Editor,

In the next few months, Oak Harbor City Council will be making decisions about the new waste water treatment plant that will change how Windjammer Park and Pioneer Way look for the next 100 years.

Anyone wanting to have a say in these decisions needs to make their opinion known to their city council members right now.

On Tuesday, April 21, there is a council meeting where anyone can speak and express their ideas and concerns to the city council.

I encourage everyone to come out and make your voices known next Tuesday and at all the city council meetings for the next three months while the final designs of the new treatment plant are being decided.

Decisions over these next few months will affect the city for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren and generations afterward. What will you tell your grandchildren when they ask, “Why did the city decide to build a giant, three-story sewage plant right next to the windmill in Windjammer Park?”

Hopefully, your answer won’t be, “Because I didn’t speak up and try to stop it.”

How about if we just move it over to the six-acre Freund property on Beeksma that’s been offered to the city, where there is plenty of room and it won’t impact the park or taxpaying businesses on Pioneer Way?

Make your voices heard.

Hal Hovey

Oak Harbor