Lehigh Valley politics and professional wrestling have a lot in common... they both involve fakery with a pre-determined outcome.
Every year our state senators and representatives get to be white knights with the school budget. The state mandates that the districts must determine their budgets before the state contribution is known. This formula allows our elected officials to be heroes just a few months before the election every year.
Every summer Allentown parks has shortage of life guards, and must curtail the swimming pool options. If it's not just an excuse, you would think that by now they would learn that they must outpay the local amusement park, and start their yearly search earlier. This season Irving Pool will not open at all. The city is phrasing this pool out, just as they did to Fountain Pool years ago. Shortage of lifeguards is an convenient excuse. With the Tilghman Street Bridge closed, the east side once again gets the short end of the stick. Alan Jennings and Community Action Committee of Lehigh Valley want to train their low income clients to be farmers, how about life guards?
Most Allentonians of memory share my disgust about the weed wall barriers blocking the streams in the parks. The Morning Call has been withholding letters on that topic to accommodate the agenda of the Wildlands Conservancy.
Those looking for a little truth about Allentown to sprinkle on their early morning gruel are pretty much limited to this blog.
All Allentown did is exchange one mayor for another, don't expect any changes. Notwithstanding that O'Connell is a placeholder mayor, he enabled Ed to be.. well Ed and he helped to rubber stamp his agenda.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I prefer not to comment about my own posts, today I make an exception. As a teenager many of my summer days were spent at one pool or another in Allentown. Although Cedar Beach was the usual, I also often went to Fountain Park. Before the city officially closed that pool, they went through the same series of excuses. First it was supposedly a lifeguard shortage, and that was long before Wild Water Kingdom. Finally they claimed the filter needed replacement, which would cost $160K. Not much since a new pool cost $Millions. Allentown wants to close Irving Pool and is going down the same path of excuses. There may be a new mayor, but the East Side continues to be treated second class.
ReplyDeleteYou will be glad to know that the weed barrier along Cedar Creek at the Rose Garden has been cut down. It is now about 6" high. A huge improvement from what it was a week ago.
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