- Kudos to the Champaign Park District, which actually listened to the feedback of its patrons (and taxpayers) by adding healthy foods to its menu at Sholem Aquatic Center. Instituting a new policy banning outside food on pool grounds this year without consideration of the product they were selling was incredibly short-sighted. After several weeks of complaints, as well as bad publicity in the N-G, the CPD has taken the first step to correct this issue. Now let’s see the price list …
- Wish I could temporarily discard my mommy and work hats to head over to the Beverly Theater for the Harry Potter movie marathon on Tuesday, which will culminate in the 12:01 showing of the Half-Blood Prince. It has been so long since the last one …
- There is no excuse not to see some live music this summer, especially when there are so many *free* concerts to be enjoyed. I am particularly dismayed we will miss this Friday night’s Outside at the Park event due to a previous engagement …
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LD // July 16, 2009 at 8:29 am |
The whole Sholem no food policy is just ridiculous– especially since their food is so darn expensive!
lbotp // July 16, 2009 at 9:48 am |
From a mom perspective, I agree; we hardly eat there because the food they have had was not something I would eat, let alone feed my kid. From a business perspective, CPD’s big mistake was not establishing the policy from the beginning and not getting feedback from the community on concession stand options/prices. Who knows, maybe they did.