A
Greeley resident sought permission from the city council on the Oct. 16
meeting, to use signs advertising a fundraiser to support her son’s varsity
baseball team.
The
signs are only permitted on the grounds of the sale, according to the city. But
Sherrie Peif thinks that that the city would allow her permission to use the
signs on commercial intersections, even though the council did not give her an
exact answer at the meeting.
“I
think that it’s an interpretation of one person and I don’t think the city
council will take away fundraising from a non-profit school fundraiser,” she
said. “Funding education today is a hot topic, and I can’t imagine a city
council anywhere that would limit a parent’s ability to help fund the ‘extras’
of school such and extra-curricular stuff.”
And
these extras, Peif explains, are expenses used for tournaments and traveling
for not only the University High School Bulldogs baseball team, but for the
school’s cheer leading team as well.
The
parents’ of these teams, like Peif, have organized for a mattress sale in the
school’s gymnasium through a company in Estes Park called Front Range Unique
Fundraising, LLC ,to help pay for the teams’ expenses on Nov. 10.
Kane
Ware, a Greeley resident, also supports Peif’s call to action for the advertising
of the fundraiser.
“It
promotes the school and the usage of the signs seems harmless,” said Ware,
a soldier in U.S. Army Reserves.
