Editor:
Re: Line not crossed, Murphy’s Law, Sept. 19
I applaud your comments regarding Hell Night. As the grandmother of one of this year’s hellions, I can look at the participants in a different light than a property owner with pre-schoolers whose fence lost a few boards.
Tolerance can be, as you so aptly put it, a slippery slope but if you know the participants as you have known their predecessors over many years, it is somewhat easier.
I have some respect for the parents who combined their resources to maintain control and to keep kids safe regardless of their consumption of alcohol. Those parents who provided good food and utilized the cellular network to keep a close eye on the hellions were not condoning but tolerating in order to keep each child safe.
I am disappointed in the few who vandalized. I would like to think they regret it deeply.
I am disappointed in those who seize the opportunity of social media to label each student a malicious property-destroying vandal. I would much rather find the guy/girl with the spray can who vandalizes a memorial bench in Lions Park routinely as an expression of their “coming of age” in our society and enlighten them about the community they share.
Sidnee Williams
