Voters made a poor choice

Dear editor,

Oh thank you, voters of Mountain Home, for ending this madness foisted upon our fair city. The overthrow of the two recreation district directors will now surely end this scheme of building a recreational facility (paid for) on valuable land (paid for) across from the junior high and football field.

And any heartburn about adding a pool to the design-ready building in the future can now be forgotten.

Also, no more wasteful spending by WECRD directors to unworthy entities such as the Brown Belt, Lets Play Youth, Missoula Children's Theater, high school track, indoor batting facility and the free (oh the horror) use of the WECRD building to Quilters Ladies, Special Olympics, Sage Brush Shufflers, coaches meetings for soccer and youth baseball, garden club, T.O.P.S., Home Schoolers Game Day, Act Out Theater (junior high), Mountain Home Arts Council and Gamesters (senior ladies).

Let's hurry and dissolve the WECRD, pay any upcoming bills and obligations before fees and penalties are incurred, throw out those architect drawings, say "bye" to the "Y," fire the able attorney, tell HUD we don't want any more cash from the "dang guvment" and thanks but no thanks to the local businessmen and the hard-working Capital Campaign Committee.

The intention of many hard-working people was to provide something that was good and needed in our town, a facility that was paid for, affordable for everyone and a building that could be added on to easily in the future if support was there.

If the YMCA as managers of the recreational facility is the "fly in the ointment," so be it. Arrange for other qualified operators, planners or managers.

But to throw away the whole project when so much has been done and so much good can come of it is so sad.

Speak up, citizens, seniors and parents. It's madness to throw away a project so beneficial to our city.

-- Richard Foster,

Mountain Home