Dear Editor,
I was wrong about Great Bend. It hasn’t went to the dogs, it has went to the rich who want to make sure the rest of us are miserable and poor.
You keep printing in the paper how normal Veterans Lake is.
There is nothing normal and never will be as anyone driving down the street on Broadway to McKinley knows.
Any one with a brain in their head knows that all those chemicals from lawns have to be going somewhere and it’s not the sewer. Unless of course you want to rename Veterans Lake to Sewer Lake. That could be a better name for it.
A friend gave me a trout from Veterans Lake once; and I was so excited! It didn’t taste like any trout I’d ever eaten. In fact it was waste of ingredients and time. Slivered almonds are rather expensive you know, as is everything. Not to mention a waste of my energy.
My land lord decided to raise the rent.
I said “no thanks, this isn’t a castle you know.”
Then I was talking to a friend and asked her what she was paying. $650 for an apartment. I liked to fell off the couch.
In Mandeville La., which is the wealthiest community in La.; I lived in a three bedroom brick home with a two car attached garage with door openers for $700 a month.
When I lived in Hendersonville, Tenn., I lived in an apartment with a fireplace, water, trash, cable, internet paid for $500. Gretchen Wilson’s guitar player also lived there, Rascal Flatts was just starting up and from time to time his bus and all the band members were there. It wasn’t the least unusual to run into Lori Morgan shopping. Now her husband, Marty Stuart, was a different story, he’d run into you.
Then I moved to an apartment with Grecian pillars, a big bay window, huge bath room, fireplace, pantry the works. My only bill electric. It had a heat pump so the bill was only $65 a month regardless of summer or winter. All of the places I lived had a dishwasher, they were all sprayed and kept up. When I say sprayed, I mean deadly for the bugs, as safe as water for humans. Kinda like soap. The rent was $450 and had access to the lake. The clean lake.
Great Bend has some of the nicest people I have ever met in my life in it. Unfortunately; it also has some very wealthy people (my land lord is not wealthy) that are determined to make everyone work two and three jobs to survive. The rich don’t pay, as I felt like pointing out to a TV station when fatso was telling all about his great hot tubs, but his employee was standing there in ragged jeans. Geez I wonder how many other people noticed that?
Jessie Devine,
Great Bend