Commissioners should try to keep patio on building

I believe that an outdoor patio at the new South Campus building, which was recently cut from the county project, would not only benefit seniors during meal service during warmer weather, but also county employees and guests for socialization. 

It is a well-established fact that vitamin D, which is generated by sunlight, is good for brain, bone and muscle function which most seniors don’t get enough of as they age. I don’t agree that a rest home should be compared to the Agency on Aging and senior center, when it comes to the use of an outdoor socialization patio area. 

I thank the commissioners for their efforts in making this long overdue building project a reality, as well as working to assist our aging population now and in the future. The new senior service and activity center is a community project; as such, we hope to be able to make the outdoor patio area a reality. —Jim Pearson, former president, Kalispell Senior Center

How ’bout fair shot?

With all that’s going on in the world and this country it seems pretty unimportant to be writing on  this subject but here goes anyhow.

Is the state of Montana (in the form of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks) fair in the way they have the drawings for sheep, goat or moose? I don’t think so, and here is why:

Every year you see in the paper where some kid fresh out of hunter safety draws one of these permits, gets the animal, (or we hope he or she was the one) and gets their picture in the paper. Now this does not affect my wife or myself as we have given up the hope of ever drawing a moose tag and have given up hunting almost entirely, but those kids do not have the years of hoping and paying their money to the state nor of paying extra to be put on a so-called preference list. I know people who have a total of 39 so-called points who can’t get drawn and also at least one who has been drawn twice during that time.

I think it’s great that the kids get to hunt, but I just don’t think it’s fair the way they and other first-timers get put in the drawings. It should go back to the way it used to be where the ones with the most points and years of hoping and putting up their money get the first shot. A lot of people won’t agree with m,e but we are talking about fairness here and for what it’s worth, that’s my take on it. —Glen Hook, Kalispell