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Show ' Farmington should relinquish county seat or cooperate Utah, a now dead and stagnant museum mu-seum area, it's time to speak up. However, if you want to show the state what you and Davis County can become, you have the opportunity oppor-tunity now, in this center which can and promises to become a shining example for the West. I truly believe the people I heard last night were not representative of Farmington nor of Davis County as a whole. I believe the real Farmington Farm-ington has a heart, a heart big enough to love its own and the rest of the county as it has in the past. I would invite those who live in Farmington, who believe this to make their presence known by speaking out for their community and this worthy endeavor. I would invite them to speak out for their Christian beliefs and their pioneer heritage of hearty, caring people by flooding their planning commission with letters of support for the Family Fami-ly Resource Center. Pat Hartman Bountiful Dear Editor Following is an open letter to the Farmington Planning Commission and other communities in Davis County. Gentlemen: Last night I walked into your Farmington Planning Commission meeting and couldn't believe my ears. I heard a community that was unwilling to care for its own or anybody else's youth, preferring to export their problems elsewhere. I heard a community proud to be the county seat but unwilling to take the responsibilities of that honor. Is this the community I think I know and love? You people weren't being asked to take in criminals or risk your health as the "Good Samaritan did. (He was a traveler passing through a community that refused to help one of its own.) You were only being asked to allow a time-out place where parents could shelter their youth when communication in the home breaks down, a haven, a safe place from the dangers of today's world, a community meeting and resource center, a positive, informative center for learning how to live, one with another. "For as ye have done it unto the least of these my children, ye have also done it unto me." Gentlemen, Farmington is at a crossroads. The people of Farmington Farm-ington and the people of Davis County are on trial to determine whether they can pull together as a people for positive good or be known as a community or a county divided against itself. When Farmington became the county seat, it pledged to support the whole county in its needs; otherwise another county seat would have been more appropriate. If Farmington is having second thoughts and would rather become like Fremont, the old capital of |
