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Pickleball? Lakes? Council meeting highlights.
To the editor:
Councilman: "Due to the urgency of citizens to add pickleball courts." Urgency? Last meeting, the woeful pickleballers lamented, "We've been waiting 15 years." Now it is "urgent"?
Pickleballers if you are "impoverished", I'm sorry, please excuse me. If not, build your own, rent SMEC (Southern Minnesota Educational Campus), dual-purpose courts. Risk your own time, effort and money, not ours.
Council, did you ask neighbors, friends and relatives? Fairmont, "The City of Lakes" or pickleball? What did they pick? Did you ask?
Building inspectors vs Citizens. Ck 8.11.25 Sentinel and Council replays.
Ever hear builders don't want to build here? Anyone express difficulty, hoops, rigidity, or blockage? It's legendary. Stop pretending you don't know why.
Kawecki, after a parade of citizens expressed the above, "We need to do a study to see if there's a problem."
Council: "Pre-project meetings might help, plus more in writing." More manuals, regulations, red tape?
City administrator: "Investigating two more part-time inspectors!" What? Early 1970s, inspector Rose almost lost Bradley and Weigh-Tronix with duplicitous hurdles.
Mayor Donnelly: "Get outta the way!" and things blossomed.
How about an inspector that knows construction, wants to help us build, wants to fix stuff and can handle reviews.
Lakes
As a kid, swimmers jammed Gomsrud and Ward's "Festival of Lakes", hydroplane races, water ski shows, stunt cars, bicycle marathons. Celebrating our "Chain of Lakes."
Now, I hear, I won't...swim in it, let my dog in it, ya the water we drink. How do like it?
Edward Deming's CNEI (Continual Never-Ending Improvement) is a credo, a lifestyle, a habit, a worthy and teachable life-long mission. (Google Detroit and Deming)
A friend has a shirt I love, "Do Better." I don't want to embarrass him, so I'll only use his initials, Tommy Hilpipre. Thanks, T, we can do better, we can all do better, let's ask for better, it is our health.
It is our health, our lakes and our city's economic health. Nanobubbles now, please tell the city "oxygen in lakes is healthy."
Get together, neighbor to neighbor, over the fence, at coffee or church, what is important? What do you want? What do your kids tell you about the lakes? It is up to us and for the future.
Gregg Paulson
Fairmont