There has been a fund raising effort going on in order to continue the renovations of the building. We have sold raffle tickets, that give you a chance at winning $600.00. We are also selling Kroger cards and a portion of the money goes towards the cause. When you by the card it is loaded with $5.00, you can refill the card with any amount you wish and a portion will go to help the Bank Building.
I have heard that the committee has run into some opposition from the township once again. Once again they are trying to hold up the project, and demolish the structure. We have also had some of te local youth brake the locks off the doors and steal the cleaning supplies and other equipment that had been stored in the building.
My Thoughts
What is needed in this township is law-enforcement, and not the State Police and County Sheriffs riding through two times a day. We need to hire one fulltime and one or two part-time officers. The wining I hear at the township meetings is that they don’t have the money to undertake this. “Well if that is the case, where did they get the money to by the old municipal building, too tear it down and build a new building on the site?” This will also cost about 40 to 60 thousand to hire an engineer to draw up the plans for the new building.
One of the major reasons the tonwship cannot atract busineses to the area is lack of police protection. Why should we allow them to spend that kind of money on a building that is not really needed when the have plenty of builds that could house the office. I have been told that they need the space for records, and I have suggested that they have them put on a computer program, again I was told that they can’t afford it. We need to find out what they are doing with the tax dollars that we pay. The town looks like a dump, the roads are crumbling, and we lost out EMTs a long time ago.
We now have a population that is basically made up of people that were not born in this town, and have moved in because of the low rent, and taxes. (They are not really all that low.) However, when you get that happening you also find that they don’t take pride in the town because 8 out of 10 will not be here longer than 2 years.
Recently we have had a string of tagging, and vandalism by kids whose families have moved here because they were chased out of other towns for their gang type activities. I have chased some of theses kids from in front of one of the store where my wife works, for skate boarding during business hours, and harassing the older people that shop there. The only thing that happen was, they retaliated by tagging and vandalizing the store. When I told the State Police who did it they said that they have to catch them in the act. This Just one more reason law enforcement is needed in this town.
May I suggest that as many people attend the meetings as possible, and voice our concern on these problems, and if we do not get satisfaction, run people that will address them.
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