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The Mid-county Memo is your newspaper, and we want to hear from you. Discuss an important issue or address a concern you want to call the community’s attention to. Please include a name, address, and phone number. We prefer e-mailed letters to the editor sent to Dawn Widler, Department Editor at editor@midcountymemo.com. Please put “letter to the ed” in the subject line. You may also mail complete information to 4052 N.E. 22nd Ave., Portland, OR, 97212-1503.
A bad experience in the park
Dear Editor,
Last Sunday, August 4, my husband was in Knott Park using his metal detector, as he has many times before. A woman was in the park cleaning up litter, etc. and my husband said to her, “Looks like people left you a mess.”
She screamed “what?” at him, so he repeated what he said. She proceeded to tell him in a loud and belligerent manner that people always make a mess and don’t clean it up, let their dogs poop in the park and leave the mess there. She told him he shouldn’t probe in the ground as the sprinkler system was shallow. He then went to another area of the park to use his metal detector.
I don’t know if there is a specific organization that volunteers to do litter pick up, but I don’t think someone with that kind of attitude should do it. We have lived in this area over thirty years and enjoy having Knott Park close to us, but we won’t use the park if we have to be subjected to verbal abuse.
Don & Jan Grant
Parkrose
Citizens speak out
Do you want your vote to count in this City Council special election? How many times have you seen on the news, citizens “up in arms” about unwanted development impacting their community and going “head to head” with the City Council and always losing the battle? Many citizens have become disillusioned and unsure about how to fight for their rights successfully.
Why is it that time and time again the people that didn’t support your views got voted in? We need to take note of who disappointed us, issue by issue.
One way to make the system work for all of us is to be conscious of your choices when it’s time for voting in September’s special election.
There’s one candidate who has been “in the trenches” for citizens, supporting our concerns. Liz Callison is our choice and she is running to fill Charlie Hale’s vacant City Council position. She is open to other’s ideas and welcomes input. She feels strongly about stopping the escalation of our utility rates. She has a realistic plan to help save our school playing fields. We know from experience that she is truly listening to what we want and she cares about citizens being empowered. She has been there for us “fighting the good fight.” Liz Callison can be your voice on the city council. Make a difference, make a change.
Debby Friend
Rosemarie Opp
debbyfriend@aol.com
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