Nonprofits work to fill gap lost to fireworks sales - Santa Cru...

Was the fireworks sale the only fundraiser these organizations did all year? If so sounds pretty lazy. What other easy, quick, non labor intensive, fundraisers did they do?
Happy to see the PVCC worked hard last week end.
Hope that "labor intensive" work wasn't too much for them.

So many LAZY people crying about money they don't have. If you want something, you have to WORK hard for it.

Besides that, the Pajaro Valley should be looking towards funding some books in English for the students rather than putting so much into sports. Although sports might build team skills and such, none of that does any good if their brains are continuously staying below state standards (and let's face it, state standards are pretty low).

Folks, it is genuinely criminal for any and all of Watsonville's officially connected "nonprofit" entities to EVER have ANY such funding problems in Watsonville.

Why?(you might ask)

Because, the City and PVUSD already own the Taxpayer's spectacular local PUBLIC BENEFIT facility - a genuine FACTORY FOR PRINTING LOCAL CHARITABLE MONEY - called "the mello center" - worth some ten to twenty million of OUR TAX DOLLARS today - right on the campus of "Perpetually Needy" Watsonville High School - right in the midst of "Perpetually Needy" Watsonville.

But, instead of using the Taxpayer's massive investment to effectively project genuine local Public Benefit, these local HOODS have created their own FRAUDULENT 501(c)(3) called PVPAA and empowered THEIR OWN specially favored "Agent" to skim off all the Taxpayer's pre purchased Public Benefit FOR THEMSELVES.

Want "Proof"?

Just allow ME and Bay Concert Arts to PROPERLY UTILIZE the Public's own Steinway D at the Public's own "mello center".

We can EASILY replace ALL THOSE MISSING FUNDS through our long proposed series of LOCAL PUBLIC BENEFIT fund raising concerts.

Just allow "Watsonville's Own" genuinely local ME and Bay Concert Arts - the real local professionals - to finally express ourselves powerfully once again in Watsonville.

Sure, I'm "just" the local piano player, so why should I "be allowed" to perform in my home town?

Because, "stimulating the local performing arts" is what HENRY MELLO SAID they were building "the mello" for.

break a nail wrote:

Was the fireworks sale the only fundraiser these organizations did all year? If so sounds pretty lazy. What other easy, quick, non labor intensive, fundraisers did they do?
Happy to see the PVCC worked hard last week end.
Hope that "labor intensive" work wasn't too much for them.

Amen!

For the education programs that missed out on free money, please answer the following:
- How many students work at these fundraisers, to help their own cause?
- How many students get a job to help pay for the extra-curricular activities?
- How many of the so-called "educational" programs actually provide any necessary curriculum that counts towards a college-preparatory diploma (or a measly high school diploma for that matter)?

For the other non-profits that lost out:
- How much more crying is going to be done over you not getting money, so our homes and businesses don't get destroyed by idiots who abuse fireworks?

I am not only grateful for the powers-that-be for finally making a wise and publicly beneficial decision, I am grateful to not have to see dozens of fireworks eyesore displays littering our cities, and for the relative peace and quiet (much fewer emergency calls - which equals less taxes being used, much less "news" stories on those emergency calls).

the cow says - MOOOOO wrote:

So many LAZY people crying about money they don't have. If you want something, you have to WORK hard for it.
Besides that, the Pajaro Valley should be looking towards funding some books in English for the students rather than putting so much into sports. Although sports might build team skills and such, none of that does any good if their brains are continuously staying below state standards (and let's face it, state standards are pretty low).

Must be a red thinker. A blue thinker would never put someone else down for wanting everything for nothing, and not caring about the things they actually need. Amen to you, red thinker!

No one wants to admit that California standards are low. No one wants to admit that "No Child Left Behind" has actually left more students behind that it has helped. No one wants to admit that today's youth are generally lazy and irresponsible (and their parents made them that way). No one wants to admit that we should actually teach our children anything (let alone the National language of English).

If you nail the public school teachers to the wall on what they teach, they insist that our education system is the best. If you compare them to national standards, or world standards, then you must not be an educator because you don't know what you're talking about. If you call then on making close to the same amounts as our emergency personnel, then you truly don't know how hard it is to have four months of a calendar year off (summer, holidays, breaks, etcl), that you only have to work 4-6 hours a day (most public schools start after 8am and are done by 2pm), and that it is hard coming up with new gimmicks to reduce teaching responsibilities (whole learning, cooperative learning, and other failed teaching paradigms).