Thank you
Volunteers show the spirit of Earth Day
It was good to see so many volunteers out on Saturday, April 21, honoring Earth Day by cleaning up around the city. In addition to thanking them, I’d also like to say thank you to Marci Chew of the City of Mill Creek for organizing this effort.
It’s also a good time to remind all of us that we can all contribute to Earth Day during the other 364 days of the year by not littering and perhaps picking up a piece or two of litter when we’re out exercising. Let’s try to make every day Earth Day in Mill Creek.
Rosemary Bennetts
Mill Creek City Councilwoman
Food banks, and the hungry, need help
Thank you for the great story about the food banks in our community.
Each of them has needs for truck drivers, volunteer helpers and cash donations So that we can continue to purchase food.
One important error in the story needs corrected. The Mountlake Terrace Food Bank continues to provide $1,000 each month to the Family Support Center to enable them to help individuals and families with a large variety of unmet needs: motel rooms, rent and utility assitance. The Lynnwood Food Bank does not give that specific aid to the Family Support Center.
Please continue to publish the names and addresses of the food banks in the community.
Rev. Richard K. Gibson
Food bank coordinator
Virginia Tech
Gun control laws don’t make country safer
While the shootings at Virginia Tech are sad for the school and the country, one must stand back and recognize the fact that gun control laws do not work! Neither the school nor the police can protect you! They can only respond after the fact. By the way, the largest mass murder in this country, which I am aware of, was not from guns. It was the Happy Land Nightclub arson/murder in 1990. That killer was convicted of 87 counts of second-degree murder.
After the first two shootings at Virginia Tech, school administration is culpable in the deaths as the shooter! The school is fully guilty of violating the rights of all law abiding citizens by having stripped away the U.S. Constitutional right of citizens who have a legal canceled weapons permit, to defend themselves and those around them. By making the school a mandated “victim disarmament” zone, the school administration denied the right of self-defense under the Second Amendment!
Had this not been a “gun safe” zone, it is more than likely that a legal carry individual(s) would have stopped this lunatic before he killed over 30 people!
Maxwell S. Fischbach
Lynnwood
Handicap access
Popular restaurant should accommodate
I moved here in 1943, am now 76 years of age and living in our beautiful city of Edmonds. I have always been very proud to share with family and friends with pride how our city fathers have tried to install rules and regulations for the benefit of all of its citizens and guests.
The city has installed handicap access on most of its city corners for wheel chairs, has required multiple dwellings to have handicap access parking and convenience. I know people who are handicapped, both young an old, that would love to join their family and friends at Claire’s, but are unable to because there is no handicap access.
I have seen people turn around and leave because they were unable to handle the stairs into the restaurant.
It embarrasses me because some of these people are friends of mine and they feel embarrassed when one, two or three people have to help them with their wheel chairs or walkers up and down the steps. They do not deserve this kind of treatment.
Claire’s, you should be the one embarrassed.
Larry Nordby
Edmonds
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