As if there isn't enough events at Cedar Beach Park, the Park Department is now renting the park out to private promoters for even more events. On Saturday evening the park was mobbed for the Water Lantern Festival, operated by a private promoter.
According to their website, tickets for the event cost $35. I don't know what kind of gate security they had, or how many people actually paid the full freight, or what the city's take was. but I do know that the park is terribly overused and abused.
A Tuerk sycophant asked me what I thought of the city's public meetings to formulate ideas for a new park masterplan. I told him they were nonsense, and that the parks weren't meant to be a venue for every popular fad. They also were not intended to be pimped out to promotion companies.
please excuse my frank language in this post
I’d actually be ok with it if the city removed the algae growing in the lake prior to the event (and the goose droppings too). Then there would at least be some benefit to city residents.
ReplyDeleteI was around the lake last week, and it was filled with algae, so I can’t imagine that the water lanterns traveled very far.
Maybe we should be grateful the city didn’t pimp the park out to a group that would release flaming lanterns into the air, which run the risk of starting fires when they return to Earth.
I just looked through their website. Suddenly this came to mind. It all seems to go along with what nonsense Allentown is about these days.....
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxtZpFl3pPM
A water lantern festival? How are they able to get near enough to even see and enjoy the water, what with all the weeds everywhere?
ReplyDeleteGoose excrement, raises nitrogen levels and creates an environment to be taken over by duckweed and other invasive vegetation.
ReplyDeleteFall is coming, they should close the parks on Saturday morning and encourage Goose hunting. The geese are supposed to go south in the winter anyway, maybe they would if people would stop feeding them.
Did the organizers clean up all the mess afterwards?
ReplyDeleteWhat about the hundreds of cars parking anywhere they want causing harm to trees and grassy areas?
ReplyDeleteMM - Is it even legal for the city to rent city parks to a for-profit organization? Maybe a legal sleuth can look into this?
ReplyDeleteanon12:31: The algae is terrible in both the garden ponds and the lake. Years ago they were treated with non-toxic chemical to reduce such, but that seems to have stopped.
Deleteray@5:33: the droppings on the cinder path around the lake are horrendous
anon6:02: I assume so
anon@9:02: an issue with all the overuse
anon10:04: During the Pawlowski regime another private company had some sort of races down the Ott St. hill.
Wasn’t there a private paddle boat concession on the “lake”?
ReplyDeleteI remember when tons and tons of broken concrete was placed around MLake to discourage geese.
ReplyDeleteIt is common for for individual flocks of geese in the mid-Atlantic to stay in one location year round. Five minutes of research will show this.
anon 1:08: The paddle boat concession has been gone for many decades
ReplyDeleteanon 3:42: The geese problem is long gone, but path have never been cleaned up from their droppings. The shore line is unkempt. Park leadership clueless.
You care.
ReplyDeleteA handful of other informed, semi informed and well meaning dopes care.
So what?
The place will be a bigger disaster tomorrow than today, and a bigger disaster the day after that.
Camden here we come.
We both know that.
We have watched the city die.
What an experience.