Well Whaddaya Know
The Peoria Park District changed their Proctor Recreation Center photo on their Historical Places web page to this-
Yeah, I liked my photo better too, and nah, I wasn’t going to sue, although a link would have been nice… I was just giving you guys at the Park District a little friendly ribbing. Beautiful building, inside and out. Too bad this gem is so under utilized.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:09 am
PI,
Your picture was WAY better.
Jennifer
June 27th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Wonder who they stole that one from…..or the others on their site for that matter.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Thanks, Jennifer.
tsheets, you read my mind.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I served 31/2 years on the Park Advisory Board. Tim asked me to head up a study to see what could be done. I envolved a cross section of the community including a police officer. We came up with many good ideas including recommending that the Proctor manager did not have to go thru Dennis Manntick, for all requests because as described he appeared not to care whether the roof leaked, repairs needed to be made, etc.
Bonnie Noble sat through every meeting at Proctor so she was sure nothing negative was said about her as an administrator.
I presented my facts, approved by the commitee to a full board meeting.
Not one thing was changed or added. Now I hear they are planning to spend $300,000 at Proctor. I asked one of the board members what was going to be done to cost 300,000.00.
He said he didn’t know.
No one should kid themselves. The PPD is Bonnie Noble and her go to person is Tim. When I asked Tim then why they didn’t get out from under the large yearly losses and the underutilization, he said they couldn’t do that.
Yet they gave Meinen, Vonachen or Shea park grounds to Bradley in exchange for a few dollars and some future “pie in the sky”.