Challenge -- Sarah

If a new industry were to come to town and require 1500 employees there would be positive effects and negative effects. The industry would attract people to town. We would have more money in town because of the industry. We would be low on money at first because it would take a lot of money to build the new business. When the business gets going it will bring more people to town, therefore we would need more houses and other businesses like restaurants, hotels, gas stations….etc.
The positive effects would be that the small businesses in town would get a lot more money. Our school size would increase. More houses would have to be built. More people would be able to find jobs because of the rapid growing of the town. We would have to build more restaurants, hotels, gas stations….etc.
The negative effects would be that the town would have more people and we could get bad people and gangs moving to our town. People might have to work longer hours. The town would have to increase water and power systems and that would cost money. To build houses would cost money. To build more businesses would cost money.
I think this would be positive and negative because if the town grew bigger we might get bad people moving here but more people would be employed.

-- If a Big Company Came to Town., Carly

I think that our town will grow because of the company. I wouldn’t want more people to come because then more people would come to school here. That means the town might have to make a bigger school, we might not have enough money to make one and bigger schools are confusing. We would need to make more hotels, gas stations and we would have to have more than two restaurant. The town would have to build more houses and apartments. We would have to make more stoplights and streets. That would make the town bigger so we will be able to build more buildings. The theatre would have to be made bigger, hockey rink and curling rink would have to be made way bigger to. If more people came here there would have to be more stores so that the people don’t have to go to the city and the taxes would be made higher.

Challenge--Kelsey

If a new industry was to build within town limits and requires 1500 employees there would be positives effects. The town would grow and more people would be able to get a job. The industry would attract more people to the town. The town’s business would make more money. At first the town wouldn’t attract more people because the new industry would just be starting but after a few months and everything got going people would come to town.

More people would move to town and people would have to build houses. We would need more contractors in town because they would be too busy with all the houses being built. The hotels would be busier because the people would need a place to live while their houses were being built.

Our schools would grow if more people came to town. The classes would be bigger and we would need to make the classes smaller. The school would be packed.
With all the people moving to town there would be gangs. People would get more violent. People wouldn’t be able to trust everyone. You wouldn’t know everyone in town.