In 25 Years...

by: Josie Wynen

In 25 years, I will be 38, turning 39, at present day. What I'd like to see in Princeton in 25 years is: friendly faces, a movie theatre, schools, church, places where you can buy things, the farm that is in the middle of Princeton still there... but before I can continue let's see what Princeton already has.

Princeton has many friendly faces, it has a small movie theatre, a fire department, a museum, and a library. It also has 2 schools, 3 churches, an antique store, 3 places where you can eat, a variety store, a post office, a rural area, a business section, senior's apartment home, a hardware store, a tight-knit community.

I really don't think that Princeton needs anything more than what it already has right now. Sure, it'd be great to have a shopping mall, a high-schoo, and lots of things that attract tourists and people who want to move there, but if Princeton grew any more, it would lose its closeness. What I mean by that is that everyone basically knows who everyone else is and they are either friends or good aquaintences, and they know what is going on in the community

So, what I'd like to see in Princeton in 25 years is still the same thing that I see today in Princeton. I don't want it to change, because it is perfect the way it is.

But, if we had to change something, I probably would like to see Princeton on the map. Maybe someone will put it on hte map for us, like the way a former Drumbo resident designed the Olympic stamps for the 2002 Winter games in Salt Lake. I'd also like to see a high school, so that if my kids go to a Princeton school, they can go to a high school in the same place and still be with their elementary school, we will be split up from our best friends if they have to go to a different high school.

I'd also like to see St. Francis and Princeton Central schools still there and still having people there to learn and not have htem closed down, because we are just a small country school

I think it would be cool if I move to a different place and come back to Princeton for a visit, that I could show my family that I used to live here, this is where I went to school, etc. etc. I think it would also be cool if my kids went to St. Francis, the same as I am doing now and have this exact same assignment. I think it would look pretty bad on the teacher's part to hand out the exact same assignment to the peoples' kids that went there before and have them remember of have the essay show them. That would be weird.

So, I think that Princeton should stay the same, and if it has to change, then so be it.