To the editor

We have a new hospital because of people working hard for the vote to fund our new hospital in Moffat County at voting time.

It was a successful venture, and the fruit of that work is now, for all intents and purposes, complete with the building phase.

I find it sad that the administration for the hospital that worked so hard for our vote for the new hospital could only find one day for four hours for the voters to see their new hospital, whether they approved of it or not.

We work in a small community that has a lot of shift workers who were not able to walk through the building because of work schedules in the middle of the day, or the fact that the tour was on Halloween.

So what?

There may have been some time constraints for the opening with parties for those who donated $25,000 or more, which I think is a good thing; the vendors who supplied, which I think is good, or those who constructed it, which I also think is good.

Yet those whose houses and businesses went up a large percentage for their mill levy assessments had only a short, four-hour hurry up look on one day? We will have spent millions throughout the years and just four hours to look on one strange holiday?

Was there really any real consideration for those who work who may have liked to have seen where their money is spent?

I guess not very many people really wanted to see their investment since looking at the photo on the front page of our paper showed a long line.

All the reasons and constraints in the world can be supplied, but there wasn't a chance for others and we didn't have a vote in this situation. I guess we'll have to wait another 50 years.

Mark Parchman