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4:30 PM Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Well, I guess it is obvious now that our city is being run by petty autocrats. How many of you did it take to decide to destroy the flower beds at the historic Pioneer Cemetery?

The bulbs and plants, mulch, etc., were donated by many local businesses and individuals, and the labor was performed by volunteers. There’s no doubt as to the reason — this was the most hurtful thing that could legally be done to get back at those who are causing difficulties for the city management. (It was) Revenge because you are going to have to answer for the neglect of the city’s legal duty to care for this property.

There were no overgrown flower beds that I could see and I drove through the cemetery several times during the summer. Anyway, aren’t “overgrown” flowers preferable to overgrown weeds and brush?

A few summers ago, city trucks were provided to haul away the weeds and brush cut by volunteer laborers. Now the flowers are removed so “it will be easier to cut the grass.” Why not just remove the tombstones? (It would be) much easier to mow then. Of course, that would be illegal, so it won’t happen. But what’s going to be next to go?

The flagpole and its surrounding bed? The new trees, one of which my late husband and I paid for, to honor his family members buried there? The new fence and gates the city paid for or the water faucet it installed so that plants could be watered with a hose?

Of course, the city had the lawful right to take out the flower beds, but it certainly was not the right thing to do. It’s actions like these that are so harmful to our city’s image. Why can’t you people do the right thing for a change?

Glenna Combs

Middletown

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Glenna
I need to make a correction to your statement..It was illegal for them to remove the flower beds at the cemetery just as it would illegal for me to remove the tree that you donated and plant it in my back yard or go to Woodside and remove their plants and see what happens to you. The City did not own the plants they removed.

Vivian Moon
10:51 AM, 11/5/2009

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