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To the Editor

I'm Aileen Warren. You know my thoughts and feelings about the proposed slaughter house plan to purchase Port ground and build on Cameron Street. I am completely opposed to this type of facility being built within city limits.

I want Michelle's business plan to succeed, but not inside city boundaries.

Based on my experience at the December 14 Port meeting, where you looked me in the eye, told me my input didn't matter and you were going ahead with the project, I am going to call a spade a spade.

Shame on you, Port Commissioners, for your lack of common sense! Less than a year ago, you heard and denied pleas from a broad scope of community leaders who were advocating construction and creation of a child care center to ease the crisis of finding safe, reliable daycare here in Dayton.

I know young single mothers who want to be employed, but cannot take jobs because there is nowhere for their children to be while they are at work. A child care facility would have allowed a substantial number of individuals in our town to come back into the workplace! And it would have been a number far greater than the new jobs a slaughter house would create.

Shame on you, Commissioners, for not being able to see the forest for the trees! If businesses are closing because they can't find workers, why play your cards so you will support this trend?? The child care facility ripple effect would have had an incredibly far more positive effect in our community than will the slaughter house.

Common sense (of which there appears to be a severe deficit here) makes it a no-brainer as to which would be the right choice for you to make. It is frustrating and eye-opening just how deeply your biases are affecting your commissioner job, to which you pledged to make choices in the best interests of our community.

Your determination to establish the slaughterhouse within city limits is **NOT** in the best interests of our town or her citizens. Come back to reality and make choices that will promote and enhance our beautiful town instead of pushing her even closer to the edge of crisis.

Aileen Warren

Dayton, Wash.