Thursday, August 5, 2010

Warriors Gateway to Rockford

In a breaking story (locally) on www.mchenrycountyblog.com/ Cal Skinner has scooped local media on Alan Belcher's plans for Warriors Gateway, a polytrauma center to serve veterans with multiple serious injuries after they are released from hospitals.

I don't recall reading anything in local media; maybe I missed it. The Rockford Register carried its story on July 9. Hello??? That's a month ago...

Should there be some jam on faces in Woodstock? Belcher's plan was pitched to the Woodstock City Council on December 15, 2009 (search right here on The Woodstock Advocate for "Belcher" to read the earlier article), when the folks promoting the K-9 baseball stadium by the gravel pit across from Centegra Hospital-Woodstock were hoping for extra innings for their project.

Did the City of Woodstock attempt to work with Belcher, or did he try to work with them?

Read the article at www.rrstar.com/businessrockford/x41627013/West-side-campus-concept-3-care-facilities-1-site Now there's a story with some life to it; you can almost feel the excitement and vibrancy over Belcher's idea.

How did Belcher's idea escape the infield? Was there a hole in someone's mitt? Belcher was up to bat in Woodstock in December and looking for a hit - maybe a home-run. Looks like he knocked it over the fence and right out of Woodstock.

Rockford - 1
Woodstock - 0
Errors?

2 comments:

John Lovaas said...

Errors? Well, yes. Read the July 30 Rock River Star article; it's a little more up to date than the flowery July 9 infomercial you posted-

http://www.rrstar.com/news/yourtown/x1137365533/Future-west-side-neighbors-support-Warriors-Gateway

Who is going to make money off of this? The developers, and no one else. Is it good business sense to a giant new nursing home in Rockford when the city has 500 empty beds, and can't adequately staff what they have?

Gus said...

The Northwest Herald did, indeed, carry a story about the Warrior's Gateway. On July 18 it carried a column by Don Peasley.

I tend to read the "stories", rather than the columns, in the NWH.