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We Must Nurture our Local Organizations, Not Defame Them
To the Editor:
Should it be necessary for our best local organizations to have a defense mechanism?
Due to recent events in town our local volunteer organizations have been under attack.
• Is it now necessary for the goodness of the community to spend their precious resources defending themselves?
• Is it now necessary to ask questions simply to create an atmosphere of indictment?
• Is it now necessary for our outstanding volunteer organizations, and now our libraries to take cover and form a defensive posture?
• Is it now necessary for us to abandon our common and decent civic responsibility to nurture our local organizations?
• Is it now necessary to defame our local organizations?
If so it is now necessary to for us to abandon common sense!
These organizations are part of what is good in our community. They should be preserved, and if not respected for their service, left alone to do the jobs they have proven they can do. I bet if you ask anyone who volunteers in any one of these organizations why their organization works, they all will have different opinions.
Let’s face it, in this day and age anyone who devotes as much time and energy to make these organizations run is an extremely precious resource. What makes them strong is also very fragile. What makes them work? Who really knows? Let’s not kick around the good nature of these organizations, their timber is rare and in short supply.
I hope that the people in our community including our elected officials recognize that the people who make up these organizations are our unsung heroes. And the organizations that they form have a long history of service to the community. These organizations historically have not had to defend themselves. Their good work has always been enough. Does doing good need to be indicted? Or are we going to create an atmosphere where the saying” no good deed goes unpunished” becomes the reality for those who selflessly give their time in service to their community.
These organizations should not have to defend their good work. They should be promoted, supported and encouraged by the community ! I ask those who read this to ask themselves, do you want to give credence to those who wish to create indictment; an atmosphere that ultimately is destructive and benefits no one?
C. Haeger Heintz
Garrison
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