Mark Fishaut News Today

The January 10th issue of the Journal included an excellent letter of opinion submitted by Mark Fishaut, titled “Moving forward with the Land Bank.” Mark noted the Town to Zylstra Lake Trail fiasco as reason for review of the entire LB operation. The January 24th issue of the Journal included three rebuttals. Jim Skoog wrote “The mysterious Zylstra Lake Trails fiasco has absolutely nothing to do with the Land Bank”. Cynthia Brast wrote “The mysterious Zylstra Lake T...

Submitted by San Juan County Hospital District 1

I write this letter in response to the recent letter by Mark Fishaut MD titled “Moving Forward with the Land Bank”. Dr. Fishaut, I am no longer on the Land Bank Commission but I was for fourteen years. In that fourteen years I have never seen you at a Land Bank meeting, so I question your position of knowledge about what the Land Bank does and how it does it. First of all, the “mysterious” Zylstra Lake trails fiasco has absolutely nothing to do with the Land Bank. You nee...

Following hard upon the “mysterious” Zylstra Lake trails fiasco, it is timely that review of the entire Land Bank operation has begun. However, it is of concern that the survey available to the public glosses over the most important issues. Goals and directions are important but are irrelevant if they miss the most essential matters:

Historically “going postal” has been a negative cliché to describe extreme worker decompensation under unreasonable duress.

An epidemic of fentanyl overdoses has been raging across North America for years. The waves of that epidemic are lapping at the shores of San Juan County.

Submitted by the League of Women Voters.

Submitted by the San Juan County Public Hospital District 1.

April 19 marks the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Thousands died over several weeks of fighting in what was left of the ghetto which was shelled and burned to the ground. Most of my then remaining relatives, including resistance fighters, perished against impossible odds.

A recent letter to the Journal regarding the Zylstra Lake boondoggle shows that even those of us who may have profoundly opposed views on many subjects can find common ground when our community has been taken for a ride. It is revealing as well that personal comments made on this issue have resulted in astonishingly frequent “attaboys” from all sorts of folks.