Why do Idahoans no longer deserve a break?

Our family moved to Sandpoint 50-plus years ago and became very active in efforts to work in the community. A charter member of the Idaho Native Plant Society, was appointed by the bgovernor as a charter member of the Idaho Travel Committee, was the first woman Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce

director, an early member of CAL, a group raising funds for grants for various community needs and scholarships to students at all county schools. A member of Beta Sigma Phi. A member of Women in Business, supporting women starting their own business.

We worked on the first Festival at Sandpoint and many community projects. A director of the K&K lake fishing group, supporting fisheries, director of the first Winter Carnival downtown.

We have volunteered endlessly while building our home on Bottle Bay Road where we had no neighbors full time, maybe a few summer cabins. We both owned local businesses when it was very challenging to make profits while raising two daughters.

We now are retired and living on our Social Security only and have been depending on the "circuit breaker" for a little help with our taxes which have gone up regularly. I received a letter that Idaho can't afford to honor that after all the paperwork was turned in months ago.

I have been a huge supporter of Idaho and my area all these years. Now I am being surrounded by new arrivals, building mansions right on top of us. Now we no longer deserve a break?

SHERRY METZ

Sagle