Bettering Our Town

      Most days I am trolling around town with my friends I just think about how this place could get any more boring. Other towns such as Lake Stevens or Marysville have fun places to go, such as a nice skate park, a bowling alley, a trampoline park or cool hangouts like Taco Bell.  Our small city requires us to have an imagination away from classic McDonald's. Although it isn't even a good quality food, buns be all soggy, meat patties looking more processed than easy cheese in a spray can. I know other youth individuals have strong feelings towards the way our city is structured.
      More recently the town has been converting into a more modern looking area. The lake had a whole reconstruction with parking spaces and rocks and trees. Which is nice and all, but the fact that fields of grass and trees gets torn down for newer and more expensive homes. More than half this town is below poverty line. Or scraping money for bills just to get by. It may seem as if they're trying to make this place a better community, which is quite possible, but they're doing it in ways it doesn't bring everyone closer.
     Putting in more restaurants, clothing stores, material shops and other things that could be more involving. I've seen the new City Hall next to the Sheriff's station, and although it is beneficial to some, it's quite a big space taken up. When they've burnt and torn down a house next to The Boys and Girls Club, supposedly putting in an undercover basketball court. That project was started in my freshman year of high school, still not completed in my senior year of high school. This isn't just a simple complaint, it can be put into retrospect of an ideal lifestyle. My window has the whole view of my neighbors cracked out trailer park with a pin full of yappy chihuahuas.  The only other thing I see is the Boys and Girls Club children running around inside and around the building, that's one of the most beautiful sights, is togetherness.
-Alysa Manuel