Additionally, if this community is to grow, and become more than a place where our unemployment rate continues to be one of the highest in the nation and we are still looked at as simply an agribusiness community, then we need to expand our horizons . . . The attitude that people will continue to come to Yakima to live and work will soon be a dream of the past if we don't address the future. Somehow, the traffic impact will take care of itself until then. Money for the town, money for the businesses, especially hotels and motels and restaurants. This town has spent so much time trying to stay an agriculture town even though the agriculture is diminishing.
More money needs to be brought in and sports can do it.
We have to start somewhere if we plan to grow. This city needs to wake up and realize that sports are not the only thing out there. Why doesn't the city invest in something that will make real money like a year round fun park. She provides coffee on Sunday mornings before church, pitchers of ice water for people in classrooms on hot summer days, plans food for the families of people who have lost loved ones and helps out those who have no other place to go. She is seldom recognized and never toots her own horn.