Admission's free at Valley Southwoods High School in West Des Moines. Schedule for ISU Players at Sunday's YMCA Capital City Basketball League - West Des Moines, IA Patch
Sunday's Schedule of ISU Players at Cap City Basketball
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Seriously, I don't understand the way this league if funded, but Patch.com seems to be a big part of it. Here is the link: West Des Moines, IA Patch - News, Sports, Events, Businesses & Deals
I'm pretty sure I could fund that league with a middle schooler's piggy bank. Can't take that much capital.
Sure, but whose piggy bank? It isn't huge, but somebody is making it happen. My guess is that it takes more than $25k to run the league ($10k for refs, $10k for rent, $1k uniforms and towels, $5k insurance).
Do each of the sponsors pump in equal shares? Do players pay an entrance fee? Is there a sugar daddy who makes it happen?
Some great exposure there for CFTV on a different new Patch.com post. (I wonder what improvements CW has planned for CF the next couple of months???).
I also see local editor Beth Dalbey previously worked at the newspaper in Shenandoah. Way to go SWI, way to represent!
My own background is close to Johnny Carson's old home towns - great memories and very friendly people. If we hadn't moved, who knows, maybe I would have been a NWMSU Beercat. :spinny:
CycloneErik
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CycloneErik
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Never. I lived near Corning, where he was born, and Avoca, where he attended elementary school for awhile.
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ah didn't know he lived all over southwest Iowa. I just know of the house he lived in while growing up in red oak.
I think his father worked for the power company, which would have been busy then, so they moved around a lot. Johnny Carson never lived there, I don't think, but his grandfather lived in Logan, Iowa, and was mayor there for awhile. Johnny always claimed Norfolk, Nebraska, as his hometown, where he graduated from high school. I think he made some pretty good charitable donations to all of these places later on.
I remember after one of his famous divorces, mid-80s or so, he flew his new sweetheart on an impromptu, totally unannounced private visit to the house where he had lived in Avoca. (I'd have to look it up but I presume they later married.) Word got around town, and those who were there said it was like he had never left, reminiscing about old times, down to earth and humble.
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