Dawn Wright is understandably upset that someone is intruding onto her patch.
As Chairwoman of the Honeypot Community Group, she chose to write to the Evening Mail yesterday.
I choose to give this paper a wide berth!
She implied that I was "telling the locals what they want" and spreading confusing and negative information.
A few points.
She was the first to receive my leaflet, the night before they were delivered to selected houses - ones that I had visited before and where there was evidence of children in the house.
The information in the leaflet was based on many discussions that I had had with some fifteen to twenty parents in the area . It reflected what the locals appeared to be asking for. There is no doubt that skateboarding rates high on the agenda of many boys - I'm not saying that it rates higher or less than ball sports.
I got it wrong: I was shocked to find that the £50,000 on offer came with strings attached - according to Simon Hughes of SLDC - it had to be spent on a MUGA. How this happened in the first place is of concern to me and I hope to discover this eventually.
When Simon Hughes talks about a 'consultation' about the MUGA, I would have thought the phrase 'provide information' would be more appropriate.
I have already told Dawn Wright that I am eager to learn of her group's plans for the area and will continue to talk with all those interested as I make my way slowly door-to-door through the area!
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Some people mistakenly think that I am new to the area, whereas I led the young people's club, Pathfinders, along with Arthur James who lived in the Weint. We were based at the old corrugated St Jude's with the Curate Rev Barnett, back in 1963 . Some of these young people came from the Honeypot, but mostly from Croftlands. A lot will now be grandparents in their sixties and included Malcolm Tyson and Dave Miller of Town Mayor fame.
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