Editor:
With all due respect to Linn County and SHEDG, their plan to turn the old Morse gravel pit into a permanent site for the Jamboree is not what’s needed to revive Sweet Home and the area.
What is needed is a water and amusment park complete with water slides rides, picnic areas and a place to hold concerts.
I have been to some water parks back east and have seen the people that are drawn from all over. Dorney Park in Allentown, Pa., has one such park and it sits on less ground than the old Santiam mill and the Morse gravel pit combined.
Sweet Home sits at the doorway of a wonderful recreation area. Why not make full use of it?
Sweet Home also needs to look at reality. We are too far off the I-5 corridor to bring any industry back into Sweet Home. A water park will bring thousands in every month, as well as bring needed jobs. More businesses will come in and bring more jobs.
If we are going to revitalize Sweet Home, we are going to have to be bold in our thinking to do so.
Timothy Smothers
Brownsville
SHHS Class of 1976