Re: threats to PCEI stream project

["Sam Scripter" <scripter@uidaho.edu>]

Please see, below ....

-----Original Message-----
From: bill london <bill_london@hotmail.com>
To: vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 9:10 AM
Subject: threats to PCEI stream project


>
>The front-page story in the Lewiston Morning Tribune today (Tuesday,
>7/21) is an incredible story of a developer's greed and duplicity
>threatening a wonderful community resource.



(... Big snip, by Sam ...)

>That project was supported by the community and by the school district
>as an on-going outdoor classroom setting for the district's children and
>as a wonderful creekside trail and as a reminder of what was the
>beautiful, pre-channelled meanderings of Paradise Creek.  To have the
>integrity of that project--as well as the thousands of volunteer hours
>donated to making this restoration project work--put at-risk to put a
>few extra bucks in somebody's pockets in Pullman is incredibly
>disgusting.
>
>BL


Very well expressed, Bill.

I read the Trib' story earlier this morning.  Your last three lines really express my
"gut-pit" reaction and feelings.  This "development" (pun intended) really P----S me of!!!

It is so hard to get cooperation on projects, to get the various "players" together, then
to have this happen seems almost criminal.

What can we "poor citizens" do, now?  Picket the development, chain ourselves together in
front of the bull dozers?  Probably not.  If one of you win the Power Ball jackpot,
tomorrow night, will you buy his lots and give them back to the project?

Hey, V2020 readers; am I missing something?  Is there another spin on this story, to the
contrary of that reported, which I should know?

Sam Scripter
MoscowSam@moscow.com