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Every dollar spent on these campaign promises, on these two ballot measures, is another dollar that could be spent on a true solution to some of the city's real problems, to the deficit, to the potholes, to park maintenance.

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

As such, I think it was a good investment, and Ford Park is not a bad idea. It's just that not enough people were brought into the mix to guarantee it's going to be successful.

As the world's largest soccer complex, the new Rapids stadium in Commerce City will revolutionize the sport of soccer in Colorado and change the face of the sport in the region, ... Alongside stadium developments in other cities across America and the recent opening of Pizza Hut Park in Texas, this facility is further proof that soccer in the United States continues to gain momentum.

At one point, we probably had 70 cell phones ringing at once, ... It sounded like Bally's Park Place.

Attendance was up, restaurant and hotel lodgings were up. Theme park attendance was up.

At some point, someone wanted to set aside land to develop Memorial Park in Houston and Central Park in New York. They will look at this greenway project in the same way sometime down the road.

At night, it's hard to control people. Drunks might come in, and we can't do anything. We (close the gates) to avoid violence, prevent vagrants from sleeping inside, and (for proper park maintenance).

A significant amount of money has been spent on that park with no council discussion ahead of time.

At this point, there isn't an obvious place to park money, ... A number of strategies that produced good returns in the past are no longer profitable. A lot of the smart money is sitting on the sidelines right now just waiting for the direction to change.

At this point (the conclusion of the project), we'll create a larger presence in the community. They will identify the park as a place for recreation.

At the time we were planning the building, ... Joyce wanted to include a sensory park. But the budget wouldn't let us do both projects, so we agreed to work on the park when there was money to do so.

Community gardens are such benefits to the city and to our parks. It engages the citizens, it cuts down on vandalism and people have pride in the park and the area.

Commerce is always preceded by explorers. We now have Yellowstone Park but long before you had Yellowstone Park, you had to have Lewis and Clark map the Louisiana purchase. We are the Lewis and Clarks of the underwater world. and those can only lead to economic benefits, not only to America, but to the world.

CORD is concerned about some really legitimate things, like being able to get to your driveway, like being able to park in front of your house and not having some patient's car blocking your car so you can't get out,

Countless images of suffering people and animals have bludgeoned our consciences in the past week, and we have all felt rather helpless, ... Now it's time for the 'Horse Capital of the World' to step up to the plate and do something. In no way are we diminishing the first priority of helping the people who have been affected by the hurricane, but we have received numerous calls and email from people who want to know what they can do to help the animals in that region and in particular, the horses. One of our objectives at the Kentucky Horse Park is to help promote equine welfare, so we are honored to be working alongside the folks at the National Horse Center to meet the urgent needs of these horses and horsemen.

Downtown, you have to park and walk. We have plenty of parking right outside the door.

Doug brings valuable management experience. He's an enthusiastic leader who has a successful track record of working extremely well with employees, physicians and community members, which is most recently demonstrated by the many successes he has helped to achieve at Estes Park Medical Center.

Don't leave the engine running or the keys in the ignition. Park it in a garage if you can.

Don't do it if you really don't have to. I wouldn't park down there, period.

(Cook) couldn't have made all of it up. Because he was in the park that day.

Every April is sort of like Christmas. Opening Day comes and the changes in the park every year seem to be better and better, and this year is by the far the biggest and best yet. To have a beautiful, sunny day and 65 degrees to show it off is just extraordinary.

Edinburgh have never won against Llanelli at Stradey Park but our intention this weekend is to turn that around.

Each year we try to make our park better than the last, and this year I am confidant we have accomplished just that. We have had several delays to the park opening, but it was an excellent Christmas surprise and I think people will find it was worth the wait.

Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.

During the next couple of weeks, the park will really begin to take shape.

During the month of January, we issued a lot of tickets for meter violations. I think it is because we let people park for free during the month of December.

Every young footballer can remember watching their hero play and wanting to emulate them on the park or the school playground, ... I'd now like to see the chairmen of all football clubs back the football authorities in their desire to clean up the game.

There was absolutely no footing I don't know how you could come off the ball or cut. It was like some sort of amusement park ride.

There's a good chance the park would not exist without this partnership.

There's going to be a very large park there, much bigger than just the waterfront walkway, ... The garden is already there, so that helps. It was the site of the evacuation center and it has a perfect view of downtown Manhattan from that site. It will honor not those who died and those who worked there, but everyone who came off that ferry that day. It's a beautiful site for a lasting memorial.

The town is excited to have the actual vehicles from the classic Batman TV show and The Flintstones movie available for viewing at The Town of Hempstead September Seaside Spectacular Collectors' Car Show, ... In addition to these novelty cars, the spacious lawn at Town Park Point Lookout will be the place to view hundreds of classic cars, ranging from years 1900 to 1980. Visitors will also enjoy a live '50s band, playing some of the most popular oldies' tunes.

The trails travel through Colorado's natural treasures like Rocky Mountain National Park and the Great Sand Dunes. They roam quietly with vagabond creeks, saunter through pageants of wildflowers, and soar with high mountain summits.

The Tommy G. Thompson Youth Center at State Fair Park has 950 beds, and there is room at South Milwaukee Community Center that would house about 200 people.

The timing is perfect. Our five-day Festival of Murals culminates on Saturday, May 6, which happens to be the first day of the garden tour. Besides the botanical features that Poplar Head Park has to offer, there also will be several art and musical activities taking place.

The time and knowledge that Joe gave to the park was immeasurable. It far outweighed what he donated in terms of physical materials, and in the process I gained a wonderful friend.

The timber sale is a part of Custer State Park's ongoing forest management program, ... Much of the emphasis on the forest management in the Needles area of the park is focused on overall forest health. The timber sale is aimed at reducing forest density, which is very high in this area of the park. Currently, mountain pine beetle is active in the area and reduced forest stand density will help prevent epidemic levels of mountain pine beetle. Lower stand densities will also protect against catastrophic damage from wildfire.

I still do push-ups and sit-ups. But I also try to do things such as walking up the stairs, and not taking a lift. I'll also park my car farther away from a store so I have to walk a few steps more. If you keep it up over a long period, you don't have to do too much.

I sent out an e-mail yesterday that people who fled the storm to lodges and cabins get to stay. People like you and me who still have a place to stay but who had a reservation at the park will get a gift certificate, or a room at another state park. I don't think that will be a problem with anyone who has an ounce of humanity in his bones.

I've been there before. At Deer Park (1984-1996) the school had only made the playoffs in 1956 and 1974 (since its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s). We made the playoffs nine of the 12 years I was there. Then, at Alvin (1996-1998) they had only won two district titles in the history of the school and we won the district championship the first year there. (made playoffs for first time in 32 years).

It would give us the best linear park in the United States and increase the drawing power of the river ... that would make this City even greater.

I understand that the park has a concern with what to do with the alligator. I think they should just keep the thing in there. Post signs, fence it off.

They are all great to me. If you had to pick one out, yeah, it's this one just because of the grade. But I don't know. The race at Belmont Park was pretty exciting. He really showed his courage and his talent that day.

They agreed to have their volunteers and vendors and everyone park off site and they were going to provide a shuttle to bring them back and forth.

They added a park up there. People were able to fix up their homes ... There was a lot of excitement about it when it was going on, to put in new street lights. It was just a wonderful program. We need to fund that again and go to the next neighborhood.

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

These are the rules for this. The first rule was I could only park for my walks in public places like this one.

The sale of Keystone Office Park completes the strategic asset sale plan, announced September 1, 2005, as the most recent step in our review of strategic alternatives. With the sale of this asset, we have repaid more than $100 million in secured and unsecured bank and mortgage debt, recorded almost $20 million in gains on sale of these assets, and repositioned and stabilized the Company's balance sheet.

The saying goes, it's not bulls, not bears, but chickens who put their money in cash; they park it there and wait for better opportunities, ... So those chicken investors, and retirees and income investors, have reason to be thrilled about the rates, because for the first time in a while they're going to be paid decently to sit there.

The Rose Parade is a wonderful way for us to highlight our ongoing celebration of five decades of Disney theme park magic. Our parks are magical experiences that offer creatively unique entertainment that appeals to families the world over, transcending geographic and cultural barriers to simply speak the international language of fun -- that's pretty magical.

The role of the park service is to preserve history. New units are created yearly, which tend to be historic places that educate people about important events.

I've shot a lot of places, and I've produced. I always thought, 'Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it's so difficult.' And New York, I always think, 'Where are you going to park the trucks? How are you going to stop the traffic?'

I've never seen a ball leave the park like that before.

It was tough today. On days like today this park can keep games a lot closer than they should be.

These changes will produce an even better Olympic Park - a sign of our determination not to sit on our laurels after Singapore but to refine our plans to deliver excellence for athletes, spectators, media and the entire Olympic family.

These proposals for the national park system are unconscionable. It's hard to believe anyone could even contemplate drafting something this extreme.

The situation is critical. We are trying to deliver food and medicine to park staff who are courageously trying to continue monitoring the situation of the rhinos in spite of the difficulties imposed by the war, ... However, this attack and the fact that it happened in the heart of the rhino territory lead us to believe that the world may have to prepare itself for the loss of a unique rhino subspecies.

These lists are useful because they highlight problems within the park system for the public.

The sight of so many visitors in Central Park in mid-February has been nearly as thrilling as 'The Gates' itself,

The targets are another interesting thing to have for the park related to what was here when it was an Army post.

The thought behind it was fantastic but Hyde Park is a charisma-free zone.

The supporters are frustrated, we are ourselves, and we know we owe them because they follow us all round the country. The rugby they've seen at Kingston Park this season, apart from half-an-hour against Bath, has been extremely poor, and hopefully, with a clean slate and a new competition on Sunday we can go some way to repaying them.

The Super Bowl doesn't turn a trailer park city into a gleaming palace overnight.

The summer concerts in Stone Park have been one of my passions.

The South Park coach made a classy gesture by presenting the game ball to our starting pitcher and then she went home and had the ball cut in half and gave the other half to April, which I thought was pretty cool.

The thing that originally attracted us to this development was the park on the Guadalupe River. It's 60 acres left in its natural state.

I've always been interested in wolves, since I was a child. There was a wolf enclosure in a wildlife park very close to where I was brought up; they were the main attraction.

I used to think that I kept playing to keep my mom alive. There was no joy going to the park and I couldn't figure out why I was playing. You never know when something is going to hit you.

I visited Fuller every day for the first 20 or 30 years of my life. In those days, there was no pool and the park had limited amenities. Traveling through the woods cut one mile off the 2-mile walk to the park on paved roads. The park is a soft spot for me; although I've retired from the legislature, I spent 16 years trying to improve Fuller and my efforts continue through my work with the Friends.

I wanted to do something to enhance the park that the kids would be able to use and enjoy. I meet a lot of mothers that go to other parks because there's not much to do at Orchard Park.

Teenage male elephants in a South African game park stopped their delinquent behavior after several adult bulls were introduced into the herd.

Technology Enterprise Park is the latest addition to the successful and ongoing efforts to foster the commercialization of research at Georgia Tech through Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures.

Televised local pro wrestling. It is one thing to watch several WWE rejects wrestle each other but the best part is watching all of Steve Reed's neighbors from the mobile home park that show up for these events.

Sometime next week somebody will come out to assess the clean-up ordered today, and some time in the next two or three weeks we're going to send inspectors out there to walk the park and see if there are other hazards that should be corrected.

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.

Sadly, the Bush administration's sellout of Yellowstone to the snowmobile industry overrides the professional judgment of park rangers and the men and women charged with ensuring the health of our environment nationwide.

Our condolences are offered to the families of both individuals and our thoughts are with them at this time, ... In the interest of public safety, we are restricting access to certain areas of the park until further notice.

Our concern is it's already a flood zone, so why would FEMA want to pay the owner of the trailer park so much money a month to house people in a zone that could be flooded again?

People said that they would be much more willing to attend American Stage in the Park if we would program something other than Shakespeare, specifically musicals. The musicals we will do will still be uniquely American Stage. They will be musicals you would not likely see a (touring) Broadway series.

People can spend the whole day in the beautiful park with its fountains and sculptures. It's like an oasis in downtown Scottsdale.

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.

Officers drive by that park constantly, since it's right up from the precinct.

Of course we do not want to spoil the fun of the visitors by making them queue for a long time, or they may not be used to queuing for so long. That's why we are discussing with Disney to see if we could have flexible arrangements, like during certain days, when the number of people entering the park reaches a certain figure, they should not let the park become too crowded.

Of course, they're supposed to park in designated parking areas. ... It would be the city's responsibility to ticket him.

After the Deer Park win, which was a big win, all three of us coaches agreed that we gotta get their feet back on the ground. As big a win as that was for the team and the school, we had to come back down to earth and we had to play.

The museum is truly an economic driver. I like the idea of having bigger and better shows there. But you've got to balance that against the value of a waterfront park system. I'm not for losing an inch of parkland.

The move to PAETEC Park means we'll finally have our own revenue streams from concessions, parking and naming rights. We appreciate that. Most teams raise ticket prices when they move into a new stadium, but most of our seats will be cheaper.

A developer might propose construction of a shopping center that will wipe out the habitat of an endangered species. Once the developer has been compensated for that use, he or she can propose an office park on the site and become entitled to compensation again.

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

Some teams want a pitchers' park and some teams want a hitters' park. That's not the case in St. Louis. ... It's a fair playing field. It doesn't favor either pitcher or batter. Frankly, that's a carryover from what old Busch Stadium had.

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.

So the building is transparent. The library is in the park and the park is in the library.

Spain Park is a good football team but our problem is we're not playing like a great football team right now. We're obviously not clicking right now.

Oil Park is close to campus, but cosmetically it isn't the most attractive. However, they do a great job of preparing the field and making it ready to play on.

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

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Coach Nash is a good guy. He gives you straight facts, tells you the way it is. They've got a real beautiful campus down there, and it's still close enough to come home when I want to. The ball field ? it's not Newman Park ? but it's nice.

Despite not winning, a game like this will only make us better. As long as I can remember, Averill Park hasn't won a girls' basketball championship. We're looking to change that. Our motto is, 'One practice, one game at a time.' And that's not going to change.

Any money put into Clarence Park is wasted when we move and we can't afford to lose as much money as last season so we just have to be so careful.

A pond with a park is a benefit for the city, if the taxpayer doesn't have to pay for it. I'm sure people would use them.