Saturday, April 11, 2009

HFY Learn To Swim Program

Hearts For Youth [HFY] has sponsored the Learn to Swim Program for several years.  Our son along with all of his friends learned to swim in this program. Becoming a swimmer allows the child to enjoy this recreation for life.  A strong swimmer can also assist and save another swimmer in distress.

A Letter To The Editor  in today's WDT asks this question: Isn't teaching our children to swim more important than having clean golf balls?  Mr. Erck talks about certain improvements to the golf course and wonders why the VB has not increased their contribution of $10,000 annually to offset the rising costs of running the youth programs.

I thought I would give Mr. Erck another piece of information that might be useful.  Recently Trustee Sweet "jumped on an opportunity" to purchase bleachers for the village tennis courts.  $2000.00 [approx] for those bleachers!  I guess I never realized that we had that many spectators to justify spending that amount for a short seasoned sport.

Other Spending info:

$26,000.00 for a new police car and $6000.00 for renovations for the Police Dept............certainly the Village can afford to contribute more to the HFY program.........
I would like to see the VB increase their contribution to the HFY to $15,000.00 so we do not cut our youth programs short.............

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