IF THERE'S NO PARK, WE'LL DO DRUGS

I'm a 12-year-old student that reads your paper quite often. Well, today I
picked up the paper to get the 411 on the new skate park. Not to my
surprise, I found some were excited about the new pool and opposed the
skate park. Their reason is it's too dangerous or they feel the tax
increase is going to scare away the industry. I read the paper a lot and
see all the drug cases that happen, and I think, "What if that was me or my
friends that are the druggies in the paper."

Well, if you don't provide us some place to get off the streets then we
just might be one of the druggies on the front page of the paper.

Yeah, there is a risk in skating, but with drugs we'll have more of a
chance of getting ourselves killed. It's worth ever penny of the tax
increase to keep the kids of McMinnville off drugs.

Austin Cleek
114 Westwood 4th Ave, McMinnville