Council should consider bigger picture

Dear Editor:

The theme of the December 27 City Council discussion about the Parks and Rec Committee and the preservation or demolishing of the Fairground’s grandstands seems to be spiraling down to a silo view of Waitsburg events and continuing program of work.

We have an event, Waitsburg Celebration Days, that has been successfully implemented and been a benefit to promoting Waitsburg and Waitsburg businesses that seems to be overlooked in a determination to save the grandstands.

Waitsburg Celebration Days is utilized as a promotional tool year round for the benefit of Waitsburg. Waitsburg no...