Meigs now enjoyed by all!

Wow, those Stadt-ville parks are some mean acres.

JG

???? Shelter Island (note: not an island but more of a promontory) is
nothing but Hotels and private marinas....

IIRC, the eastt side of SI Drive is an open public park, the west side
has various private developments.

JG

.. Fnq, vfa'g vg?

wrote in message
oups.com...

The Airport Authority now collects about $6.5 million annually in real
estate taxes--about 20 percent of its $29.9 million a year budget.


But uses none of it for airport operations, so those flying from DPA are not
mooching.

And if there was a wreck and the trucks were away, many of YOU would
complain.

Well-well

"No one was waiting for Greg Stanton on Sunday when he landed his
single-engine Piper Saratoga airplane at the Rogers Municipal Airport
in an emergency situation.

No crash truck. No ambulance. No first responders. "I noticed there
weren't any trucks," Stanton said. "I noticed the bay doors of the
fire station were closed. At that point I was starting to wonder, '
Where the hell is everybody?'"

The answer to Stanton's question was downtown Rogers, where,
according to Fire Chief Wesley Lewis, the crew in charge of manning
Station No. 3 - which is on the west side of the airport - was
picking up an auto part for an ambulance at Station No. 1. "It was a
fluky incident," Lewis said. "It's one of the shortest notices of an
aircraft emergency. Either we have no warning or we have 10 to 15
minutes."

In this case, the Fire Department received notice of the emergency
shortly before 10:30 a.m. when Stanton was two minutes from touching
ground. He had just taken off and was 10 miles from Rogers when smoke
began to fill the cockpit and the oil pressure started to drop. "There
was no doubt this was an emergency," Stanton said.

The nearest contingent of rescue workers was four minutes away at the
time, but they never came.

No drive by. No checkup. In fact, they didn't even roll a truck out
.....
It irked Stanton just as much, if not more, that no emergency personnel
arrived at the scene following the landing than the fact that no one
was there to greet him. "I don't care if they show up 30 minutes
later," Stanton said."

Bubba, take Greyhound next time---JG

The Mission of the Chi. PD is:
"Come Out & Play!
Discover the pleasures of Chicago Park District treasures! The Chicago
Park District manages over 220 stunning facilities throughout the city
- most can play host to your next event.
For more information about the Chicago Park District's more than 7300
acres of parkland, 552 parks, 33 beaches, nine museums, two
world-class
conservatories, 16 historic lagoons, 10 bird and wildlife gardens,
thousands of special events, sports and entertaining programs, please
continue on through the event section."

Many CPD parks aren't fit for humans. They are rundown, crime ridden,
god
forsaken places which would better serve the community if Walmart were
to
build on the property. Several downtown areas are nice but other than
that
"dump" is a better description than park.

Many urban cities have similiar problems, and non-city dwellers should
feel
grateful that cities house some unwanted residents. Walmart would
want the land for free, plus additional subsidies.

Give it to them. Think of the boon to the economy. New jobs, sales and
property tax revenue, etc. The city would be foolish not to give the
rundown drug and crime infested parks to Walmart.

Can Walmart make any deals now? Their board of directors is
short-handed.
Some kind of accident, scuba diving? snow skiing? Oh, thats right,
SPLAT!
John Denver is his co-pilot now.

JG

wrote:
Thomas Borchert wrote:
no benefit to me
or 99.999% of the population


You actually believe the stuff you're posting here, including that
little non-truth?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

DuPage population is 800,000 people, maybe 400 pilots use it, Get off
my property tax bill
you moochers. Gotta love that GOP low tax crowd, except when it
benefits them.

JG

DuPage is charging me tax for 99.99% of the roads that I do NOT use.
Please get it off MY property tax bill. (Each road ought to have a
user tax).
VL

JG wrote:
I wrote:
???? Shelter Island (note: not an island but more of a promontory) is
nothing but Hotels and private marinas....

IIRC, the eastt side of SI Drive is an open public park, the west side
has various private developments.

1) The public park is only about 200 ft wide, and is then a rocky
outcrop into the bay. It is a mile long.
2) The park is truly useless as a park. A *good* park is one that
utilizes the area to provide recreational services to native area
dwellers; *they* are the ones that support the building and maintenance
of such parks. To tell the truth, I don't know many natives that
actually use the park, except for some of those that live in Pt.Loma to
use the boat launch. I was born and raised in SD, and have been to SI
once...to eat. It's a PITA to get to unless you are already there. The
park is really just a green grass and tree buffer from the bay to the
road for protection from tidal surges (the park is bay side...SI is
near the mouth of the bay). Harbor Island has one as well. There are
much better parks in the SD area than that. (Mission Bay Park, Torrey
Pines, Chula Vista's JStreet, Mission Beach [Belmont Roller Coaster],
Ocean Beach, Carlsbad State Beach, Coronado State Beach [bay and ocean
sides], etc etc....)

Like I said, Shelter Island is nothing really but hotels and private
marinas (with an odd restaurant or two thrown in for good measure).

P.S. If you wanted to give a "good" example of a multi-use area in San
Diego, I would have chosen the East Village area. There is:
Seaport Village (businesses and Public Bayside Park)
HighRise Condos
Convention Center
(new) Petco Park
Gaslamp Quarter (ahhh, I miss the Old Spaghetti Factory)
etc.

vlado wrote:
wrote:
Thomas Borchert wrote:
no benefit to me
or 99.999% of the population


You actually believe the stuff you're posting here, including that
little non-truth?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

DuPage population is 800,000 people, maybe 400 pilots use it, Get off
my property tax bill
you moochers. Gotta love that GOP low tax crowd, except when it
benefits them.

JG

DuPage is charging me tax for 99.99% of the roads that I do NOT use.
Please get it off MY property tax bill. (Each road ought to have a
user tax).
VL

The county HWY dept. stopped its PT levy years ago, after the 4 cent
county gas tax was added. Perhaps you're refering to various Township
HWY Dept. Property Tax levies, which go towards unincorporated streets
only.

JG

Humphrey's, ahem, music venue, looks busy this year:

07/21/05 Bruce Hornsby

Fri 07/22/05 Sinbad

Sat 07/23/05 Renee Austin

Sun 07/24/05 Poco

Wed 07/27/05 Dead Can Dance

Fri 07/29/05 Linda Eder

Sun 07/31/05 The B-52's

Mon 08/01/05 Jesse Winchester
Mon 08/01/05 Marc Cohn
Mon 08/01/05 Suzanne Vega

Tue 08/02/05 Chaka Khan

Wed 08/03/05 "B.B. King Blues Festival 2005"
Wed 08/03/05 Joe Bonamassa
Wed 08/03/05 Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Thu 08/04/05 Jacqui Naylor
Thu 08/04/05 Michael McDonald

Fri 08/05/05 Lonestar

Sun 08/07/05 Air Supply

Wed 08/10/05 The Temptations

Thu 08/11/05 John Hiatt
Thu 08/11/05 Shawn Colvin

Fri 08/12/05 Dana Carvey

Sat 08/13/05 The Farmers

Sun 08/14/05 Cecilio & Kapono

Mon 08/15/05 Cowboy Junkies
Mon 08/15/05 Dar Williams

Tue 08/16/05 Bobby McFerrin
Tue 08/16/05 Chick Corea

Wed 08/17/05 Judy Collins
Wed 08/17/05 Richie Havens

Thu 08/18/05 John Legend
Thu 08/18/05 Lyfe Jennings

Fri 08/19/05 "Dave Koz & Friends"
Fri 08/19/05 Jeffrey Osborne
Fri 08/19/05 Marc Antoine
Fri 08/19/05 Praful

Mon 08/22/05 Al Jarreau
Mon 08/22/05 Cassandra Wilson
Mon 08/22/05 The Rippingtons feat. Russ Freeman

Tue 08/23/05 Trio! Stanley Clarke, Bela Fleck & Jean-Luc Ponty

Thu 08/25/05 America
Thu 08/25/05 Pure Prairie League

Fri 08/26/05 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Sun 08/28/05 The Doobie Brothers

Mon 08/29/05 Johnny Clegg Featuring Juluka & Savuka

In article .com,
wrote:

Humphrey's, ahem, music venue, looks busy this year:


Who cares? You forgot Johnny Pineapple and his band of fruits.

You STILL haven't answered the question of why did it HAVE to be
Northerly Island? Why not any other of the many parks in Chicago?