New Plymouth acquires key grant
By Jennifer Colton - Argus Observer
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 11:31 AM PDT
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| New Plymouth is one of 21 towns across Idaho that recently received funding through the Idaho Transportation Department’s Safe Routes to School program. The program is designed to provide funding for cities to improve walking and bicycling routes for school students. |
New Plymouth - Friday, the Idaho Transportation Department launched its Safe Routes to School — SR2S — program, by announcing 21 communities throughout the state will receive funding awards for safety projects — including New Plymouth.
The SR2S program will reimburse schools, communities and other organizations that improve walking and bicycling routes for school children, according to a press release from the ITD Office of Highway Operations and Safety. No monetary match is required by the communities.
New Plymouth received a $95,000 grant, with $85,000 slated to replace the curb, gutter and sidewalks from the intersection of Elm Street and Plymouth Avenue through the property border of New Plymouth Elementary School. The remaining $10,000 will be used for safety education — such as bicycle and crosswalk safety — by the Payette County Sheriff’s Office.
“We’re very pleased to get this grant, and this grant combined with the Community Block Development Grant means that from the City Hall to the elementary school will be in good shape, with new materials,” New Plymouth Mayor Moscrip said. “It should do some good. The biggest challenge is going to be between Park (Avenue) and the boulevards where there is no curb and gutter.”
At this point, Moscrip said he did not know when the work would begin, but it could be as early as this fall. The downtown work on North Plymouth Avenue will start next spring.
“We’re are absolutely tickled to receive this grant,” Moscrip said, adding New Plymouth Public Works Superintendent Beau Ziemer will develop a plan for the safety project.
Funding for the SR2S program comes from the $612 million designated in the 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act by the U.S. Congress, according to the press release, and communities were awarded based on applications and planned city pubic safety demonstrations. The New Plymouth City Council accepted the grant during its regular meeting Monday.
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Also during the meeting, the council set a budget workshop for 6 p.m. June 18 and in a 3 to 1 vote authorized Holladay Engineering to continue the scope of work for the sewer project draft engineering report.
Cody W. Ables wrote on May 16, 2008 11:04 PM:
Here is something that we should all read. This is a letter from an angry woman in New Jersey regarding the War in Iraq and all of the war’s negative publicity. Pay attention.
'Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?
Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania?
Did nearly three-thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?
And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was 'desecrated' when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don't. I don't care at all.
I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia .
I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.
I'll care when the cowardly so-called 'insurgents' in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.
I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.
I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.
When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured: I don't care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank: I don't care.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed 'special' food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts: I don't care.
Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!
If you don't agree, then by all means quit reading. Should you choose to do so, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country! And may I add:
'Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem' -- Ronald Reagan
I have another quote that I would like to add
'If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.' Also by.. Ronald Reagan
One last thought for the day:
In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the Anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England 's Prime Minister Tony Blair's words during a recent interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America , he said: 'A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.'
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
1. Jesus Christ
2. The American G. I.
Important for us all!!!!
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM. AMEN!’
I hope you take this woman’s viewpoint into consideration. It closely parallels my own. As I begin my journey in becoming a soldier of the greatest country in the world, hearing this woman’s words sets my heart at ease. It is warming to know that there are people in this great country who still care about those men and women who have no choice.
Cody W. Ables
U.S. Air Force Academy 2012
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