I am not one to begrudge our veterans in any way. They should have a place to go for activities, programs and socializing, and should have the ability to make it look any way they please.
Well, except if they are going to then rent it out.
This location is probably fine for the Every-Third-Thursday Bingo night, the semi-annual Pancake Breakfast and Book Drive, or the Tuesday Night Boy Scout meeting. Not so much for a birthday, shower, or wedding reception.
It's in a virtually empty strip mall (whose parking lot and landscaping has been quite neglected). Inside the walls need painting, the bathrooms are in serious need of updating, and things are just sort of heaped and piled everywhere with no rhyme or reason.
I don't know why it has to look this way - is it a funding issue? Or just run by people who don't know what they are doing? Sigh. I would love to get in there and make it look more appropriate and more deserving of these people who fought so hard for our country. Well, and people who want a hall to rent out for a something other than a spaghetti dinner. read more