WOODRIDGE SCHOOLS AND THE PARK, A LOVE AFFAIR?
Linda Ocepek, Principal of the Woodridge Middle School, said in a letter to the West Side Leader in the May 6 issue that the Cuyahoga Valley National Park would be highlighted in the school's annual Celebration of Learning May 14.
She also commented that the school is sponsoring an acre in the park's Park Share Program, and that officials of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association would be judging the school's photography contest.
Perhaps next year, Linda, you will consider honoring the 400 families that were forced to leave their homes in our valley to remove the "visual pollution" that the park felt these homes constituted.
The Woodridge School District lost a lot of potential students as a result of the park, not to mention the tax monies it lost when the park took 80 percent of Boston Township's tax base.
The few of us that survive may have to live with the park, but we don't rejoice when our own school district celebrates the park.
| Marty and Marilyn Griffith |