Editor: Sweet Home has a vast number of people who are willing to serve others and help out when needs arise. What a wonderful community we live in where people can come together for a variety of causes they believe in: restoring the Weddle Bridge, beautifying the city with a new median project, feeding and clothing the hungry, building a new Senior Center/Boys and Girls Club, cleaning up the downtown, fundraising for burn victims and now, most recently building a new house for a local disabled man. All of us should be proud to live in this community – a community that continues to give because we know it is the right thing to do. That being said, I’d also like to thank our City Council for making tough decisions when so many community efforts come their way asking for fees to be waived. The City Council represents over 9,000 citizens, many of whom pay property taxes to support municipal efforts such as fire/life safety, public library, roads and drinking water. Not all of these citizens may support individual causes that some of us are passionate about and unfortunately, Councilmen have a difficult task to make sure public money is spent prudently, ensuring the cause benefits the majority of the community and not a particular individual. The “Harper Project” is most definitely a worthy cause and I’d like to personally thank Mike Melcher for leading the way to help Mr. Harper; doing so with class, I might add. To those who stomp their feet and curse when they don’t get their way, it is unfortunate that your behavior overshadows this positive project. City Council is doing their job to represent all citizens to the best of their ability and it’s our job as individuals to raise money and awareness for the projects we personally feel passionate about; not demean our local representatives and/or individuals because we don’t get our way. Those of you who would like to financially support this project, there is an account set up at our local Key Bank. My donation is in the mail.