Luck High School

Luck Wisconsin

Teacher: Barbara Petersen

Nick Hetfeld

 

Making the Community A Better Place

By Nick Hetfeld

 

 

I feel that for a person to help improve the life in our community, we have to do many things. We would have to be involved in our community by making our way of life the way we want it to be by paying our taxes and paying those taxes on time, voting, support our local school, advertising our community to other people, and do what we feel is the right thing to do. 

 

By making our life the way we want it to be, means that we will be happy. When we are happy we put more into our work and more gets done. If we are happy then the things that we do for the community will put one hundred percent on our project for the community, which will make our community a better place. When we do things while we are angry and sad, things just don't get done right. Things don't look as good as they would have been if we are happy. 

 

We must pay our taxes for our community, state, and our federal government. We don't pay either one of our taxes; we will get ourselves into a lot of trouble. We may have to pay a big fine or even spend some time in our local jail. By paying our taxes the government will give us a lot of things in return. We will get policemen, firefighters, roads to drive on, protection other countries, and many other things that could go on this list. 

 

If we pay our taxes we will be helping the policeman fight crime so the streets are safer for not only ourselves, but everyone else in the community. We will be helping our road conditions so that they are safer to drive and we won't have a lot of car accidents.   

 

I feel that it is a very good idea to vote for not only our federal government and state positions, but we should also vote for all of our county and community positions. We may think that it won't affect us but it may. We may have a break in and have to work with the Sheriff. If we don't get along with that Sheriff at all we might have problems trying to help him out while he tries to help us out. Now I realize that even if we don't vote we may not get the guy that we wanted, but at least we tried to get him into office. If we didn't vote well then we are just letting everybody else vote for us.

 

Supporting our local school is a great way to help our community out. We should support school activities, like going to athletic events or the school play. All that money that we give helps them out in some way. Besides, there is not a better way to help our community out than to help out the future of our community. If the students of our community get a good education, the less violence we would have, less drugs because the students would have learned in school that drugs are bad for them. They would know that drugs would not only hurt them but all the people around them. Their friends, family, and other close relatives are some of the other people that get hurt by drugs. 

 

Advertising our community to other people. Make our community sound good to other people and maybe we can get more people into our community.  Tell people it is a nice, clean, safe, and happy place to live. I think that if we do that the word will get around about our community and maybe more people will move to our community. The more people in a neighborhood the more money. The more money the community gets the better the community will be because it will have more money to spend on the roads, police force, firefighters, and other community organizations.

           

Maybe one of the most important ways that we can do to help our community is to do what we believe is right. We have that freedom in our constitution so why not use that right. We can choose what organization at school we want to give money to and maybe others that we don't want to give any money to.           

 

I feel that all of these ways are excellent ways we can help our community and there are probably many other ways that we can do for our community. We don't have to do them all and we don't have to do any. It is our choice and I feel that we will do whatever we believe is the right way to make our community a better place.