To the editor:
Bert Nash, employee assistance programs, Hannah's House for unwed mothers, Women's Transitional House for battered women, Headquarters, Hearthstone House for alcoholic men, Lawrence Housing Authority, Pelathe Center, Project Acceptance, Independence Inc., Salvation Army, St. John's, Corpus Christi, Mustard Seed Fellowship, Catholic Community Services of Lawrence, Job Start-Supportive Employment, KU Psychological Clinic, KU Child and Family Services Clinic, Menninger, Veterans Outreach Clinic at Reed Group, Cornerstone Baptist, High Hope Love Center of the Apostle Father, St. Margaret's Episcopal, Unity Church, Community Living Opportunities, Calvary Chapel, Community Bible Church, Ninth St. Missionary Outreach, St. John's AME, St. Luke's AME, United Methodist, Central United Methodist, First Christian, First Baptist, First Presbyterian, Trinity Lutheran Church, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, United Way of Douglas County, Douglas County Legal Aid, DCCCA, ECKAN County Action Agency, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcohol Safety Action Project-Lawrence, Alcohol Abuse 24-Hour Addictive Services, KU Counseling and Psychological Services, SRS, Wheatland Church of Christ, Trinity Episcopal, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Community Drop In Center, LINK, Jubilee Cafe.
The above list may or may not include your affiliate group or church but with the 52 religious and social service groups mentioned above, there is something seriously wrong that AGAIN some more do-gooders come forward with yet another scheme to ask for shelters and detox centers. Please, enough is enough!
I hope the various board members of these churches and listed social service groups ask themselves just how effective their organizations are. It appears to me as I have listened in at different meetings and read news accounts of various proposals, that the time has come to STOP funding more and more of the same.
City commissioners and county commissioners need to start asking some very pointed and direct questions and stop handing out money every time someone who comes in and cries the loudest and longest to perpetuate their own existence or newfound scheme with little benefit to the majority, I repeat, majority, of residents and citizens of Lawrence and Douglas County.
David Holroyd,
Lawrence
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