Dear Councilwoman Hiller,
I'm writing from the peanut gallery with what I can only call a match made in civic heaven.
At last night's City Council meeting, in case it slipped your mind among all the other business, a lovely woman named Linda Day, who has lived at 2400 SW Central Park Avenue for 70 years, stood up during public comment and asked for one simple thing: a four-way stop at her corner, two blocks from the Quinton Heights hill. There are stop signs on the streets on either side of her, but nothing at her corner, and there have been wrecks there. The new speed bump down the street isn't slowing anyone down. In her words, "If it's the last thing I do, I want to save lives."
She tried to get the newspaper to come out, and they didn't. So she came herself.
Karen, I can't think of anyone better suited to take up Linda's cause. You never miss a meeting, a ribbon cutting, or a retirement party, and your devotion to every corner of city life is truly unmatched. Surely one more corner, this one with real wrecks and a real neighbor who has watched that traffic for seven decades, deserves the same attention. I picture the two of you side by side at the traffic engineering office, getting it done.
Linda has been patient for 70 years. With you on the case, I'm confident she won't have to wait for a ribbon cutting to see results.
With warmest regards from the peanut gallery,
I'm writing from the peanut gallery with what I can only call a match made in civic heaven.
At last night's City Council meeting, in case it slipped your mind among all the other business, a lovely woman named Linda Day, who has lived at 2400 SW Central Park Avenue for 70 years, stood up during public comment and asked for one simple thing: a four-way stop at her corner, two blocks from the Quinton Heights hill. There are stop signs on the streets on either side of her, but nothing at her corner, and there have been wrecks there. The new speed bump down the street isn't slowing anyone down. In her words, "If it's the last thing I do, I want to save lives."
She tried to get the newspaper to come out, and they didn't. So she came herself.
Karen, I can't think of anyone better suited to take up Linda's cause. You never miss a meeting, a ribbon cutting, or a retirement party, and your devotion to every corner of city life is truly unmatched. Surely one more corner, this one with real wrecks and a real neighbor who has watched that traffic for seven decades, deserves the same attention. I picture the two of you side by side at the traffic engineering office, getting it done.
Linda has been patient for 70 years. With you on the case, I'm confident she won't have to wait for a ribbon cutting to see results.
With warmest regards from the peanut gallery,
Henry McClure
Time kills deals
785-383-9994
www.henrymcclure.live
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