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| STEVE BAYT E-Publisher "Parma's Guiding Light" SAVE VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK (originally posted on Cleveland.com Forums early February 2001) Article 59 since 1987 Article 4 since November 10,2000 THE V.M. PARK WOULD BE MELTING IN THE DARK. ALL IT'S BEAUTY AND MONEY FLOWING DOWN. BOLDT'S PRC WILL LEAVE PARMA'S CAKE OUT IN THE RAIN. I DON'T THINK THE PARK CAN TAKE IT. CAUSE IT TOOK SO LONG TO BAKE IT. WITH BOLDT'S PRC PARMA WON'T HAVE THE RECIPE AGAIN. variation Richard Harris' McArthur's Park To anyone who posts comments like: What is this all about? Read those things on driveways called Newspapers which have published many front page, back page and Letters on Parma's Mayor Boldt's Committe's proposed Parma Recreation Center (PRC) in Veterans Memorial Park. Fourteen-ish years ago (and again 14 weeks ago) I E-Proposed a Parma Winter Recreation Center (PWRC) behind Shiloh Middle School (then Shiloh Junior High School). The previous hence edited E-articles can be found at the Community Forums at www.cleveland.com. THE VMP/PRC commands a mandatory $60-$150 annual Property Tax Increase. Also membership fees have been surveyed at $350 annually. The Shiloh/PWRC could bring in maybe $75 million annually: $20 million for City Services, $20 million for School Operations and $35 million for Parma School Graduates Lifetime scholarships. MORE TO COME and have been-in previous articles. The PRC's cost would be spare change to the financial loss(via aesthetics) of THE VMP's $4-8 million in annual revenue contribution. The operative word in Veterans Memorial Park (VMP) is "Park". In 1966, 1967 and 1968 ABC-TV made then State Road Park "The Softball Capital of The World." Primarily due to Steve Loya (thus, Loya Parkway) The Park (emphasis added, park) has a 35 year consecutive streak of hosting at least one (to 4) National Softball Tournaments. Softballers (with lots of money) between competitions enjoy strolling and picnicing through the woods. Mostly where THE PRC is planned. They enjoy kids having a playground and a pond. Which would no longer exist(along with previous e-published Park attributes) with Boldt's PRC. They enjoy plentiful parking. They won't enjoy (and definitely won't return) with 3 or 4 summers dodging construction. Then the terror or reduced parking, shared with the few PRC recreators. Softball is like Parma's business. Building a PRC in the middle of "the store" won't please our "customers". Throughout Parma, Mom and Pop Stores rely on summer's thousands of non-Ohio customers. That same "Park Feeling" with Softball,will be used to create a "Neighborhood Feeling" with BAYT's Shiloh/PWRC. An overwhelming majority (85-ish %) of San Franciscans feel so superior they have all but legally renamed their city "THE CITY." Parma should (and I will now always) call it "THE PARK". ************** It was Labor Day 1966. Twelve million American TV viewers were falling in love with a new fictitous city called Port Charles. And a former Cleveland Baseballer John Beradino. As soon as General Hospital's STEVE HARDY saved his last life of the afternoon. ABC went to a real city and place called Parma and State Road Park(35 years later called THE PARK.) On Labor Day 1966, then 1967 and 1968 ABC broadcast The Park's National Softball Championship Finale. About 35,000 paying spectators gathered around Grossman Field. Another estimated 7,000 Parmans with Home Field Advantage climbed hills to free-load viewing. The Post-GH viewers learned of this Cleveland suburb where there are tens of thousands of new homes. General Motors, Ford and Forest City executives must have been watching. Not only did the broadcast(s) revenue City Share pay for a great deal of services. The 13 million or so viewers heard of Parma. Besides the TV coverage came magazine and newspaper articles. If not for The Park's events. It is virtually guaranteed that Parma,by the real time of Love Canal. Parma would have looked like Love Canal. In 3 hours Parma would become what it is now. Without those 3 hours Vinewood, Valewood, Concord Square, Winchester, Staunton and 30-ish streets built around 1965 would now be mere foundations where houses used to stand. Those 3 hours provided more advertising then a decade of realtors effort. Or millions of dollars of City funds. Every Sunday (12:15-2:30 p.m.) and Thursday (3:15-5:30),when I am not in Golden Gate Park, since April 1981 I have trained on The Park's Paracourse. Every night I am overwhelmed by the historical significance and economic effect of what happened those three Labor Day's. On any given summer Sunday/Thursday I begin my 10-15 laps by seeing hundreds(maybe a thousand) out of State License Plates. I act very diplomaticaly. For those people are paying for The Park. Very few cities have both a beautiful park that can also produce revenue from outside of the city. Essentially, paying for itself. I someday hope the Paracourse will the nationally known training site of a Parma Marathoner whose athletic fund raising ended Homelessness and AIDS. Which is a shameless plug. To go to my website www.geocities.com/randyshilts. Click the text then make a contribution. THE PARK is Parma's only citizen's controlling Revenue Producing Asset. GM, Ford and Parmatown are run by Multi-national corporations who care about THE BOTTOM LINE, not Parma. LTV Steel will have a devastating effect on Parma. After Sunday's Rough Cut. Art Modell and his moved out Browns, well.. As long as THE PARK is a park. Parma has a financial insurance asset. Construction of some previously E-published Trojan Horse will be like letting the policy lapse. Doing anything to the perfection of THE PARK would be like putting curves on THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. Like Celine Dion going heavy metal,and Bon Jovi doing Love songs. Like taking the visual perfection of Heather Locklear,Angie Harmon (or daytime's Fiona ana Florencia) and giving them Anne Heche haircuts. Like adding a 5th Beattle. Like Jordan not being a Bull. Like Calista Flockhart not being "Ally McBeal". ********************** As of this point I am going to violate Journalist's Golden Rule. My futuristic label "Parma's Guiding Light" is really more of a time travel crusade back to Parma's glory days. My slogan "We'll Find Tomorrow..." should really be "We'll Find Yesterday." I had this epiphany exactly 8 days ago when I realized how much THE BOLDT Committee People need to learn about Parma's history. It is surreal the tragedy Parma would have been destroyed by, without THE PARK's TV coverage. And the tragedy of THE PARK being destroyed. Exactly on October 17,1989. I had just canvassed edition 29 of PARMA's GUIDING LIGHT. Preaching how great THE PARK is. At 5:04 San Francisco Time a Grantwood Resident called me with his own epiphany. If THE PARK is such a great financial and aesthetic asset. Why do we need a Parma Winter Recreation Center? That question will be answered in Article 60 or 5 (depending on whether you are one of the 6,000 PGLers) to be posted Febraury 21st. As for now, it is up to the responsibility of Parma Area Netizens to act responsibly. Help get the truth of THE PRC's destruction and and the PWRC's nirvana out to the non-Internet world. At most 8,000 Parma households will surf these postings. That leaves 26,000 household residents potential November Ballot Petition signers. Contributions to start a campaign aginst the PRC and for THE PWRC should be sent (pay to order STEVE BAYT) at 2814 Dellwood Drive Parma,Ohio 44134-4208. Or you can write your own editorial, find a printer and canvass it yourself. Or show up at THE PARK with protest signs. JUST DO SOMETHING. In Dover, Delaware a mere 27,000 Population city was able to make national news. Certainly Parma's 88,000 can at least get local news coverage. My next www.cleveland.com posting will be part of a National (COPY AND PASTE) effort to establish a National AIDS TEST DAY on February 17th in honor of Randy Shilts. So, it will be a trolling. WE'LL FIND TOMORROW..... STEVEN BAYT This is Casey McCall, Dan Rydell, Dana Whitaker, Natalie Hurley and Jeremy Miller siging off. SHINE ON TIL TOMMORROW LET THE PARK BE. |
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