To the editor:

I have recently read several letters to the Public Forum, and I am ashamed that such false statements were made by fellow Lawrence citizens concerning the situation the Centennial Neighborhood finds itself in.

That neighborhood has taxpayers that have every right to stand up to protect their peace and quiet from bands playing, people screaming, lights coming through their windows and additional evening parking in front of their homes causing traffic hazards. (They have enough of that during school daytime hours.)

What kind of idiotic reasoning is it that “the kids” will be suffering by the lawsuit? Why does each school need an athletic field at its location when for many decades they both shared a field with Haskell Indian Nations University? A new athletic field at the Free State location is fine as it has enough land where it will not damage that neighborhood. It could be called Lawrence Schools Athletic Field or Schools of Lawrence Athletic Field. (We can’t favor the name of either school.)

This is no time to build a needless athletic field at Lawrence High School. Don’t we understand the economic condition our country is in?

We all should wonder who are those trying to push this Lawrence High School construction on us taxpayers, especially the Centennial neighbors.

I, and others, have experienced fighting for our neighbors back in 1978 when they tried to build condominiums in the Alvamar golf course, and we stopped it.

Sam V. Dixon,
Lawrence