Mountain Home does need a community recreation center

Dear editor,

You are concerned about our children not having a place to go without our recreation building (Mountain Home News Jan. 13 editorial). The lack of the construction also affects us older people, too.

We would like a place to walk in any weather where it would be safe and help near if we fell or had a health problem, and eventually a swimming pool to exercise in.

Now my tax dollars will be paying a fine for a contract that has been suspended. It is hard to believe that we have such negative people in this community that cannot help and figure out how to make it grow.

The new board might not have liked the way the old board were doing things with the WERCD, and they chose to do something about it and get elected to replace them, which is the democratic way of doing things. But can't they continue to build?

Why the "tear up, tear down" attitude? Don't they want this community to grow?

Our tax dollars will not be returned to us if they dissolve the WERCD. It will not go to the schools. The money is for recreation in Western Elmore County!

The next meeting of the WERCD is Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the district office at 245 East 6th South Street. I plan to be there and let the board know I would like my tax dollars go toward the building of the recreation center not the tearing down of it.

Won't those of you who share my opinion of a positive and continuation of the WERCD join me?

-- Vivian Meyer,

Mountain Home