THE BOTTOM LINE
Published on Wednesday, May 15, 1996
© 1996 The Arizona Republic


''Keep school rooms open after hours so the old people can play checkers and the young people can play pingpong. This is important, a lot of our values need to be handed down from the old to the young, and this is one way to make that connection.''-- Richard Fox, president of the Phoenix Block Watch Advisory Board, talking about proposals to use school buildings after hours as community centers

Type of story: BRIEF