While my efforts to persuade the Board
of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our
home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pare
home games a dusty field the high school had essentially
abandoned), I returned to a discussion
of the «power
of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book,
Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pare
Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role
of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one
of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety
of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use
of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks,
pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes
of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
Just a few minute's walk from downtown Carrboro, North Carolina, there's a quiet, wooded 10 acre plot
of land that has been used by green activists for the past year and is
home to gardening projects, an outdoor movie theatre located inside an
abandoned historic community
pool and an innovative bike maintenance and repair project known as the ReCYCLEry (more on the ReCYCLEry to follow in a separate post).