Editor:
Re: The Dragon Slayers, Oct. 24
As citizens, we are pleased that Whatcom County officially turned down the application for the radio towers in Point Roberts.
We would like to thank all the many citizens who worked on this issue.
However, we are appalled that MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay and Mayor Lois Jackson are taking credit for working with the citizens on this issue.
The coalition of citizens drove this fight against the towers. They worked tirelessly to inform the community, bring in money for lawyers, and wrote letters to the politicians.
I was one person who wrote to Findlay almost a year ago, only to receive a letter with a list of existing towers in Richmond and Delta. Fortunately addresses were attached and I was able to look up where these towers were placed. I wrote back that almost all of these towers were in fields, or near warehouses and none were near large populations. Findlay also repeated the facts of her letter in the Optimist early this spring.
None of the politicians (except Vicki Huntington) seemed supportive of the citizens' fight on this issue, saying there was little they could do about something in the United States.
Eventually they did write letters to Whatcom County and were willing to speak at the hearing.
However, to have a cartoon calling them "Dragon Slayers" and to quote Jackson as saying, "Many concerned Delta citizens, who banded together and worked in concert with us against the proposal," is a gross exaggeration.
This issue was won by citizens working together across borders. Politicians had little to do with it.
Louise and Jim Hudson
