Don't ignore our town artistic roots

I was sorry to read in last week’s Weekly News concerning the Jenson property (“Residents engage,” May 1) that there was only minimal interest in housing. What worries me is that without diversity La Conner wouldn’t be the rich connection community it is today. People who have received a hand up from supporters of the arts and the appreciation of that diversity. Creative, brilliant people that gave La Conner its diversity and flavor.

La Conner is built on the history of our heroes: People who lived on Pull and Be Damned, Fishtown, the marsh. People who lived in shacks without power or running water. People who worked in town, opened book stores, sewed dolls, sold flowers, wrote poetry, painted.

All around us are people living among us that without the helping hand of gifted-housing, property and financial aid would be heroes somewhere else!

Please don’t waste endless time in contentious debate! So many missed opportunities lead to exhausted participants with an opening for developers.

Don’t capitulate to an ethos of caution. Jump in there, and life in La Conner might get interesting again.

Marianne Meyer

Mount Vernon