Pair of Letter-writers ask why wrecking yard near park, residential area

Letter to the Editor,

To whom it may or may not concern, but perhaps it should concern.

Something rotten is going on at J. Neils Park.

A very few people seem to want to turn it into a “watering hole” for a select few — and a junk yard  — and we are not told anything about it. It all just happens. 

It looks like J. Neils Park will soon be surrounded by the next new Libby Dump.

Sorry homeowners, you are not a concern.

Has anyone else noticed the amount of garbage surrounding the J. Neils Park? 

• Abandoned cars, leaking into the soil;

• Rusty equipment dangerously close to where our children play. 

• Unsightly property within a stones throw of the same park we use to show our city pride and attract visitors/tourists? 

How is it that a propane tank as permitted so close to a public facility and where people live?

And what is that new orange tank for? Are they dumping asbestos there? 

How is it someone is being allowed to do these things, and on the town dime, while the people who are impacted are kept out of the loop? 

What exactly is going on out there and why is no one addressing the situation?

I really do not want the water tanks out there by J. Niels Park, especially when they can continue to get water from the Kootenai like they have been doing.

I also do not want a car dump site leaking into the drinking water of the residents living near J. Niels Park.

— Neils Parkinson

Libby 

Resident wants

salvage answers

Letter to the Editor,

I think each of us has failed, at one point or another, to pay attention to the community we live in. 

We take it for granted everything is fine and that our neighbors and community are made up of honest and well-meaning people … until we find ourselves face to face with proof this is not the case.

In the past five years my building number has been changed and Champion Haul Road has been renamed the very generic “Park Way.”

It is bad enough we still have a propane tank on this road but recently a new large orange tank was installed on the same road.

What was once a quiet and secluded place to come home to has been converted into a filling station! 

The water from the land we draw our well water has since attracted a constant, dusty, and noisy parade of trucks … many rentals.

Now, I learn the county is looking into opening a junk yard next to J. Neils Park. 

It’s clear to me the powers that be are e trying to squeeze us out to build some kind of new Libby Dump … closer to town and with services only a select few benefit from.

I want to take this opportunity to thank you — whoever you are — for reminding us that the people of this community do not deserve or need to be served by you and that we are dumb animals for you to push about as you see fit.

— Zachare Daugherty

Libby