Issues with the marina still ongoing

To The Eagle:

Over 26 years I have relied on the Elochoman Marina to take my showers. Eighteen of those years I lived on my boat at the marina, until the staff members collaborated with a pike minnow fisherman falsely accusing me of threatening to shoot him. I'm guilty of shooting a picture of his boat that I sold him earlier. The marina wanted to get rid of me because I called the sheriff when drunken parties went on all times of the night.

After 18 years, they evicted me from the marina. Last time I was accused of shooting anyone was in the south Pacific during World War II as a Navy gunner.

The marina closed the showers for over a week to paint the floors. Any competent person could have painted them in two hours. Any good floor paint will dry overnight. If nothing else, add ground walnut shells.

The problem is they used high gloss paint. I called the marina and said they had a very dangerous situation with the floors being slippery. Their reply was that the paint was recommended for shower floors. I told that person to wet their hands and slide them on the floor, now add soapy water to your hand and see what happens. He wanted to argue about the paint. I gave up.

I didn't know the port commission had changed hands. I mistakenly drove to Leroy Burns' home and complained. He said he no longer was a commissioner. He said Quigley was the new commissioner. I called the only Quigley in the phone book on Beaver Road; a gal had just arrived home and was upset I had called her and didn't know what I was talking about.

Oh! Did I forget to mention after two years, the same one quarter at a time coin boxes have not been repaired? One must step from the shower, soap in one's eyes, fumble around, to find another quarter, try to find the slot to resume taking said shower. They did do something new; they removed the sign warning of only one quarter at a time.

I'm disabled and the only shower with rails to hold onto is kept locked, the disabled shower.

Robert T. Platter

Cathlamet