we like good stories about people doing good things, so the meta-roj blog introduces you to dazja gianessi and maya carey. dazja and maya are a couple of 11-year olds from weirton, west virginia, and they want some ice cream.<\/p>\n
and this is only a big deal because all the ice cream shops in town have been replaced by slots parlors (and, i guess, 11-year-olds don’t have cars to get to the next town…).<\/p>\n
in any case, the story is that these two young women have decided to start a petition to get their ice cream back, and they’ve landed nearly 600 signatures so far, which is something like 3% of the population.<\/p>\n
if you’re in the neighborhood, swing by the millsop community center on june 26th around noon for the pro-ice-cream rally.<\/p>\n
\nGirls lobby for ice cream shops in W. Va.<\/a> [ap via seattle post-intelligencer, june 24, 2004]<\/div>\nWeirton, with a population of 20,000, has 81 licensed video poker bars.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
Maya said grown-ups seem to have forgotten that children need places to hang out, too.<\/p>\n
“I think they’re just being selfish, worrying about themselves,” she said. “They don’t think children will do anything about it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Slots are hot in Weirton<\/a> [pittsburgh post-gazette, june 24, 2004]
\nIce Cream vs. Slot Machines<\/a> [wpvi, june 23, 2004]
\nWhere’s The Ice Cream?<\/a> [wtov]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"we like good stories about people doing good things, so the meta-roj blog introduces you to dazja gianessi and maya carey. dazja and maya are a couple of 11-year olds from weirton, west virginia, and they want some ice cream. and this is only a big deal because all the ice cream shops in town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}