Letters - Oct. 7, 2010

Not the answer

Try this: No farms, no families. No families, no children. No children, no school. No school, no town!

CRP is not a farm. It is not a tool. It is not the answer.

How about a hospital without a town? I don’t think so!

Just some of my thoughts after the front page last week. CRP up. Hospital down. Doesn’t anyone see?

Doug Schuster, St. John

An honor

It was an honor for me to ring the school bell at the dedication of the Jones School House on Sept 9th at the Palouse Empire Fair. The school is one of the few one room schools left in Whitman County. It is still in great usable shape.

The first thing the pioneers who settled in the late 1880’s did was to build churches and school houses as their gathering places for the community.

The citizens of Whitman County are proud of the efforts of so many individuals who played a role in bringing the Jones School House to the fairground and appreciate the families of the Ted and Lois Jean Repp and Randy Repp for their donation of the school house.

The fair foundation board, fair board, Fair Manager Bob Reynolds members of the Dusty BB Club who used it and kept it up after it was no longer in use as a school, and many others were important in bringing this all together.

Now we have the honor to buy memorial stones ($100 and $200) from the fair foundation to honor of our past and current families. They will be placed in the front entrance to the school

I want to buy the first and last gallon of paint needed to repaint the Jones School House and donate my time to help with the project. I challenge the citizens of Whitman County to join me in this effort to help with the expenses of the paint and the labor for our prestigious new addition to our fairground.

Let’s join together as a team and come together to get this project finished.

Les Wigen, Coeur d’Alene