Peter Meyer has submitted the following letter to the Register-Star (in response to their article headlined, “Scalera Wants to Uproot Garden”), and has given permission to reproduce an advance copy here:
To the Editor:
It says a great deal about Mayor Scalera's priorities and his “vision” for the City that he would rip up a garden for kids and replace it with two parking places for cars for adults.
Please, Mr. Mayor, lets have a Youth Center that is for the kids. There's a big City-owned parking lot fifty feet away for the cars.
PETER MEYER
Hudson
NOTE #1: Meyer is a Hudson City School District Board Member and former Hudson Boys & Girls Club director, though he is writing here in a personal, not an official, capacity.
NOTE #2: It’s interesting that newfound Scalera fan Linda Mussmann is cited in the article as being ready to scoop up the youth garden activity (and presumably some related funding) slated to be axed by the Mayor. As in some previous Boys & Girls Club controversies, there’s a sense that programs are being destroyed to consolidate political control.
NOTE #3: Readers are encouraged to email copies of any letters they send to area newspapers here as well, so that the public knows what is (and isn’t) getting printed.
