Letters to the Editor 11-16-2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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School Expansion
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to add my two cents into the current debate over school expansion plans. As a former student at WCHS I participated in band, track and the speech team. I have seen both sides of the debate. The football team needs a new stadium and the track team really needs a better track (the current one is basically asphalt). On the other hand, the academic teams and performing arts need a better place to perform. The band and its supporters have grown so large that concerts are now held in the gym. The acoustics in a gym are horrendous and completely unacceptable for a band or choral concert.
While I agree with the plans for expansion, I don't agree with the means of funding. According to your article on Nov. 6, the performing arts center is to be funded by the public. The football stadium and all of the associated costs will be taken care of by the school board. Why does sports receive funding from the schools, but the performing arts is left to the community? WCS tried the same approach when the new high school was built. There was a civic theater group that was going to build a nice theater that the school system would be able to use. Unfortunately, the group disbanded before the theater was built. I suggest that the school system pay for the performing arts center and let the community pay for the stadium. I am sure that the recent success of Coach Jensen and the Tiger football program would be enough to convince many businesses in the community to contribute to a new stadium. Since all of the academic achievements of the "nerds," as Luke Harris put in his letter, are largly ignored by the community, I feel that there would not be nearly as much support from area businesses. There has been some support for the performing arts by local businesses, but not for academics and not nearly as much as there is for athletics.
In conclusion, if the school board wants to show that they care as much about academics and the performing arts as they do about athletics, then they should use WCS funds for the performing arts center and let the community build the stadium.
Josh Crim
WCHS Class of 2000
Warsaw, via e-mail
Thanksgiving Prayer
Editor, Times-Union:This is submitted for use by any of your readers before or on Thanksgiving Day.
We give thee thanks, our Heavenly Father, that we are privileged to live in this pleasant land, a land founded under Thee, our God!
We thank Thee for those men and women who settled here over 200 years ago, in order that they might live in the light of freedom, and worship thee according to the dictates of their consciences.
Help us to be aware that the rights and privileges we enjoy were and are being bought and paid for by others' sacrifices. May we ever be grateful for those who have and are loving and laboring, even today, to continue this our beloved country free and under thee.
We ask this in humbleness and in thanksgiving and in Jesus' name. Amen.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
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School Expansion
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to add my two cents into the current debate over school expansion plans. As a former student at WCHS I participated in band, track and the speech team. I have seen both sides of the debate. The football team needs a new stadium and the track team really needs a better track (the current one is basically asphalt). On the other hand, the academic teams and performing arts need a better place to perform. The band and its supporters have grown so large that concerts are now held in the gym. The acoustics in a gym are horrendous and completely unacceptable for a band or choral concert.
While I agree with the plans for expansion, I don't agree with the means of funding. According to your article on Nov. 6, the performing arts center is to be funded by the public. The football stadium and all of the associated costs will be taken care of by the school board. Why does sports receive funding from the schools, but the performing arts is left to the community? WCS tried the same approach when the new high school was built. There was a civic theater group that was going to build a nice theater that the school system would be able to use. Unfortunately, the group disbanded before the theater was built. I suggest that the school system pay for the performing arts center and let the community pay for the stadium. I am sure that the recent success of Coach Jensen and the Tiger football program would be enough to convince many businesses in the community to contribute to a new stadium. Since all of the academic achievements of the "nerds," as Luke Harris put in his letter, are largly ignored by the community, I feel that there would not be nearly as much support from area businesses. There has been some support for the performing arts by local businesses, but not for academics and not nearly as much as there is for athletics.
In conclusion, if the school board wants to show that they care as much about academics and the performing arts as they do about athletics, then they should use WCS funds for the performing arts center and let the community build the stadium.
Josh Crim
WCHS Class of 2000
Warsaw, via e-mail
Thanksgiving Prayer
Editor, Times-Union:This is submitted for use by any of your readers before or on Thanksgiving Day.
We give thee thanks, our Heavenly Father, that we are privileged to live in this pleasant land, a land founded under Thee, our God!
We thank Thee for those men and women who settled here over 200 years ago, in order that they might live in the light of freedom, and worship thee according to the dictates of their consciences.
Help us to be aware that the rights and privileges we enjoy were and are being bought and paid for by others' sacrifices. May we ever be grateful for those who have and are loving and laboring, even today, to continue this our beloved country free and under thee.
We ask this in humbleness and in thanksgiving and in Jesus' name. Amen.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
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