Thoughts on news topics

Dear Editor,

I agree with this person ("McCook in trouble").

McCook used to be an inexpensive place to live one of the reason I moved back to this community, but as what is said I think McCook is spending way to much money all at one time. We all need to live on a budget in this time of age. Many people live on a fixed budget and can't afford to do all that the city wants to do, so please let's all learn to live a little bit cheaper, so we all don't go hungry.

And I would also like to add that Weiland Field is a traditional site to many McCook citzens and we should leave as is. For as long as I can remember, Weiland Field has been a football stadium, and graduation site. Let's keep with tradition and look elsewhere to build the college parking lot.

I feel "Carl Smock Elementary" would be a great name for the new elementary site being done at north ward. I was honored to have Carl Smock as my ninth grade science teacher when I was in school. He was a great man, never afraid of a stranger, always made me feel just as important as anyone else, and I might have even learned something from science because of this gentle man, so I vote for our new elementry school to be called Carl Smock Elementary.

This water situation has gotten way out of hand ("Something's up with the sewer problem") and people are asking why.

I feel some bad decisions have been made for the whole of the community, and now that there is a problem, whoever made this bad decision now wants the taxpayers of McCook to pay for this really big OOPS!

Ask yourself, is this right? I feel that it isn't our problem; we didn't make it a problem, so why do we have to pay for it?

Thank you.

Cheryl Larreau

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