Warnersville vitriol
It is disappointing that some members of the Warnersville community have been so venomous in their opposition to Greensboro College’s sports facility there.
This is not as if someone is building an oil refinery or a hazardous waste facility.
We’re talking baseball and soccer, folks.
We’re also talking about a college that has made numerous good-faith overtures, including scholarships for neighborhood youth.
I sometimes wonder of the opponents have so relished being against the sports park that they even want a positive outcome.
Their words are so mean, almost hateful.
And if anyone cares to question how I’d feel if such a facility were placed in my neighborhood, they are welcome to ask. There already is one.
Greensboro Day School’s baseball park adjoins my development, The Harbor.
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First there is nothing wrong with a oil refinery!
Second you must remember, folks are against anything now!
All of us make trash, however try to get a place to dispose of it.
Not in my back yard.
We all use energy, when someone tries to produce it, all hell breaks loose!
Posted on April 10, 2009 7:04 AM
I agree, Allen: I mean it's not like they're trying to put a drug store there. I, too, have a sports complex across from my house (UNCG's), and it's a nice place to run, bike, hit golf balls, and have your yard illuminated for free when the soccer lights are on.
And you're dead on about relishing the battle. It's like white southerners and the Civil War: they got a lot more pleasure out of it by losing than the North got by winning. It's a peculiar phenonomenon, the comforts of trauma.
Posted on April 10, 2009 11:13 AM
The mindset of victimization is difficult to overcome.
Posted on April 10, 2009 1:06 PM
Margaret Pinnix has a problem. Her problem is she hates. I have parked on Doak Street over one hundred times, not to play ball but to visit a home over the last 18 years. The city park on Doak is beautiful and large. Jones School is just down the street. The Price campus faces a freeway. The road to the campus is just after the Eugene Street bridge leading to a parking lot. The campus is isolated except for a church that sits on a hill nearby. The Warnersville community is lucky to be able to walk to downtown, maybe take in a Grasshoppers game (across the railroad track a ten minute walk). I know Beasly Street. I visit a there home often. There are signs stating 2 hour parking limit-car will be towed..but the street is two blocks from a major university, not a sportscomplex that would be excellent except for Otis.
Posted on April 10, 2009 4:31 PM
Margaret Pinnix has a problem. Her problem is she hates. I have parked on Doak Street over one hundred times, not to play ball but to visit a home over the last 18 years. The city park on Doak is beautiful and large. Jones School is just down the street. The Price campus faces a freeway. The road to the campus is just after the Eugene Street bridge leading to a parking lot. The campus is isolated except for a church that sits on a hill nearby. The Warnersville community is lucky to be able to walk to downtown, maybe take in a Grasshoppers game (across the railroad track a ten minute walk). I know Beasly Street. I visit a there home often. There are signs stating 2 hour parking limit-car will be towed..but the street is two blocks from a major university, not a sportscomplex that would be excellent except for Otis.
Posted on April 10, 2009 4:31 PM