I'm not a smoker. I never have been and I never will be! Remember that, and try to get the real picture about why I will vote "NO" on the Amarillo smoking ban when you read the following.
The Amarillo Activity Center was founded by LaRue and Matthew Hite in April of 2007. Shortly after that time the board of directors agreed and bought the former downtown YMCA building at 816 S Van Buren and began creating the AAYC. Although the AAYC is in it´s infancy it still houses the AAYC Teen Scene, Amarillo Blades Program, and the AAYC Childcare Facility. As the AAYC grows so will it´s programs and services to the youth of Amarillo.
Since nobody else will talk about it here, then I will say something about it. What's with all the hype of the bads of the traffic cameras at the red lights? Why is everyone so concerned that it's going to invade your privacy? If you are driving on a public street then you are in public and anyone can see you or take a picture of you anyways. If you are so concerned that your wife is going to see a picute of you and your mistress driving through a red light, then maybe you shoudln't run the light and you won't have to worry.
I have been coming to your site for a long time and I applaud you and what you have tried to do.
I moved from Amarillo about 16 months ago because there is nothing worth staying for in Amarillo. Now I've got a job making about twice what I could ever make in Amarillo, and there is such a nightlife in Austin. I will never come back to that red-neck hole in the ground again.
Ok after reading today's newspaper about the TIRZ thing and about Potter county want's to only pay their fair share, I have to ask this? Why the hell is everyone so concerned about making downtown Amarillo into downtown big city America.
Why is so much of my hard earn money being used to rebuild a crumbling part of this town? Amarillo is doing fine, and downtown is just what it is. Why not tell big businesses to come in and rebuild it and rename the part they build after their product, like they do in big cities. ie-American Airlines Center and Smirnof Center in Dallas!
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