A lot of people agree with me that Cain Park is one of the best theater venues in the country. Performers and people are happy there, enjoying the pleasures of the outdoors, even when it rains…really, ask anyone who has seen a performance in the rain. It’s a good time.
And, this is another testimony to our wonderful history. People planned for the future and built the park and the program so that we can enjoy it today.
But, it is also proof that money is not the answer to our problems. City Council voted to close the wading pool there this summer. This is penny wise and pound foolish. The maintenance that will be required to use it again will probably surpass what using it this summer would have cost. There was no reason to decrease our quality of life in this way.
The money I am not going to take for serving as a council person will cover the cost to reopen the pool. And it will be re-opened.
It has also been allowed to get weedy and unattractive. Look at the pictures. A little TLC and about $200.00 in plants would have worked wonders.
Volunteers would have probably planted them.
And, one last thing about a place my family and I love–we have to introduce it to our new residents and get people in it to experience the pleasures of the theater and music and visual arts there. It needs new supporters. There are a lot of people who look like me there–lots of gray hair. We need our younger residents to get hooked on the place. And, I have lots of ideas about how to do that.
