Comments on: Special Meeting full of FrOGs https://glenprovidencepark.org/2011/10/14/frog-makes-powerful-case-at-special-meeting/ Preserving and enhancing Delaware County's oldest park Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: shannon https://glenprovidencepark.org/2011/10/14/frog-makes-powerful-case-at-special-meeting/#comment-289 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:10:58 +0000 http://glenprovidencepark.org/?p=608#comment-289 In reply to Patricia Mellen.

Patricia, thank you for the kind words, coming especially from someone who grew up in Media. It’s likewise inspiring to hear what the Friends of Kardon Park are doing; and of course the indomitable Theodore Roosevelt’s wise words will keep us and others strong as we try to preserve and enhance our natural resources.

]]> By: Patricia Mellen https://glenprovidencepark.org/2011/10/14/frog-makes-powerful-case-at-special-meeting/#comment-288 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:42:46 +0000 http://glenprovidencepark.org/?p=608#comment-288 Looking over your website, I am so impressed by what you are doing. I grew up in Media, and I’m happy to see you are working so hard to preserve Glen Providence Park. My childhood memories include Easter egg hunts, fireworks, sledding, ice skating and hiking in Glen Providence Park. My niece, Julie, now lives in our old house in Media and hikes in Glen Providence Park often. You have a fantastic website, great Facebook page, and impressive organization! Keep it going. You are an inspiration. I live in Downingtown now, where the borough is trying to sell a public park to developers. Friends of Kardon Park sued and won. The borough appealed and the appeal was heard in Philadelphia on Feb. 15th “en Banc,” meaning all 7 of the judges on the bench heard this case. It’s that important to the future of all parks in Pennsylvania, just as the Erie Golf and Burlholme Park cases were before it. Fingers crossed that the court rules in favor parks once again, sending a message and setting a precendent that protects other parks in Pennsylvania from being damaged, leased or sold to developers.

In 1916, Theodore Roosevelt said: “Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying that ‘the game belongs to the people.’ So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”

Thank you Friends of Glen Providence Park for all your work preserving Media’s lovely park, and inspiring admirers here in Downingtown. I support you!

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