To the Editor:
After your first 2016 Jewel references to College Hill’s dependence on youth, it was appropriate that young Royce Wiggin represented your staff as the only occupant at the full-house press table at another marathon evening meeting on Jan. 21.
The support of all of you in the Salado news office, usually out in the Village is important to progress which lengthy complaints obscure. Thank you for area-wide, informative coverage, my favorite source.
Before the Jan. 21 meeting, Sanctuary, which will become part of Salado, led by a family at home among us for several generations of dreams (to leave it better than they found it), passed a trust test with our principled leaders in charge, by withdrawing encroachment on historic land. If no one told them, the East 7.94 acres of Salado College Park, originally named Historic, still looks as though the Indians haven’t found it yet because they would have cleared it, as indeed the giver Robertson had in his lifetime. As immediate Past President of Robertson Colony-Salado College Foundation (retired 2014), I understand that clearance gifts for financing that work ceased, but the amount remaining for that essential work, at donors’ request, remains frozen, a possibility for 501(c)3 donations.
My eternal thanks is heartfelt for the willingness of my colleagues to match two important name donors who felt keenly for safety, health, recreation and attractiveness deserved by area residents and tourists. Thanks also to the local youth for allowing us to claim them as Salado College Park Eagles to become Historic, but currently volunteers and hosts displaying their pride for the visitors they attract as excited young people moving among their home history.
We had also accepted with contract the lowest of three bidders, Salado employs at his request to add to the beauty of the Village, Wounded Warrior Will Dankert to unfreeze Clearance funds when West Park volunteers can turn East again. The “Fire at Will” Company was acquiring heavy equipment and enlisting his own buddies to perhaps push big, discarded rocks from anticipated play and picnic areas into ravines with bridge over them and then moving others toward Northeast fences awaiting repairs and the attachment of Scout Allen Sirois’ East Gate at the accessible roads.
The decades-old solid stone fence still catches soil after rains to be returned uphill after removal of unattractive, unhealthful growth to be replace by natives trees and pocket gardens designed by the talented Susan Terry of Keep Salado Beautiful. This 7.94 acre Salado Parks needs more community input to become the unique Texas Park and to continue in broader ways to be the unique center of organized education planned by E.S.C.Robertson with Masonic friends and others 150 years ago.
The Texas Motto Friendship as old as Robertson Colony, can be exhibited in an informative, instructive manner and the newer Texas litter slogan of Don’t Mess With Texas might be placed on colorful waste boxes.
To keep visitors in the area longer, the nearby Gault site will also signage in Salado Park.
Again, with gratitude all around.
Doris Kemp
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