Comments about ‘Community garden vs. lacrosse field’

I hope the garden stays. Gardening is recreation for some people and it is outdoors. What's wrong with the football or soccer fields the school probably already has that the lacrosse team can't use them? Lacrosse is a great sport and no reason not to have a team, but there should be some way to make use of what the school already has.

I say keep the garden. The garden helps the community a whole lot more then turning it into a place for lacrosse. Garden should stay.

Can't they find more land for a garden?

If this is community property then the food that is grown is free for the taking from anyone. I garden, but I also pay taxes on that property. I dont pay those taxes for someone to grow a private garden.

I think there are 2 sides to this that can be resolved. Can't there be a little garden behind the Holladay /city Hall and a Lacrosse field too. I am familiar with the plot of land behind Holladay City Hall (the old Holladay Elementary). With the tearing down of the old firestation, there should be enough room for a small garden and 2 lacrosse fields. Shouldn't there?

This isn't the Soviet Union. Let these immigrants learn the American way and farm THEIR OWN ground. Or let them go home and farm on their collectives.

Keep the gardens and let the lacrosse payers practice somewhere else. I have nothing against lacrosse; many of my neighbors are avid players, but a community garden sounds a lot more beneficial to the community as a whole.

Lacrosse is a sport for the upper crust. Gardening is something that better suits the working man. Keep the garden, say hell no to lacrosse. There are enough sports these kids can already participate in.

Please place a grass field over this once productive garden plot. Parents also think that sports will teach their children responsibility. It has done great things in the NBA/NFL/MLB. AI and others learned a ton from sports. Gardening and farming is soooo yesterday. It has no place in our community. Besides, sharing a field with soccer or football team would be out of the question. People that grow food etc. add nothing, but the great sport of Lacrosse, why, it is the best. What better way to honor our Native American heritage-running out a bunch of unimportant folks and planting grass.

Put me down for playing fields for the public. If you want vegies - go to Albertson's or grow it on your own property.

Some things are more important than others. The economy may be bottoming, but it may not be. In WWII I recall everyone tried to grow vegetables. If this recession goes into a depression, better get your garden going. It is more important than LaCrosse. California is getting a lot less water for crops in the San Joachim Valley. 80,000 farm workers laid off. Vegetables will go higher.

The greater good will come from the garden. Duh. It's time for locrosse boys to learn a lesson in selflessness and become real men.

Garden stays - club team finds another place to practice. End of debate.

I love and live for youth sports; however, boosters need to spend your time and efforts getting the UHSAA to sanction your sport, and make certain that your school district provides whatever is deemed necessary.

P.S. If Olympus Jr. isn't a "walk to" destination, so why don't you drive down to the football field at Granite High School. Maybe the District will let you convert it so a LaCrosse Based Stadium.

Just because the soil is "poor" doesn't mean that it is a bad place to garden. Soil can be amended and become good. It happens all the time in gardens all over the world. I agree that gardening fits the conditions of the donated land. I would rather see a garden there than a blank grassy field. The garden promotes community while the grassy field is just a grassy field.

I hope the garden stays. I hope the lacrosse team finds a home. It's too bad we are pitted against each other for space. The issue is that in East Millcreek, Canyon Rim, Mt. Olympus, and Holladay there is very limited undeveloped space. The East Bench has a history of cooperation. Please get involved with your community council. S.L. County collected $64 million in ZAP funding last year. Other communities in S.L. County have built modern rec centers and enormous playing fields with this funding. On the East Bench we have used ZAP and other SL County money for the Holladay Lion's Club (no full size field), the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, and 3 very expensive bridges over 1-215. The most recent SL County vision is to move 2 fire stations, reduce the size of Evergeen Park, build another senior center, and increase the size of the County Library there. Granite School District already supports Boys and Girls Track and Field, Soccer, Baseball, Softball, and P.E. classes on the school fields. In addition to Lacrosse, community Rugby, Softball, Baseball, and Track and Field clubs need space in the Spring. Get involved for change.

yeah farming is soo yesterday. Nobody gets anything out of farming. However, I do like food and that comes from farming. HMMM...... Dilemma?! I think not.

The owner can do what it likes with their land.

"A few weeks ago, the entire lacrosse team of Olympus High School showed up in uniform to encourage the new fields."

The ENTIRE lacrosse team? Wow. So, what, five or six kids who got cut from football?

We are a country obsessed by sports. We live, eat, sleep, drink sports. FINALLY... someone has the ability to see beyond the sports. Your kids could learn responsibility by taking care of a garden or cows or perhaps... GET A JOB! These kids will play sports for how long? Five years? Six? But teaching them to grow their own food would serve them much longer. Get them a plot at the community garden and teach them something other than they have to be the best at some stupid game. It is time to grow up! Community gardens are all over this country.. time for Utah to catch up!

With the way the ecconomy is, growing food isn't just recreational; it's survival. It is also a great way to bring the community together. It isn't "so yesterday." A teenager with too much time on his hands and a closet full of Nintendo games must have written that. His or her parents would know better. If these people had land, they would grow their own food on it and not have to resort to a community source. Some local grocery stores aren't an option for many of us who have good jobs because they are so overpriced. So "public lands for public uses", this may be an option for your parents but my guess is you haven't had the oportunity to provide food for yourself out of your own pocket let alone for a family. Your turn will come in a few years. I think a community garden is of more benefit to the community than a LaCrosse field. These LaCrosse players would learn more responsibility and life skills gardening with their neighbors than playing a game.