Letter: Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District needs to step up for homeless by Kathleen L. Samsel – March 1, 2021

I am very saddened and very upset with Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District last meeting report. You have failed to live up to the high caring and helping standards of the people of our area.

First, you did not listen to the many folks that questioned your purchase of the old, unsafe middle school. You paid no attention to professional people telling you how dangerous and in need of repair and the costs associated.

Even as the nation was in a COVID-19 pandemic you felt you could move ahead without truly involving the community and listening….

Read the letter in the Seaside Signal here.

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

~Edward Everett Hale

“To end homelessness, a community-wide coordinated approach to delivering services, housing, and programs is needed.” —National Alliance to End Homelessness

“One thing is certain: There is almost always resistance from individuals and organizations seeking to defend the status quo.” —Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives

“… middle-class values cannot be imposed on those who have had no access to middle-class comforts.” —Lloyd Pendleton