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Fruita is growing with leaps and bounds. We are getting more houses, therefore more people. We’d love to get more businesses and we definitely need a city recreation center for all ages. Why do we have to drive to Delta, to Montrose for a senior dance once a month?
Those communities were wise enough to build their own rec centers for the welfare of their communities. For recreation here, we have seasonal baseball, high-priced movies, hiking at times of the year. Swimming is severely limited by lack of year-round pools. The ones we have are hard to access, too far away as Orchard Mesa, too busy and small as Fruita High School, which closes frequently for repairs. That’s it. The summer pool in Fruita needs repairs and is only open a little over three months in the summer.
The rec center is badly needed in Fruita. Please, everyone, vote “Yes” on Issue A.
IDA YOUNGER
Fruita
2 Responses to “Valley needs a recreation center”
Posted March 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Don’t be fooled. Running local business out of town and increasing taxes is the last thing a city should do to encurage new business. What’s next is the city going to open their own grocery store?
Posted March 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Ida is right on, don’t be fooled by silly comments of prior commentator, as obviously it’s one of those detractors who are using scare tactics. Fruita City Council members and the citizens committee members have talked with numerous communities about impact on private fitness centers of a public rec, that includes just some basic cario/fitness equipment, and they all said (Tim Anderson in Aspen, Cathy Metz in Durango, and several small communities on front range who were visited by the citizens committee) that NO, repeat, NO, private fitness gym has gone out of business since the opening of either the Aspen Recreation Center or the Durango Recreation Center. They serve different people. Some folks will spend a little more money for a private facility to not have the kids around and have more availability and variety of equipment, others can’t afford that, so a public facility with minimal equipment, plus all sorts of other amenities like a pool, gym, free senior center, meeting rooms, works for them.
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