To the editor:

Halloween is a time for fun, not to take other people’s possessions. I want to see what this community is willing to live with. This didn’t affect just my family; at least two other houses in the Park Hill Neighborhood were vandalized, and I am sure many more across town. This wasn’t high school pranks, it was college-age kids.

Sure, start out your post-high school years as thieves. Everyone who went to the trouble to make the holiday spooky and enjoyable for others had their decorations taken or destroyed. Speak up!!!! Let’s not be willing to live in fear that if we decorate it will be stolen.

Life without joy and the willingness to help others however we can is not a life that matters. I realize it is just stuff. I still feel that all the decent people in this community that go to the trouble to decorate should save their time and money. Be a hero and turn in the people responsible. Little crimes turn into bigger crimes, it’s been proven over and over. Let’s all stop this trend of thefts and crime by not putting up with it.

Marsha Pomes,

Lawrence