Zoldan is the direct cause of the failure - the demise of the IZ can be traced back directly to his own very poor business and management decision especially the firing of the one manager/ wife team who was single handedly responsible for growing youth hockey to over 300 participants in learn to play and some SIXTEEN in house teams AND three or four TRAVEL teams.
In addition he was supportive of the FIgure Skating programs- another large number of participants with first rate coaches, let alone the public skating.
After the unbelievable poor decision to cut sch a successful management team loose over a few paltry dollars - horse feed- the very next season saw a complete and utter collapse of the Ice Zone from which it has never recovered. families left in droves over the poor new management or lack thereof.
THose of us who were there know the truth. ANd where is the community philanthropy of Zoldan? Give it to the township to run properly - turf the one side for indoor soccer, softball, lacrosse, etc etc - all of which could ahve been paying dollars the last two years on the shuttered side. Stupid !
Mr. Zoldan has a chance to step up for is community as have the Larricia's, DeBartolo's, Cafaro's, Smith's James' and the other philanthropists of the community.
I'm not holding my breath but it's not the community's fault we don't care about the Phantoms but DO enjoy skating. The two have nothing to do with each other. What a stupid situation !
Zoldan is the direct cause of the failure - the demise of the IZ can be traced back directly to his own very poor business and management decision especially the firing of the one manager/ wife team who was single handedly responsible for growing youth hockey to over 300 participants in learn to play and some SIXTEEN in house teams AND three or four TRAVEL teams.
In addition he was supportive of the FIgure Skating programs- another large number of participants with first rate coaches, let alone the public skating.
After the unbelievable poor decision to cut sch a successful management team loose over a few paltry dollars - horse feed- the very next season saw a complete and utter collapse of the Ice Zone from which it has never recovered. families left in droves over the poor new management or lack thereof.
THose of us who were there know the truth. ANd where is the community philanthropy of Zoldan? Give it to the township to run properly - turf the one side for indoor soccer, softball, lacrosse, etc etc - all of which could ahve been paying dollars the last two years on the shuttered side. Stupid !
Mr. Zoldan has a chance to step up for is community as have the Larricia's, DeBartolo's, Cafaro's, Smith's James' and the other philanthropists of the community.
I'm not holding my breath but it's not the community's fault we don't care about the Phantoms but DO enjoy skating. The two have nothing to do with each other. What a stupid situation !
Apart from demonstrating your ignorance of the events of that night ( so from your vantage point the ref should have stopped the fight ? ) and the game of boxing in general, you have missed the point of the book and the man entirely. Congrats.
Idiot ? ..and you would back down from the pond scum and run with your tail between your legs I suppose. I guess Defend Youngstown is a notion foreign to you then Dave. Sad.
move and while their at it; increase the tuition to hire great teachers focusing on strong academic excellence.
So Many parents in this region are desperate for a strong academic school and are willing to pay for it. Maybe not many of the old Alumni but that was then and this is now, science, math and scholarship are the new football. Make it a school worth going to for something more than a football jacket.
The bigger picture: The decades of no opportunity and the regions history of putting little to no value on education has created drug culture almost all pervasive in the labor pool. Now as these new and higher paying jobs open up good workers are moving into them leaving a void in their wake as employers have little choice but to hire those they would not have let in the door two years or ten years ago.
With that comes the expected increase in employee theft and fraud, increased in workers comp claims ( generally bogus) higher absenteeism and decreased productivity.
ON the other hand, those just entering the jobs market have not had the time to become entrenched in the negative culture and so there is some real hope for the young guys entering into the apprenticeship programs , College Degreed new grads etc.
THe older work force, with their drug and alcohol habits etc will slowly be marginalized and some good will come out of all this in time.
Really unfortunate decision. If EVER there was a reason to support the best qualified for the position this race has to be it yet the Chairman persists in Party Over All. While I understand his position, and boy was it ever sugar coated given their history, it is more a reflection of the political morass and divisiveness that has spawned the Occupy movement than anything else. Party over Country = FAIL.
Plan to preserve Ice Zone fails
Zoldan is the direct cause of the failure - the demise of the IZ can be traced back directly to his own very poor business and management decision especially the firing of the one manager/ wife team who was single handedly responsible for growing youth hockey to over 300 participants in learn to play and some SIXTEEN in house teams AND three or four TRAVEL teams.
In addition he was supportive of the FIgure Skating programs- another large number of participants with first rate coaches, let alone the public skating.
After the unbelievable poor decision to cut sch a successful management team loose over a few paltry dollars - horse feed- the very next season saw a complete and utter collapse of the Ice Zone from which it has never recovered. families left in droves over the poor new management or lack thereof.
THose of us who were there know the truth. ANd where is the community philanthropy of Zoldan? Give it to the township to run properly - turf the one side for indoor soccer, softball, lacrosse, etc etc - all of which could ahve been paying dollars the last two years on the shuttered side. Stupid !
Mr. Zoldan has a chance to step up for is community as have the Larricia's, DeBartolo's, Cafaro's, Smith's James' and the other philanthropists of the community.
I'm not holding my breath but it's not the community's fault we don't care about the Phantoms but DO enjoy skating. The two have nothing to do with each other. What a stupid situation !
April 15, 2013 at 11:37 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Plan to preserve Ice Zone fails
Zoldan is the direct cause of the failure - the demise of the IZ can be traced back directly to his own very poor business and management decision especially the firing of the one manager/ wife team who was single handedly responsible for growing youth hockey to over 300 participants in learn to play and some SIXTEEN in house teams AND three or four TRAVEL teams.
In addition he was supportive of the FIgure Skating programs- another large number of participants with first rate coaches, let alone the public skating.
After the unbelievable poor decision to cut sch a successful management team loose over a few paltry dollars - horse feed- the very next season saw a complete and utter collapse of the Ice Zone from which it has never recovered. families left in droves over the poor new management or lack thereof.
THose of us who were there know the truth. ANd where is the community philanthropy of Zoldan? Give it to the township to run properly - turf the one side for indoor soccer, softball, lacrosse, etc etc - all of which could ahve been paying dollars the last two years on the shuttered side. Stupid !
Mr. Zoldan has a chance to step up for is community as have the Larricia's, DeBartolo's, Cafaro's, Smith's James' and the other philanthropists of the community.
I'm not holding my breath but it's not the community's fault we don't care about the Phantoms but DO enjoy skating. The two have nothing to do with each other. What a stupid situation !
April 15, 2013 at 11:37 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Hundreds gather for signing of Mancini bio, ‘The Good Son’
well RK,
Apart from demonstrating your ignorance of the events of that night ( so from your vantage point the ref should have stopped the fight ? ) and the game of boxing in general, you have missed the point of the book and the man entirely.
Congrats.
September 30, 2012 at 11:27 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Boardman man, 32, sentenced for shovel assaults
Idiot ? ..and you would back down from the pond scum and run with your tail between your legs I suppose. I guess Defend Youngstown is a notion foreign to you then Dave. Sad.
August 16, 2012 at 9:59 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Restore or relocate? Mooney looks at options
move and while their at it; increase the tuition to hire great teachers focusing on strong academic excellence.
So Many parents in this region are desperate for a strong academic school and are willing to pay for it. Maybe not many of the old Alumni but that was then and this is now, science, math and scholarship are the new football.
Make it a school worth going to for something more than a football jacket.
August 12, 2012 at 10:06 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Brouhaha over Cornersburg coffee-shop barista plan unplugs effort to reach lease agreement
LoL !!!
she spent her own money renovating the space with no signed lease ? There's a word for that....
August 9, 2012 at 7:23 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Teen drowns in club pool
"where was his mother ?"
LOL..... priceless
July 10, 2012 at 12:45 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Lack of ramp hampers Boardman woman's life
you're buying her cancer story of "confined" to her WC ? Looks more like "bad" knees to me.
July 8, 2012 at 12:47 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Lack of clean drug tests to hold back Valley hiring
The bigger picture: The decades of no opportunity and the regions history of putting little to no value on education has created drug culture almost all pervasive in the labor pool. Now as these new and higher paying jobs open up good workers are moving into them leaving a void in their wake as employers have little choice but to hire those they would not have let in the door two years or ten years ago.
With that comes the expected increase in employee theft and fraud, increased in workers comp claims ( generally bogus) higher absenteeism and decreased productivity.
ON the other hand, those just entering the jobs market have not had the time to become entrenched in the negative culture and so there is some real hope for the young guys entering into the apprenticeship programs , College Degreed new grads etc.
THe older work force, with their drug and alcohol habits etc will slowly be marginalized and some good will come out of all this in time.
June 10, 2012 at 11:59 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Betras will support archrival Hanni
Really unfortunate decision. If EVER there was a reason to support the best qualified for the position this race has to be it yet the Chairman persists in Party Over All. While I understand his position, and boy was it ever sugar coated given their history, it is more a reflection of the political morass and divisiveness that has spawned the Occupy movement than anything else. Party over Country = FAIL.
December 2, 2011 at 2:05 p.m. permalink suggest removal