Before I get into this I want to make it clear that everyone who I am discussing is literally an Angel compared to any thing that exists within the confines of the 'Hideous Boston Horrid Zone'.
However, even Paradise has its own problems -- which may seem to be trivial to prisoners in the big Mega Cities of Perversions.
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Here, in Eagle Grove and Wright County Iowa, we have a grouping problem just like it exists everywhere in the Midwest. Not being in the HBHZ, you would think they would all be overjoyed to be together as Human Beings -- but alas -- they are separated into groups of 'Groupies'.
The political group that likes to think that they rule in the Midwest counties are called the 'Elites' by all other groups. (to be nice about it) While all lesser groups, that do not financially support them, are called the 'Mindless Unwashed' or the 'Mindless Uneducated' by the 'Elites'.
I fit into both of those groups, because I seldom take a bath and I have no desire to be educated in the ways of the 'Elites'. They think I am 'Trouble'. Everyone else thinks the 'Trouble with Iowa' is them.
However, there is usually an understanding here in Paradise that each group will ignore the others and live peacefully as a disjointed community -- until something like this happens. Then, there is a lot of squawking and complaining by the 'Unwashed'.
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It goes like this -- and you would have to live here and be in the middle of it like I am to really understand it -- but I will try nevertheless ...
Eagle Grove has a 'Wellness Center' that was built by the city elites many years ago. I shower often at the Wellness Center and I use the hot tub there.
Inside the Wellness Center is the only physical therapy facility for 25 miles in any direction. There is also a weights and pullies room for physical therapy. And, rare for Iowa, an actual therapy pool of decent size. The emphasis of the entire building is upon physical (and therefore spiritual) therapy. But! Since it has so many weight machines and pulley machines it is often used by the 'Younger Populations' (from 8 to 18) for physical exercise and improvement, which the therapists do not object to. The Wellness Center has therefore been a hub for everyone in a 25 mile radius to go to and exercise and swim and stay healthy, and to improve their health. Clients and patients even come from as far away as Pocahontas to work out and heal their wounds at the Eagle Grove Wellness Center.
So far, it all sounds like some more paradise inside of paradise; except for the 'Grouping' problem and Politics, which always want to ruin everything.
I have been going to the Wellness Center since last October because of my job injuries, and I have gotten to know all of the professional therapists there and most of the people who go there for therapy. One of the first things that I learned from them was the fact that the future of the Wellness Center is uncertain -- and -- there is a For Sale sign out on the lawn.
For four months now I have been listening to the back and forth conversations and worries of everyone there, about who will buy the Wellness Center and will it stay open. Those people (hundreds of them) really want and need the Wellness Center -- and with them I agree completely!
But it is crowded, because it was not meant to be a general recreation center. The 'Younger Populations' find it difficult or distasteful to play at a therapy center full of patients and therapists. They need their own indoor playground.
That is a good point for the current 'Elites' who have just announced a confusing news flash about building a new recreation center (in town) for 2.x million dollars. They say it is all financed by donated monies, and the center will have two indoor basketball gymnasiums -- all built by volunteer labor. As always, the Elites keep everyone else in the dark and (on schedule) announce surprises that are supposed to please the majority of the community; sneak attacks on any potential opponents. There is never a word about the citizens voting for anything at any time, which causes much grumbling.
As is to be expected, the news was very unpleasant for everyone at the Wellness Center. The new recreation center, to be completed by August of this year, is described as a large facility that only larger cities possess -- and -- since this is Iowa a lot of larger cities do not have such facilities. So, what will happen to the Wellness Center, which the city was supposed to buy and then expand with a recreation center at that location?
If you are a disinterested third party, and you look at the situation without politics -- you will say that both places are needed and should operate in tandem with each other. Why duplicate all of the equipment and professional therapists at the Wellness Center -- at the new recreation center? That would require millions more $$$$. Plus, according to the news flash from the Elites, the new recreation center will be located within half a mile of the Wellness Center. So ... whenever anyone breaks a leg or cracks a skull at the recreation center they will be able to use the Wellness Center for rehabilitation -- after they return from the hospital 15 miles away.
The creation of a new recreation center begs the pre-existence and continued existence of a Wellness Center, or there will be bad complications and repercussions. The small medical clinic here in Eagle Grove is not equipped for physical therapy at all.
What is physical therapy?
Answer: Slowly mending broken bodies that require special equipment and professional therapists to heal such problems slowly. And in all such cases, only 'Slow' works.
Plus, the professional therapists at the Wellness Center are very competent and kind and understanding; literally the best that I have ever seen. All of this is happening at Eagle Grove, unknown to the much bigger and diseased world.
If you, as a third party, were to start from scratch and build a complete medical and recreation center at Eagle Grove -- there being none there already -- you would absolutely include what the Wellness Center already is in your designs. Recreation and Wellness together. If the new recreation center is built as stated, it and the Wellness Center will be within sight of each other.
So why would it close down?
Why close the Wellness Center with no replacement?
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And yet, that is the worry of many people here at Eagle Grove and surrounding communities.
You see, here in paradise we lack something that is essential for everyone's happiness -- except the Elites.
Trust. No one trusts the Elites to be anything except their own best advocates.
The idea of a new recreation center is a good one. Such a place will be a boon to our existence, but closing the Wellness Center is too high a price to pay and stupid. Really dumb.
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I sent a Letter to the Editor about this situation asking for clarification and more details. I sent it last Friday. Will it appear in the local newspaper with answers? We will see. I doubt it. That might disrupt someone's plans.
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Then there is the question of Increased Taxes. Is it just a rumor that the Sheriff is going to get a 33% pay raise? Will the County Officials get a 22% pay raise? Will this increase our taxes - AGAIN?
Will the STATE be blamed for all of it -- AGAIN?
Will any Unwashed Citizen of Wright County ever be given the chance to vote about anything?
Is Wright County to become the 'County Without Choices'?
never vote anyway
it is bad for your health
and no therapy can help you
except never voting again
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Confused? You have to live here.
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Markel Peters
https://voices-of-iowa.blogspot.com/
