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Letter to the Editor: Ribbon Cutting Time in Kewaunee County

 

On July 29 at 12:30 pm, Governor Scott Walker will be in Kewaunee County and will be a featured speaker at the ribbon-cutting ceremony on behalf of the Kewaunee Harbor Restoration Project groundbreaking event.

This project is a timely project that was funded by taxpayer dollars to the amount of $4.2 million.

This will repair the existing seawall and create a boardwalk from Harbor Park to the pier leading to the lighthouse. This is a worthy project that will hopefully entice more tourists to beautiful Kewaunee County.

This project leads many citizens to ask this question: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if tourists and local citizens alike would now experience a Kewaunee River that is not on the EPA’s impaired river category? Imagine a clean river that again supports a world-class sport fishery like the Kewaunee River I remember from the days of my youth in West Kewaunee Township! Now with that image in your mind, imagine if the East Twin River and the Ahnapee Rivers were also removed from the EPA’s impaired rivers list and again became nationally recognized sport fishing sites! Just imagine what a ribbon-cutting ceremony that would be!

This achievement would bring back wonderful fishing memories that I and many others personally experienced from the days of our youth in Kewaunee County! Back in the days of the late 1940s and 1950s, friends and family would go come together to enjoy fishing trips throughout Kewaunee County. What lasting joys and fond memories these excursions created.

Achieving three unimpaired rivers in Kewaunee County would be cause for a top priority “Blue Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony.”

Now imagine the absolute top priority for our county! Clean, safe drinking water in our wells so all Kewaunee County citizens can again feel that their health, welfare and safety is the foremost priority in their elected representatives minds and that these representatives demonstrate by act and deed that they comprehend the true meaning of democracy!

Of course to achieve all these goals, you need elected officials that fight for your rights and listen to you rather than ignore you! Our present representatives clearly believe that if they ignore a growing problem like water pollution it will just go away.

Remember these top priorities when in the voting booth. Think locally and vote locally for a person you can trust, respect and who has a proven record of fighting for you and your rights and who understands that Democracy means: of the people, by the people and for the people!

Such a person is Lynn Utesch who will listen and fight for you and Clean Water and Clean Government. Vote for Lynn Utesch Nov. 8 for your assemblyman in District One.

William Iwen

Town of Pierce, Kewaunee County

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