A topic of conversation recently came up surrounding whether the proposed $1.2 million to turf the football field at Riverside Park was worth the effort.
I won’t name the parties, because I detest the idea my column would be fodder for silencing anyone, but the topic was why turf a field for a high school football program? Why not, instead, use those funds to enhance academic efforts, which one could argue would make an immediate impact on the community?
To boil it down, the speaker argued those funds would yield greater results if spent on academic programs, but a…
