Editor,

I recently wasted a Friday morning at Island Transit headquarters only to learn that the meeting concerning wht would happen with the Tri-County Connectors linking Camano and Whidbey Islands via Mount Vernon was postponed to 9:30 a.m. Monday, April 13.

Whether you support a $2 fare on the route, as I do, or not, whether you support Island Transit being patriotic and fulfilling promises to our state legislature and to the disabled community or not, you need to let your voice be heard and demand a final decision be made on April 13 so folks with disabilities have a mere 78 days to make life-altering decisions to seek new jobs and/or to move.

I always get the wrath of Whidbey’s acutely anti-America pundits who want to close NAS Whidbey Island for saying I sure am grateful Island Transit serves OLF Coupeville for me to watch EA-18Gs train. OLF Coupeville is irreplaceably vital not just for aircrew safety, but also for the maintainers and other U.S. Navy personnel who work on aircraft carriers –- and that’s real clear to me, standing around 500 feet away hoping for afterburner. It’s a high privilege and honor to this American to answer the inner call to serve and defend plus photograph OLF Coupeville as an act of gratitude toward America’s Navy with Island Transit’s help.

Joe Kunzler

Sedro-Woolley