For the past couple of years, West Chester Borough Council has been rightfully expressing concerns about the proliferation of liquor licenses and its effects on many aspects of the quality of life in town. So, one has to wonder what the folks in the borough's Recreation Department were thinking - or for that matter if they were even thinking at all - when they came up with this particular event...
As part of the 25th Annual Turk's Head Music Festival at Everhart Park next month, the Recreation Department is offering a one-price admission wristband to 6 borough bars the Friday night before the festival. While the proceeds from this event certainly benefit a worthy cause - the "Send a Kid to Camp Fund" - I can't help but wonder what kind of message is being given when you have one wing of the borough government - namely the Recreation Department - that is effectively running what amounts to a pub crawl while other wings of the borough government - namely Borough Council and the Police Department - expressing concerns over the nuisances that have popped up at many of these bars over the past few years.
Am I missing something here? Why is the Recreation Department even going ahead with this plan? Allowing unlimited access to multiple bars for a single price is, to my mind, an open invitation for people to act like drunken idiots. I'd be willing to set the over/under on public drunkeness arrests at 15 (of course, we all know that wagering and other types of gambling are illegal in Pennsylvania - unless the state sponsors it), and that might be a little generous, when you consider that 15 North - the mother of all headache bars, Baxter's, and Kildare's are all involved in this promotion.
And to think that your municipal tax dollars are helping to fund this ridiculous idea.
Let's just hope that this is just a one time thing in honor of the 25th anniversary of Turk's Head and that nobody down at Borough Hall decides to make this an annual event...
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