Jeromicide Park Research Paper
I stopped by the city park in Jerome, Idaho on Saturday, April 2nd. The reason I picked this park was because it was a very popular place I took my kids growing up. Where I am the Children’s Ministry Director at our church, I thought this was the perfect point to find kids interacting and playing. This park has been popular over the years and I thought it would be a good place to start. When I arrived at the park, other than a family that was throwing a birthday party, adults and kids were scarce. The park had not been managed, granted, this was the first really nice warm Saturday we had had in awhile, but for it being so nice, there were very few people in the park. The reason I mentioned that the park had not been managed is because all winter
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My family and I were heading to the night service in Twin Falls, and I wanted to see the difference in the parks and people in Twin. Twin Falls is located 15 miles from Jerome, and where Jerome is known for having a lower income, Twin Falls is on the opposite spectrum. There are lower income areas, but the upkeep in Twin fair out ways that of Jerome. When going into Twin Falls, you leave Jerome county when you cross the bridge, so this park is literally directly across the bridge. The county splits in the middle of the bridge, so depending on which side of the bridge someone jump off of and lands, will depend on which county picks up the body. It happens. This is also one of the only bridges in the U.S. that allows base …show more content…
There were two baseball teams there, doing a camp with younger kids. Other than that the park was empty. Four baseball fields, two soccer fields, a playground, picnic tables, and facilities…other than the teams…not a soul in sight! I thought, maybe because it was a bit windy that people weren’t at this park, so I drove around all over town to every park I could find, and other than the city park that had another birthday party going on, not one other park had people in it. Weird! The library was empty and the rec center had two cars in the parking lot. The only place that it looked like people in Jerome visited, was Walmart. It hit a little too close to home when I said the highlight of our town was Walmart, because it was the
My family and I were heading to the night service in Twin Falls, and I wanted to see the difference in the parks and people in Twin. Twin Falls is located 15 miles from Jerome, and where Jerome is known for having a lower income, Twin Falls is on the opposite spectrum. There are lower income areas, but the upkeep in Twin fair out ways that of Jerome. When going into Twin Falls, you leave Jerome county when you cross the bridge, so this park is literally directly across the bridge. The county splits in the middle of the bridge, so depending on which side of the bridge someone jump off of and lands, will depend on which county picks up the body. It happens. This is also one of the only bridges in the U.S. that allows base …show more content…
There were two baseball teams there, doing a camp with younger kids. Other than that the park was empty. Four baseball fields, two soccer fields, a playground, picnic tables, and facilities…other than the teams…not a soul in sight! I thought, maybe because it was a bit windy that people weren’t at this park, so I drove around all over town to every park I could find, and other than the city park that had another birthday party going on, not one other park had people in it. Weird! The library was empty and the rec center had two cars in the parking lot. The only place that it looked like people in Jerome visited, was Walmart. It hit a little too close to home when I said the highlight of our town was Walmart, because it was the