Thank you for the article and open information you’ve supplied about P.W. Murphy’s plans for a striptease in September. I have now changed my mind about not reading the paper regularly. I’ve been too busy in my community, work and family, paying little attention to local news.

I never knew P.W. Murphy’s had male exotic dancers! Wow. Matt Patton says it made lots of money and I bet it did!

My family and friends and I have been enjoying the restaurant because we liked the atmosphere and the food really is good. But I think we have just not understood the nature of clientele Murphy’s is committed to attracting. Ooops!

The planned striptease will undoubtedly make some impressive money on Sept. 14. But it will mark the very last time my family, friends or I will meet there for any reason. There are plenty of other places to go for a nice dinner or lunch and more are opening all the time.

P.W. Murphy’s exists in a free community. Matt Patton says he’s heard nothing negative about this new venture and that might be because some of us were just too busy minding our own business to notice. Well, now I do notice: I don’t want to contribute to bringing strippers into my community (whether on Pioneer or Goldie Road) and think I will take my business elsewhere.

So the downward trend of a business and the community supporting it begins . . .

Arlin Deal

Oak Harbor