Consolidation editorial struck home

August 21, 2013 | LXXIII, No. 21

You can’t realize how pleased I was to read your editorial this week. It was Rod’s dream that all of the small communities might join together to make a stronger town (or should it be city?) which would benefit everyone living in the area. He had arranged for a special grant, hiring a research group from (I think it was WSU) who researched all the possibilities and benefits which could be had.

I believe there was a vote on it, but the lack of desire to change by a great majority of the communities made it impossible to spend more time and money trying to convince the people at that time...

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