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Beach Party 2005

I had to go out of town for a few days to NYC and the Jersey Shore, so I missed out the Galveston Beach Party aka Kappa Weekend. Apparently it went on withon without many problems, and most folks thought that the young people were polite and well manored. Galveston as usual had shown there yearly inhospitality by blocking of most roads. closed off parking on the seawall. In the name of traffic control they created a weekend long traffic jam.
At long last The Galveston Daily News has called an end for punnishing the residents and visitors by blocking off all the roads.

Beach Party Weekend is smaller than it once was. It’s no longer the big, disorderly event it once was. It’s declined slowly over about the last five years and likely will continue to decline.

However, it still is bad for most tourist-related and retail businesses, mainly because people in Galveston hunker down in their homes. We can improve on that.

It’s time to begin re-establishing normalcy on that weekend.

Of course, the police should continue working to manage traffic, to impose order and enforce the law. But do we really need all the traffic barricades? Can’t a few more businesses remain open?

And it seems to me that Galvestonians — many of them — should live their lives more normally, enjoy themselves, and give our guests a smile and a hello.

I think we owe that to ourselves. Our beautiful hometown is too great a prize to surrender. We should enjoy it, and we should share it, and we can’t do that locked up in our homes.

The Baricades need to, businesses need to open, and we need to go about our daily weekend activitys. We complained last year, maybe next year the town fathers will take the advice given by our news paper.

posted by Liberty @ 7:58 PM