Every Kid Deserves to Play: Letter Writer Asks for Help Rebuilding Small School’s Condemned Playground
Welcome to our letters to the editor/opinion section. To submit yours for consideration, please send to [email protected]. Please consider including an image to be used–either a photograph of you or something applicable to the letter. However, an image is not necessary for publication.
Remember opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect that of Redheaded Blackbelt nor have we checked the letters for accuracy.
The Bridgeville playground was condemned.
Last fall, the Bridgeville School’s playground was condemned by the Humboldt County Office of Education. The community has struggled to raise money to build a new playground. This plea for help came late yesterday.
We’re pitching in. Can you?
To the Editor,
I am writing in regards to a travesty. Bridgeville students have been without a playground for a whole year now. The community has sold baked goods, solicited person-to-person donations, put up donation jars around the community, went to local businesses and also received several grants from local and national foundations. The school is getting closer to it’s goal but we need your help to achieve this. Join us in our campaign to bring back this recreational opportunity to our extremely remote students by making a donation through our GoFundMe campaign.
Here is the link. https://www.gofundme.com/
bbrsfd-every-kid-deserves-to- play Carl Campbell
Join the discussion! For rules visit: https://kymkemp.com/commenting-rules
Comments system how-to: https://wpdiscuz.com/community/postid/10599/
🕯🌳Now this is a noble cause, thank you Kym for the information and the link.
It is a good cause. Kids need lots of time outdoors playing. I pitched in. I hope others will, too.
Thank you Kim! Five of my kids attend bridgevlle elementary 💓
I hope they can have a playground soon.
Bridgeville is an engaged an supportive community, but a very small one. It is so hard to raise enough funds locally in an area this small, if the broader community chipped in it can make it happen!
All those millions of dollars the county took for permits and still there’s no money for a school playground in one of the communities that was hit the hardest by legalization. Also the roads are still fucked. Glad the supervisors gave themselves a raise. They’re doing a bang up job.
Agree completely. Funds should be made available to the communities being hit hardest.
So people who suffered a loss in income when their illegal business was made legal should be compensated? Hmm…
What?
What? This is not about compensating growers. It’s about seeing a portion of tax funds collected through legalization, generated in this area, and back to the schools and communities. Are you suggesting that children and families should be punished for all this?
People make the most obvious manipulations of reality. What Notbuyinit said was that money collected by regulation of formerly illegal profits should be used to cover their expenses because they are no longer raking it in. If he had said this money should be used in all school systems for all children than I would have not be able to point out the self centered selfishness that seems to surround pot in every aspect. Get over it- you can’t claim its “for the children” when it’s all about complaining about government regulating their own profits. Welcome to literally everyone else’s world.
why should that matter ? why should kids not have a playgrou d at school? and why not show kids that why their parnets pay taxes it goes towards things they need instead if merely disapearing and them not reciving any bennifit from their parnets going legit ?
you seem to be very bitter.
assuming that all local monies were generated illegally in the past, or that legalisation has had zero negitive impact on the legal job markets is burying your head in the sand and singing lalala to yourself.
“condemned” for what ?
Why was the playground condemned?
The playground was an old wooden playground and the wood was rotten in it
We are talking about children here, not illegal grows that ADULTS decide to create. Because people have grown illegally out here we should punish children?
We are also talking about tax funds not supporting communities where LEGAL grows are permitted and that communities should see a portion where it’s generated. Ya know, “return to source”.
Children are 100% NOT responsible for this. We aren’t asking for compensation for illegal grows, it’s for school kids.
~well, dang. Had we have known about the $800,000 stored in F & W from grows, that went to the newly formed CalTrout, we (those who know about the schoolyard needs), coulda put in a demand.
We need an oversight committee on Abatement theft funds – ya know, “return to source” – upgrade the schoolyard for the children.
Maybe the billboard at Bear River could do a message of ‘More Deputies or, Schoolyard Safety’?
CalTrout is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) conservation group with a mission to ensure resilient wild fish in healthy waters for a better California. They formed in 1970 (in caps and bold). if you don’t know what a 501(c)(3) is, its a non-profit private sector organization.
~are you trying to tell me that the trout are all hunky-dory thanks to some non-profit scheme that’s been in place since 1970? I’d say they should give it up. There’s too many big bad juju planetary catastrophies for the CalTrout people to be effective at all. No matter how much $ is thrown at.
Two cents
not true at all. where I grew up there were no fish at all in the rivers, my dad would tell not to touch the water. The textile mills killed everything in the rivers. there is now fish and other life in all of them, some better than others but still overall better. the removal of all the barriers that backed up water for each mill was one of the most important parts of the recovery of the Atlantic salmon and brook trout. these rivers were killed 100 years ago and it only took 20 years for them to recovery.
~thank you, local observer. Good to hear of fish recovery. You have the optimism on this, i don’t.
Stuff like this is where the County & Cannabis businesses should of demanded their taxes & fees go towards! This is a shame. For all the Bridgeville businesses, churches, wealthy families, pot growers (illegal & legal), give a donation! You outta be ashamed of yourself or either incredibly selfish & greedy.
I was thinking the same thing. There’s a lot of loose cash still circulating around up there, legalization or not. We hear all the time about rich growers’ philanthropic donations to the community (Mateel, etc), yet tiny little Bridgeville School doesn’t even have a playground.
Nice job making sure the adults have a place to play, and fuck the kids, eh?
For some reason this article reminds me of this picture!