Letters to the Editor

 

To the Editor:

Maybe I am a little biased because I am his daughter but I feel that there is no one better than Tim Joy for the position of Civil Defense coordinator.
He helped the town of New Gloucester through Hurricane Bob, Ice Storm '98, and all of our other "disasters". He's been at it since I was three years old. If fifteen years of experience doesn't count for anything anymore, then this is a world gone mad.

Did anyone bother to ASK him for his opinion on continuing before this thing started to boil over? My guess, whether it be right or wrong, is no. Just because he couldn't make a selectmen's meeting (because of FIRE DEPARTMENT TRAINING, as if that isn't enough for civil defense) doesn't mean that someone couldn't have picked up the phone for five minutes and given him a call. "Say, Tim, are you still thinking about continuing as Civil Defense Manager?"

He is the type of man that would step up to the plate and tell the selectmen if he was not going to apply, or if he even had a problem with anyone else applying for the job. I don't think he would have a problem with that. He knows that everyone is entitled to a take a turn. I do not believe that my father was miffed at the fact that there might be other applicants. Not for a second.

I moved out of state for college, but I read The Monument online. That's how I found out about this mess. For the past three and a half weeks that I have been away from "home" I've sometimes wondered why I moved away from New Gloucester. It was the place I called home for all of my eighteen years. Well, now I know why.

Melanie Joy
High Point, North Carolina
(formerly and probably never again of New Gloucester)