Have we lost our will?

Editor:

An excerpt from K. Ross Toole's last lecture, June 1, 1981:

"We could say, we have the legal right to say, you come, but you come on our terms … we have that power and as you know it is enormously difficult to exert it. But we can say you come and you can develop our valleys, but you will develop them in such a way that you do not lose what you came to find."

My personal opinion, as stated on Oct. 5, 1998:

It is my personal opinion that a potable drinking water well and a septic system drainfield located on the same one acre or smaller lake-front lot is a sure way to destroy what we came to find.

As our population in the sewer district doubles and doubles again, zoning changes can be regarded as a certainty.

Given two failed attempts in 16 years to build a sewer system, it appears we have lost our will to succeed or our control of the political process, or both.

P.B. Stanley, Director,

West Shore Sewer District

Polson (Oct. 5, 1998)