As taxpayers we should fight for access to all public properties. The maintenance of these properties and land is paid for by us, so we should not be prohibited from these facilities or land in any way.
Corner-crossing onto public land has been an issue for as long as we can remember, but within the last several years we’ve seen an uproar around this subject.
Last Saturday afternoon, I sat in a room full of our own community members and listened to them yell at each other to shut up, call each other liars, tell each other they didn't know what they were talking about, and basically treat each other more like nameless strangers on the other side of a computer screen than like neighbors.
Following a nearly 24-hour power outage in the Platte Valley, we believe a variety of kudos must be sent out now that power has been restored and things have returned to normal in our communities.
I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word.
