Low Hanging Fruit
A lot of us like to debate the long term, occasionally expensive, solutions for Tacoma’s issues. We want more light rail. We want trolleys. We want more parking. We want more people to walk. We don’t want a convention center, but we got one anyway. Some people want a spire to rival the Space Needle. We want more condos. We want cheaper housing. We want better restaurants – as long as their cheap enough for a college student. We want a lot a things. It’s nice to want things.
My question to you, the average reader of Exit133 that doesn’t have the $1 million to open a restaurant or the city council clout to change zoning, what can we/you do to help Tacoma? What little things would change our world? Or your world? What would build community, get people outside, or make neighbors talk more?
Imagine the little things. What if more people played horseshoes in the pits down in Wright Park? What if each of us rallied to get a tree planted, helped paint a neighbors house, or helped an elderly neighbor garden? What if we had a few more community gardens available? What if we played bocce at Point Defiance and taught everybody that asked how to play the game? What would that do for our city? Would it help a little bit? I don’t know the answer here. I’m looking to you for help. What can we do – bring along a friend or two – to make this city even better one block at a time? Think of the little things.
6 comments
T That Girl June 8, 2012
I love the idea of a food cart festival in Tacoma – I definitely plan on trying to make it – maybe it can become an annual event. Maybe next year they can have it downtown in Tollefson, or off 6th Ave, or in some other walkable neighborhood.
F fredo June 8, 2012
“We’re convinced that Tacoma is cut from the same cloth (as Paris) and we’re out to prove it.”
That’s a good one.
C Christine June 8, 2012
Too bad they put it on the same weekend as the Taste of Tacoma. (I feel stupid calling it that since virtually nothing offered is from Tacoma.) It would have more impact if it stood alone as the food-centered fair that weekend.
C Cory June 8, 2012
The Taste of Tacoma is a month earlier. Also, this is a benefit for the kids at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, come out and help support a good cause!
F fredo June 8, 2012
It’s the same day as Ethnic Fest at Wright Park.
C Christine June 8, 2012
Oops, my mistake on the month, sorry. I will go to that, the taste I will avoid, I don’t care who it benefits.