I want to applaud Kelly Ogle’s letter headlined “Cortez opens its arms to all drunks” (Journal, May 26.) About a year ago, I wrote concerning the drunks at Centennial Park.
The paper later published replys to this from citizens comparing the Elks Lodge to the park. Well, the Elks Lodge is an organization with a bar — it’s not a public park.
Since then we’ve had people knock on our door for money for the free lunch at the Methodist Church, a shirt because they lost theirs, wanting to sleep on our house chairs, arrested from our front lawn.
A meeting with the police chief and city managers got us nowhere but we were told that the supreme court states drunks have an “illness.”
I am disgusted at seeing drunks sleep on the tables that families use for picnics; lying drunk where people walk and children play; urinating on the grass; etc.
Once again, I must ask — where’s our pride?
Thanks to Ogle for her letter and maybe something will be done. There’s now two of us.
J.A. Krause
Cortez