Editor:
Let the kids learn to work for their needs or do without!
I remember when our team would have car washes on weekends during the summer and part of the spring and fall at the old Gulf gas station on Broadway road across from Mesa High 'Jack Rabbit' stadium.
The cheerleaders and pom pom girls would show up in bright pink hot shorts (that they had made themselves) along with the entire football team and many other supporting students and parents.
Not only did we raise enough money to buy pads, uniforms and equipment for the entire A and B teams but we also raised enough to pay for the cheerleaders and pom pom girls' patterns and materials.
The girls sewed and made their own outfits!
And we also paid the water bill for the Gulf station!
We also all had enough spending money (from mowing lawns and doing odd jobs) to make it out to the old Mezona Dance Hall on the evenings for the local teen dance. And I also might add that none of us were overweight!
You never heard anyone bitchin’ and moaning or saying GIVE us money by raising your property taxes!
YOU would have been laughed right out of Mesa, Arizona!
This taught us that if we wanted something, we had to work for it!
Nothing was for free!
And if the kids are too lazy to wash cars then why not have a big band dance at the Payson Indian casino and charge $50 per person to get in.
The place will be packed!
The last big band dance at the Payson Indian casino got $200 per person. And they raised plenty of money!
The educators and some of the public in Payson are sending the WRONG MESSAGE to our youth.
Our kids need to work for it, or do without!
I voted NO on the "school property tax increase," and I also voted NO on the town "home rule".
Bill Peterson
From Mesa Arizona, retired in Payson Arizona
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I remember when coffee was five cents a cup and movies were a quarter. I remember when you had to walk five miles in the snow to go to school.
Ahhh, the good old days.
Why on earth would someone want to "retire" to Payson, AZ from the great city of Mesa? Must have been back in 1980 when the population of Payson was five thousand, more or less. If Home Rule is defeated, most likely it will go back to that.
Here's to you, Kid. We'll always have Walmart. (won't we?)
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