Editor,

Why is Washington State University looking at Greenbank Farm, where the community gathers, eats, shops, walks the trails and marvels at the brilliance of cooperation it took to make the farm a community asset for all to enjoy?

Why, when we have an ideal potential for a college campus at the Clinton Market shopping plaza? Classrooms, lecture halls — it’s all going for a very good price.

Clinton is the gateway to the island. We all put on blinders as we go through because it has become shabby, run down and has too many empty store fronts. Imagine a college campus here, right up the hill, and a free bus ride from the ferry.

Imagine people of all ages coming here to study.

Imagine that and you imagine more coffee shops and stores and places to hang out. You imagine baskets of flowers hanging from all the businesses along the highway.

Perhaps you imagine restaurants that feature local food that can feed the imagination of the Farm to Table Everett Campus students.

You imagine offices for farm tours and lectures about food and farming attended by people from both sides of the water. You imagine tourists marveling at how beautiful it is right off the ferry the way we do in Friday Harbor.

C’mon folks, give Clinton a chance. And what a great chance it would be to have a college campus funded by the state Legislature.

Turn your eyes south, and lay off Greenbank Farm.

Vicki Robin

Langley