Editor: There are a couple of topics that took my eye again in recent editions of The Chatham Voice.
On, the editorial in the April 18 edition, “Our two cents,” discussed the tiny cabins that are to be built to house the homeless, and where they will be built.
A letter from Al Laforet was very much against the location, stating it was next to Henry Weaver Park. It was said that sheltering locations would not be built near where children played.
Also, the location is in the east side…again.
But if the cabins stop people laying about all over Chatham and are well supervised, let’s go for it where it seems suitable.
The Third Street Bridge is becoming an encampment again. In recent weeks, I’ve seen three tents under there. Plus, they are always hanging around the 7-Eleven at the corner of Grand Avenue and St. Clair Street.
So, if cabins are to be the answer, wherever, let’s go for it so we can have our streets back again and feel safe.
Another story that gets more amazing every year is the money municipal officials get paid, while others struggle. Then to read Thomas Kelly, whom they say got pushed out for doing something maybe he shouldn’t have been doing, getting paid for I believe two years, should never have been.
We need money to fix our rotten roads right now – and a good many more things.
Can and will things ever change? It sure doesn’t look like it.
Ruth Draper
Chatham
