Priorities must be chosen carefully

To The Eagle:

I tried for two days to contact Pat Reese to tell her how much I enjoyed her response letter to The Eagle and how surprised I was that a nonresident of the town of Cathlamet felt that the town government was more important than the emergency medical services and fire department. Unless, of course, I misread her letter and/or she misread mine.

Ms. Reese did raise an interesting point about the "county seat." Did she know that Cathlamet was the territorial (1870s) and state (1889) "county seat" of Wahkiakum County before it existed? I would not worry about the future; I only asked which was more important to people, the EMS and fire department or the town government?

Of course, as pointed out by Mike Mouliot and others, instead of doing away with the town, it could more simply be done by doing away with one or some of the officials currently in office. Perhaps that what was Ms. Reese was alluding to?

George F. Hanigan

Cathlamet