Stay the course and vote for Marsh

Dear editor:

I wrote to you a few years ago regarding the importance of having a community indoor recreational center.

My needs nor the needs of the community have not changed as implied by a recent announcement from Leanna Whitney, challenging Molly Marsh's position as director of WERCD.

Personally, I am still post-polio and my personal need for an indoor swimming facility to exercise is still here and even more so than before.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had the same affliction and used Warm Springs, Ga., water therapy, which helped him immensely to regain partial use of muscle loss, at least enough to enable him to stand

A recent survey produced the fact that 60 percent of the voters were in favor of an indoor aquatic facility as the number one need of this community. The community needs a year-round facility, not only for therapeutic use but recreational needs.

Keep Mollie Marsh as director of Western Elmore County Recreational District and we will finally have Stage I of its indoor recreation facility completed debt free. How good is that? Should it happen, that the rec district folds, it will lose approximately $300,000 in grant money. Grant money that will go a long ways to achieve the goals of those of us who favor the district and have worked hard as volunteers wherever we could to help achieve its goal as well as others who want this for themselves and our children.

Leanna Whitney, I am afraid, does not share the vision. Also, I might add, if the mayor of Nampa was a not a visionarian and was fearful, the citizens of his community would not have been enjoying their beautiful community center for all these years.

Gov. Kempthorne, a very honorable leader who himself was appointed later by the President of United States to become the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, appointed Mollie Marsh to the WERCD board. Why would anyone want to vote for anyone else?

We need to stay on course with Mollie Marsh. I want to urge the citizens when you go to the voting booth to cast your vote in the general election, also cast a vote at the other booth, Western Elmore County Recreation District, and vote for the one whose past successes clearly indicate she has been working in our best interest -- Mollie Marsh.

I. Joyce Allgood