Regarding the Sept. 8 letter written by Ms. Julia Clinch (“Road Crew: Insensitive remark was out of line”): It was I who noticed your predicament on the southwest corner of Colby and Hewitt. It was I who directed the “kind lady employee” to assist you. It was I who first noticed you half rapped in your German shepard’s leash. You, in between the above ground planters and the safety netting. In addition to having large dark glasses and a German shepard, you were looking upward and all around. I can’t imagine what made me think you were blind. I shouted “Do you need help?” You said “Well, yes.” I asked if you were blind because you were about to walk into traffic. I was ready to assist you and stop traffic immediately.
No one on this contract “ambles” around. All of us work a minimum of 12 hours a day, six days a week. Wilder Construction, Salinas, Signal, A-1 and the City of Everett have done an outstanding job providing for vehicles as well as for pedestrians. Seven blocks completely redone, $9 million worth of work to keep nine underground utilities working while nine all new ones are installed in 210 days with out significant interruption is no easy task. But you know what? They will all bust their butts so you don’t have to deal with such things as sewer manholes.
Insensitive remark by a road crew member? Quite the opposite. It came from me, the city inspector looking out for you. Insensitive? Hardly. You see, Ms. Clinch, my father’s blind.
Everett
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