What if byway supporters showed up at meeting?

Well, there it is folks, Ralph Sletager's development plan for the east bank of Sand Creek. An entire community for the have and have mores. The ulterior motive behind the anti-byway cartel as I've said all along. (Bee, Oct. 27) We'll be lucky if us natives can even use the beach.

OK, let's play "what if" …

What if Ralph gets his roundabout? (There will never be an absurd tunnel). Visitors won't see downtown, they're funneled to either Dover (Bay) or north along Fifth to Ponderay.

This along with his new upscale community and its own tourist shops on the east bank, (let's call it Ralphville), and the fact that most local people shop in Ponderay now … it was nice knowing you, downtown. The grassroots Ralph talks of will be over your grave. And do you really want to see: "The Festival at Ralphville?"

What if we're tired of hearing Ralph and others talk of us being a tourist destination due to national publications. One of the primary causes for our huge property tax bills are those who have moved here with large wallets, courtesy of Ralph, Liz, Pierre, Potter and the rest of the Addams family. Sandpoint is fast becoming a mockery of its former self.

Please attend the public meeting at the high school, Monday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m. for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Idaho Department of Lands. Express the position of the real grassroots majority in support of the Sand Creek Byway.

LAWRENCE FURY

Sandpoint