Take care, look forward
to hearing from you, God Bless Roze
 

Mayor Aultman,

 

I am writing to express my concerns about the upcoming Treehouse Trial.
(Not that I have any doubts that the treehouse will be allowed to
remain- no human being in their right mind could deny children a
treehouse to play in, especially one as attractive and safe as the one
in question.)  I just can't believe that a fair and reasonable
community leader could take up against a treehouse.  Everyone loves
treehouses.  I see by your city's website that you are attempting to
promote Clinton Mississippi as a good place for people to move their
families and businesses to.  But banning treehouses seems to me a very
self-defeating method of seeking that goal.  Very few families,
especially those with small children, want to live in a town where
adults are not permitted to construct a fort, a playhouse, or an
innocent treehouse for their children.  My God!  You'd think they had
built a brothel in their front yard the way you've been carrying on
about it.  Not only is a treehouse completely harmless, but a nice
treehouse could actually be used to promote the neighborhood and the
town in which it resides.  Instead of that corny picture of Land's End
catalog models playing leapfrog on the main page of the city's
website, you could have a professional photograph of the kids and their
parents in front of the treehouse.  Just an idea.  My suggestion to
you is to embrace the treehouse as it embodies the good-natured,
fun-loving side of the community and gives the neighborhood children a
chance to play and learn and dream and grow during the most important
years of their lives.  It seems you were wrong, Mayor Aultman, when
you said about building and playing in playhouses that "today's
children would find this extremely boring."  These children are the
future of your city.  If you take away their playground, they will
find another one.  And the new one might not be so benign.  I've been
following this story for some time now, and I think it is one of the
top ten most ridiculous things I have ever seen.  For the government
of a growing municipality to nitpick over a CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND is
completely backwards and asinine.  Don't you think there are more
important issues affecting your town that might be more worth the time
and money to improve?  You are creating a really poor image for the
town.  I live in Orlando, Florida and I've never even been to
Mississippi, and I'm not the only person from outside Clinton who has
heard about this scandal and gotten an instant bad taste in her mouth
because of it.  It is politicians like you, on a local and global level,
 that make it so difficult to enjoy life.  And you do this all in the
name of progress.  Of what use is progress if we cannot enjoy it in
whatever harmless way ! we choose?  And how, indeed, can we say we are
"progressing" if we do not nurture the needs of our children, the true
foundation of any progress that we may hope to achieve, during their
formative and most impressionable years?  What kind of example are you
setting for these children?  Well, Mayor Aultman, enjoy your term in
office.  From what I've read, you seem to have lost political support from

people in Clinton and all over the world- all because of a treehouse.

 

Sincerely,
Leslie Starr O'Hara

starrohara@earthlink.net