MHS lights, the lagoon, our schools, our community. . .
There is no better time to celebrate the unique and compassionate place we all live than the Fourth of July. Where else would you have passionate voices praising and condemning the need for improved athletic fields, and a surfer community banding together to save a marsh, and a community looking to form its own school district? All done in the name of creating, preserving and honoring a greater local community!
Whether we oppose or support these important issues, we should all step back and celebrate the fact that we can have such divergent points of view and can debate them in a reasonable public discourse and find places of common interest and agree to disagree.
As I listened to the debate recently over the high school lights and the lagoon I was struck by the passionate feelings on both sides of the issue. How we as a community can still operate as a small town even though we are increasingly surrounded by forces outside our control that would prefer we operate as a big city.
As we celebrate our nation’s history, let’s all take a moment to feel united in the knowledge that opposing voices can be heard, that a community remains intact and that we live in such an amazing place.
Seth Jacobson