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The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Letters To The Editor

Road to ruin

On the west side of Liberty Lake, Liberty Creek Road for all of its two miles has prize pot holes, an estimated 345 of them!

We wonder if anyone else can match this record.

Starting at the junction of Tum Tum Drive and Liberty Creek Road are a group of a dozen, super grade. One must be three feet across!

From that point to the school bus turnaround are many prize sections on both sides of the road and in the center. (That poor bus driver!)

You can’t miss them. If you go over five miles an hour you will lose control.

From this point to our gate at the Lazy S Ranch you will find a final group of pot holes. One took five wheelbarrows of gravel to fill. Gravel lasts less than a month. Oil paving is needed.

Our final mile hasn’t been graded by the county for over five years. Liberty Creek Road is a county road. Donald N. McLean Liberty Lake

What’s good behavior?

When I think of a small town, I think of community togetherness, caring neighbors, school spirit and, most of all, pride.

Unfortunately I am finding none of this to be true.

In the last few months I have been extremely embarrassed and let down by one school district in particular, Liberty.

Starting with front-page articles stating students have been literally forced out of school by their peers’ harassment to hearing of teachers being physically attacked by their own students.

I recently attended a girls’ basketball game to enjoy a night of well-spirited entertainment. While watching the team do their warm-ups I noticed one team member had a bulge under her sock. After asking others around me I found that this girl, a starting player who never sat on the bench throughout the whole game, had been convicted of a felony. It was not her first time in trouble and she had been sentenced to wear a juvenile home monitoring device on her ankle.

As I sat through this game, I asked myself why she was even allowed to play any sport at all under the circumstances. I thought all athletes were to sign a code of ethics and I was unaware that committing crimes would be considered an allowed action.

As I recall, Liberty School District said they have “zero tolerance” toward any type of misbehavior.

I guess I just don’t understand their definition of misbehavior. Lynn Putt Spokane

Good Samaritans

Yesterday my car stalled when I stopped for the light on Broadway at Havana.

I’d been there a short time when a truck stopped for the light in the next lane and the gentleman rolled down his window and asked if anyone had gone for help.

He didn’t have a cell phone but said he was heading into the shop and would call AAA for me, as I’m a member.

Later, another gentleman in a black pickup truck going the other way, stopped and asked what was wrong. He parked off the road and walked back to check it out. Then he pushed my car around the corner.

He walked back to get his truck and came back to let me use his cell phone to call AAA.

I am very grateful that some people don’t mind getting involved. You gentlemen know who you are. A big “thank you” again and God bless. Josie Bucknell Spokane

Thanks to Eller Corp.

This letter is more of a thank you and a public acknowledgment of an act of kindness by a company that has done so much in the last week for the Newman Lake community.

I am referring to the Eller Corporation and its owners. They have spent many hours and a lot of energy in helping to contain the flooding of this area all week.

While many people who would not have been affected by the flooding came to the aid of the residents who had been, these people and their employees did so much above and beyond to help. Sand, barricades, and a containment area for the water was dug as well as anything else in their power was donated willingly.

My family was not affected by the flooding, but I would like to thank the Ellers on behalf of the entire community for a job very well done! Glenna Gade Newman Lake