Published: June 29, 2009 09:51 pm      

Letters to the editor - Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Kirk, Davis have clean consciences

It’s been a month since I saw Deanna Kirk’s letter in the Tribune concerning the long, drawn out episode of her husband, Jeff Kirk, and Greg Davis. I was so glad to see her letter.

It was an excellent letter telling the true facts of this whole story that has caused so much unnecessary stress.

Like she said, we expect our policemen, firemen and other government officials to do everything to uphold the law in our community. Policemen risk their lives every day to keep us safe.

It was very discouraging to see this case go on and on. Then, for doing the right thing, for them to be disrespected and disciplined and their reputations to be questioned by those who could have so easily have told the truth and honored them for being willing to stand for integrity, honesty and wanting respectable officers to serve with.

What does this have to say to our children and grandchildren concerning leaders we want them to look up to as role models that they can follow?

We and many other people in this community highly respect both families involved in this ordeal and are so glad they stood for the truth and kept their integrity and continued to do the right thing under extreme stress and discouragement.

If our leaders in this community aren’t willing to tell the truth, we know that eventually everything will be exposed because God honors those who stand for righteousness. What’s done in the darkness will be revealed. At least the Kirks and Davises have a clean conscience.

Verl and Shirley Hochstedler

Kokomo

Foster: Right choice for new bandstand

Way too much negative comments are being said about the new bandstand in Foster Park. The new band stand will be a major asset to Kokomo. The negative people have a right to voice concern. I have a right to several counter-points.

Location: Foster Park is the right choice because it’s downtown and can handle a crowd.

Parking: There’s plenty of “pavement” parking one, two, three or four blocks away in Foster Park. How do you park cars in the grass and not kill the grass or make large ruts when it rains in Highland Park?

View-ability: Some of you think the new stage should be built in Highland Park, but if you do that people sitting back 150 yards away won’t be able to see the band playing because of all the 2-foot-wide trees in the way. You would have to cut down 25 or more big trees in Highland Park to provide a clearing to view the stage. Foster Park has no trees to cut down. Very important point.

Crowds: Very unlikely Highland Park can handle 6,000 people. Foster Park can easily handle this.

Traffic noise: The loud amplifiers will drown out most of the traffic noise.

Mosquitoes: Highland Park has many times more mosquitoes than Foster Park.

Thank you, Kokomo, for building this beautiful bandstand in Foster Park. There’s an old saying: You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

David J. Gee

Kokomo