Editorial from this week's Lake Worth Herald, as it appeared...

From: The Lake Worth Herald
Mark Easton, President & Publisher
March 13, 2014

Editorial {excerpt}

"An Opportunity to Fight Progress"

     Maybe John Prince Park has too many hurdles to jump to be considered a viable location for a baseball stadium, but Lake Worth staff, the Neighborhood Association Presidents Council, the Lake Worth City Commission and others who support the stadium in John Prince Park, or somewhere nearby are on the on [sic] the right track.
     The economic benefits are far reaching, having a positive effect on every city, town or community within miles.
     Several people from Lake Worth appeared before the County Commission to ask the commission to consider John Prince Park with the exception of the NAPC who spoke of "Central Palm Beach County", weakening the plea from the rest.
     It is too bad this deviation from location added a slight ripple to some very positive presentations. Mary Lindsey, representing the NAPC had to choose words carefully and couldn't say John Prince Park because one NAPC member president [Robert Waples, ROLOH Neighborhood Association President] is for a stadium in the area, just not John Prince Park.
     There is no argument about the economic impact, the opportunities for our youth, or anything else except this one little enclave may see stadium lights. There might be more traffic within a mile of their home, they might hear people enjoying themselves.
     Well, the stadium lights won't burn any brighter than the lights on the softball fields located in the same place. There won't be any more noise than the trains and traffic on I-95 bring to their neighborhood. Nope, it's just an opportunity for a few people to fight progress in Lake Worth. When a local businessman stood before the Lake Worth Commission and supported the resolution to explore the possibilities, they said from the chambers "of course you do, you will make a profit". Well, I bet if none of the restaurants made profits in Lake Worth, this same little group that fights to keep it the "quaint little town" will be complaining about all the empty buildings on Lake and Lucerne [Avenues]. They are always against anything this commission suggests, automatically. And now they have sucked another [Robert Waples] into their fold, what a shame.