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Home About Us B2B Club Breaking News Contact Donate Events / Programs Feedback Ideas Incubator Industry Clusters Links / Resources Progess Funds Progress Teams Public Art / Murals Publications		Breaking News June 4, 2005 - Stop the Gloom Letter to the Editor, Daily Tribune Mark your calendar for 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, June 14. Don Chesebro opens the City Band summer program. Come to Robinson Park in Wisconsin Rapids, sit back, relax, close your eyes and listen Tuesday evenings throughout June, July and early August. They're free, sponsored by your city. Speaking of tradition, doing research this winter I found an article in the Wood County Reporter dated 1912. It was about the City Band. It's been around since 1872 or 1873. The article, like a history, with names a few of us recall, reads: Morrell, Lyons and the Lyons Boys, Fritzsinger, Philleo, Wood, Muehlstein, Bandelin and Schnabel, Stainbrook, Pomainville Sr. and Doc Pomainville. It'll be a while before the city has condos or a stage for downtown entertainment, so residents will have to be content with Robinson Park and all of its distractions. A few residents preach gloom for our town. It's sad. The downtown cluster of the Community Progress Initiative is working to perish the thought, and for a few on the council who have problems visualizing tomorrow, the mayor does have a plan. We've had well over 100 years of good living leaning upon one major employer. In time with patience, Rapids again will grow. Think about the communities who lost their steel mills, those now losing their auto plants. Time is on our side. Building along our most attractive scenery will attract new residents. Speaking of new industry, let's keep in mind Renaissance Learning Systems and we have Urban Processing and the developers of Herbal Essence are progressing nicely. It only takes one entrepreneur, one creative person moving in to make a difference. Only gloomy residents with nothing to offer preach doom. EARLE GARBER Wisconsin Rapids
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