This is in response to the letter ” Grateful for Senior Center and its dedicated staff,” (Recorder, Jan. 20). Aside from thinking it was only submitted because of the recent negative publicity around a certain staff member who fired a dedicated and much loved dance instructor, Kathy Steinem, a couple of other things came to mind. Do people also remember when they needed the council’s approval to build it, the public was told it would be open to all of the community? Yet, when the library shut down their basement (meeting rooms) because of “safety issues,” our community center would not open its doors to them and after school teen and family programs had to be canceled. Secondly, we are told the reason for the size of the new library is because it will include needed meeting rooms? Yet, time and time again we hear stories of people trying to use/rent the John Zon community center, but are denied. We wouldn’t have needed the square footage in the new library, if the community center would have been more cooperative sharing their meeting rooms! I had/have solutions, but it is wasted breath on this administration.

Dawn Marie Morin

Greenfield

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