Yesterday, I told you about our weekend frolicking in the slush drizzle winter weather last weekend in the greater Hazleton area. I saved two photos to share today. One is of the pretty bandstand located in the Hazle Township Community Park:
I can just picture the crowd on a warm June evening. Gray-haired bespectacled couples parked in lawn chairs. Dads wearing wife-beaters and sporting mullets. Moms trying to shush their children as the Elvis impersonator community band performs.
The other photo is of the sign that so warmly greeted us as we parked our car in the lot:
WELCOME TO OUR PARK! HERE'S A LIST OF STUFF YOU CAN'T DO! ENJOY YOUR VISIT AND PLEASE, COME AGAIN SOON!
What kind of welcome is that? A big list of NO's, with a bonus threat of a $300 fine OR JAIL? Do I get to choose which one?
We started calling this the Park of NO. Apparently, some of the Township's youth felt similarly scolded as they took aim at the sign with their paintball guns.
Dear Hazle Township: How about trying to sell your park's finer features first, like all those nice pavilions and the nifty band shell and that cool playground, too - and then including a gentle list of no-no's?
As I was composing this post, I looked up the Township's website so that I could link it to the bandstand photo. I will simply say this about the website: Go here and read the "Notices" printed in green, and tell me, do you think they were written by the same person?
It's all in the presentation, people.
