Small Town Essay

Some people might say that building an indoor baseball, softball, and football field is a waste of money and it would be too expensive. Each day people would have to pay a certain amount of money per hour they are there, or they could get a membership. If there are tournaments, the teams have to pay to enter them. Also Eldred could have fundraisers to earn money for the fields.

March 29, 1998 was just another typical day for headline news in Sioux Falls. The Argus Leader was filled with your everyday politics, sports, entertainment, weather, and life news. Eight inmates serving life sentence in the South Dakota State Penitentiary met to discuss better living conditions for all prisoners (Steen). On a more positive note, the annual Sioux Empire water festival was held at the University of Sioux Falls. Around 2,200 fourth graders, from surrounding communities, gather to learn more about the abundance of their natural resources, and how to preserve them. Thirty booths were set up at the site displaying how to make snow, how to snorkel, and how to make bubbles the size of humans (Olson). As far as youth sports, nothing was more popular than the tri-state basketball tournament held every year in Sioux Falls. The event attracted over 2,900 athletes as well 289 teams (“Tri-State Crowns 30 Champions 5C”).

“The Most Expensive Game In Town” by Mark Hyman is a book with a loud voice trying to reach its reader and spread its word. The book is a written opinion on youth sports and how everyone is getting pulled into “my kid deserves all this (equipment and money) and will hopefully become a pro and because I put in so many funds, he has a better shot getting a scholarship.” This is basically Hyman’s argument in a nutshell, especially in the beginning. Hyman writes to the public to show which I realized while reading, is that youth sports has a lot of negatives and is poorly ran by people, businesses, government. WIth that said, we can’t help it because without these organization or businesses whose going to help pay for all these tournaments and leagues. Hyman questioned in the early stages of the book, “for young athletes is more always better”. With businesses trying to use youth sports as marketing, sporting goods stores give parents the “more” option and the tease to spend even more money.

With the heat and pressure of the season fully upon us, it’s a nice change of pace lend a hand in our local communities. So, when the Prospect Valley Rebels little league baseball team needed help rebuilding their baseball field, they came to LGE. The field was in disrepair – full of weeds and rocks – making it an uninviting place to be, let alone a place to play baseball. LGE stepped up to the plate (pun intended) with donations of material, trucking, and equipment time. Along with helping hands from volunteers from the baseball team and the local community, the field was soon ready for the kids to play ball. Now this field is an enjoyable place to watch a baseball game on a hot summer afternoon.

The issue at hand, however, is that power has shifted from the cities to the teams themselves. Professional athletic organizations have started taking advantage of cities by threatening to relocate unless they get public subsidies for expensive stadium renovations and construction. With this in mind it is imperative to ask today’s question: Do public subsidies for professional athletic organizations benefit their local community?

As the city’s population expanded, finding enough space for these sports became an issue. Hockey was played on frozen lakes, and baseball diamonds were constructed in city parks. But basketball courts became an issue. While there were plenty of gymnasiums in Edina and the surrounding cities youth basketball associations did not want to share “their courts” (despite the fact that most of the courts belonged to private gyms or to the school district). These associations petitioned to the Edina School Board for more basketball courts, promising political support for the elected members of the school board. The school board agreed and, after much consideration, chose the fields behind the high school and nearest to my home as the location for a new fitness center, complete with eight more basketball

349). In order to generate more money, Mr. Balboa should start a women’s field hockey team. Five schools that are private with total enrollment similar to Never Land have field hockey teams, with an average of 27 athletes on their rosters (N.A., 2016). These five teams generate an average of $240,907 in revenue for their schools (N.A., 2016). This extra revenue would help to decrease the deficit the Bells are currently in, but the athletic director would need to keep the scholarship totals the same for the whole department, so some sports would lose some scholarship money. Mr. Balboa would have to explain to each coach that in order to keep the department running they have to redistribute scholarship money more equally. Another way to generate more money is to add club sports. Club sports do not offer athletic scholarships, and have very little institutional financing and the players are the ones who handle all coaching duties (Pennington, 2008). By adding club teams, the school could increase their enrollment because an estimated two million students play club sports in the country, while 430, play varsity-level sports (Vitale, 2013). These teams would use the Bells facilities, and could be put under the athletic department’s umbrella so it would be more revenue generated by the

Sports teams are a symbol of a cities pride. Take for example the Chicago Cubs. They create a sense of loyalty toward that city. However, none of that would happen without a stadium. Stadiums and teams can play a very important role in a cities economy, or they could also be irrelevant. To decide whether or not they are useful or not you must first understand each side of the argument. So first, let’s examine the pros of having a stadium within your city. Then, we will discuss the harms of having one. And finally, decide which side is more beneficial for the economy.

First thing I had to digest was the power of a team. My view of sports in middle school was a vary individual centralized system. The best thing an athlete could do in my eyes was become the best they could be. Little did I contemplate what a team did. Here, sports team participate in a wide verity of volunteer opportunities and services for the community. We set up and tear down public events, run kids camps, and operate ice cream trucks. With Gus Macker we help stimulate our local economy to untold amounts from tourist traffic. We are able to do this because of the team structure we already have in place.

Many families and individuals find themselves at some point questioning the advantages of city living versus country living. It is nearly impossible to find a good answer to this question. What is good for one person might not be good for another. Some people enjoy the busy, hyper active metropolitan city where they can use all amenities and have unlimited opportunities for work and leisure. At the same time, other people feel the urge to be closer to Mother Nature, relaxation, beauty, and peace. They take pleasure in living in the calm and peaceful environment of the countryside and spending their free time fishing, hiking, picking berries in the woods, or playing in the creek. In my opinion, the nature

   Abstract:  The Stadium  construction boom continues, and taxpayers are being forced to pay for new high tech stadiums they don’t want.  These new stadiums create only part-time jobs.  Stadiums bring money in exclusively for professional leagues and not the communities.  The teams are turning public money into private profit.  Professional leagues are becoming extremely wealthy at the taxpayers expense.  The publicly-funded stadium obsession must be put to a stop before athletes and coaches become even greedier.  New stadiums being built hurt public schools, and send a message to children that leisure activities are more important than basic education.  Public money

Have you ever taken a stroll down the lower eastside of Manhattan? It’s a great place to be indeed. The many smells of fine Chinese and Italian food flood the streets. Yes this is where the famous Chinatown and Little Italy is located in New York City. There are more then just fine foods, shops, and people. In fact there is a lot of history behind these two towns that many people do not know about. How they came to be and what makes each town unique.

Where I live is one of the greatest neighborhoods in the city to live in; however it does have its draw backs. Importantly it has nearly everything a resident might want, beautiful picturesque scenery, proximity to shopping, and many of the cultural centers. Nevertheless the roads can be some of the most congested in town, and the streets are not safe to walk late at night.

The Department of Homeland Security released the 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review on June 18, 2014 as required by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and its amendments. This review outlined the current state of preparedness, as well as the future areas of concentration. It also determined six strategic challenges facing the nation: terrorist threat; growing cyber threats; biological concerns as a whole; nuclear terrorism; transnational criminal organizations; and natural hazards. The basic building block of emergency management in the U.S. is the local community. Each step begins here. Threat assessments are completed on the local level. Planning, mitigation, and response are all responsibilities of the local community to support the state and Federal practice using the guidance provided by both.

Last August, I took a trip with the youth group from my church to Washington, D.C. to visit the church there in our congregation. While I was there for seven days, I found many things there that were much better in the large city, and other things very odd. Going out in the city and finding out these things were very interesting to me since I live in a small town Kalona, Iowa, with a population around three-thousand people. After experiencing both, I can definitely say that both have their benefits and disadvantages. Personally, I still feel that living in a small town is better than living in a big city.