Letters To The Editor

Sat., Dec. 2, 2000

Wheelchair trails don’t belong on Tubbs Hill

I wish to express an opinion concerning Tubbs Hill. I have been around Tubbs Hill many times. It was always a delightful place to take my children. They enjoyed the adventure and the pristine beauty. My children are grown, and when they are home they take the grandchildren to Tubbs Hill. It is a special place in all our hearts.

No longer am I able to go around the hill. Some things I must put aside.

Our city is very fortunate to have Tubbs Hill and I hope it can remain in its natural state for coming generations to enjoy as I and my children did.

It would be a disaster to the beauty of Tubbs Hill to make it wheelchair adaptable. To build trails that would accommodate wheelchairs would be extremely expensive, plus very destructive to the natural beauty.

Trail maintenance must always be a project for Tubbs Hill, but it should remain our Tubbs Hill. Trudy R. Beck Coeur d’Alene

Post Falls Library needs to be family friendly

“First it was the Internet and now this” says one Post Falls Library Board member. Well, yes, Michelle, first it was the Internet. For those who don’t recall, about a year ago concerned citizens found the new library building was a magnet for children seeking hard-core pornography through the city’s Internet connection. When the library management was informed, it initially denied that a problem existed. When a concerned citizen proved the problem by printing the access history - a history that included names of Web sites so horrific that even the news reporter was embarrassed when they were read out loud - management solved the problem. How? By shutting off the access history mechanism! When outraged citizens protested long enough and loud enough, the library board reluctantly took baby steps toward solving the problem. Not by using the Idaho State Internet system designed to keep objectionable material out while providing otherwise excellent Internet connection. That would be “censorship.” The Post Falls Library now restricts private viewing rooms to adults only - so that all of us taxpayers subsidize hard-core porn on demand for the perverts among us.

As for the video issue, why not do as Coeur d’Alene has so wisely done? Just say no to adult-content videos. Post Falls is a family town. Why can’t the Post Falls Library be family friendly? Nathan W. Crozier Post Falls

Breckenridge story brings back memories

I read with great delight the article written by Patrick Haight, “Painting the West,” (Nov. 4 Handle Extra).

This article brought back come memories, quite a few, in fact. You see, I have two of Joe Breckenridge’s paintings in my home. Joe painted one for our new home and charged me a beer. My wife and I talked with him and drank a beer while he painted it.

On the back of the picture is the date, 1971, and later on that year I taped a picture of Joe and an article about him on the back of the painting. It is still there, and the painting still hangs in our home.

The other picture does not have a date on it. I think it is older because Joe’s green rubber stamp mark is not on it. As he got older, he used a green rubber stamp to sign his paintings if he had too much to drink.

I grew up in Post Falls, and I worked in the old Farver’s Food market for many years. That’s where I got to know Joe Breckenridge.

Did anyone save the duck Joe painted on the ceiling of the old pool hall in Post Falls? That was incredible. You had to see it to believe it. Wayne Kamps Spokane

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