sponsorships to be reviewed by Bonine; the Parks, Recreation and Beautification Commission; and the City Council’s Parks and Facilities Oversight Committee. Bonine said: “If they think it's a good idea and I think it's a good idea, then we would go with it.”
I think this approach is worth trying. The William Shore Memorial Pool isn’t the only facility in jeopardy. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center and the Arthur D. Feiro Marine Life Center are also on the chopping block.
Come on Sponsors.
A lot of major stadiums are already named after corporations. If this approach gets extended to local parks and museums, it might raise enough revenue to keep these facilities up and running. With all due respect to William Shore, the Kenmore Pool would probably stand a better chance of staying open.
The Port Angeles City Council is considering a proposal that would allow city parks and facilities to be named after an organization, company or individual — for a fee.
Deputy Parks Director Richard Bonine said the city doesn’t have an estimate on how much these sponsorships would cost or how much revenue could be raised.
This proposal would require all sponsorships to be reviewed by Bonine; the Parks, Recreation and Beautification Commission; and the City Council’s Parks and Facilities Oversight Committee. Bonine said: “If they think it's a good idea and I think it's a good idea, then we would go with it.”
I think this approach is worth trying. The William Shore Memorial Pool isn’t the only facility in jeopardy. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center and the Arthur D. Feiro Marine Life Center are also on the chopping block.
Come on Sponsors.
Labels: Arthur D. Feiro Marine Life Center, Deputy Parks Director Richard Bonine, Parks Recreation and Beautification Commission, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, William Shore Memorial Pool
posted by Tom Harper at 3:14 PM
10 Comments:
I think Port Angeles itself would stand a better chance if it were re-named Chutney Falls.
And while we're re-naming things, the farmer's market could be re-christened the Edna Petersen Open Air Market and Laurel Street known as Rusty Statue Row.
Port Angeles should be renamed "The End Of The World".
I don't live in PA proper but I could put up a sign saying "Its not quite the end of the world, but you can see it from here."
Yeah, perhaps the Fine Arts Center could be sponsored (and paid for) by the protesters and other leftists, call it the "Saturday Village Idiots at Veteran's Park Not-So Fine Arts Center."
Note: I suppose you, being a little left of center yourself, won't post this.
Lincoln was over rated. As a Conservative, I demand that the city rename "Lincoln" to "Rush Limbaugh Avenue" as befits this much maligned good man!
If there's a street named after Rush Limbaugh it would have to be at least 8 lanes wide and be littered with OxyContin and Viagra bottles.
Rush Limbaugh Street would have good hard-working Americans living there who fly the flag and have smart, successful kids who would probably start out home-schooled. They would go on to be doctors, engineers, or perhaps attend a service academy.
Rush Limbaugh Street would resemble a street from yesteryear, where kids could play outside without fear of being abducted.
Rush Limbaugh Street would look like Mayberry.
"Rush Limbaugh Street would look like Mayberry."
... so it would look like the set for television show?
And you forgot to mention that the denizens of this fictional place would be church-going, as we all know that Rush is really big on observing the Sabbath (that's Sunday. I'm not talking about attending a Black Sabbath concert) and adhering to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Yeah, except most of the engineering jobs on Rush Limbaugh street would have been outsourced to Indian and China, and what's left would be filled by H1B workers so you don't have to pay American wages.
"we all know that Rush is really big"
That's hilarious, whether you intended that or not!
Rush couldn't live here, he would run out of doctors to shop drugs from.
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