Dear Kendrick City Council,
We the undersigned do hereby respectfully request you to preserve and restore the Kendrick Depot located in your city.
Please find enclosed/attached our petition with signatures and comments with reference to and support for preserving the Kendrick Depot.
It is an old repeated adage that we often don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Kendrick's legacy and that of yourselves will be ill-famed should you be successful in accomplishing your goal of destroying the Kendrick Depot.
Fairness, equity and democracy demand that you at least consider and contemplate the voice of we the majority and there can be no question to any reasonable mind that all those that desire to destroy this depot are in a very small minority. For every one silent, passive supporter you claim we can easily produce ten-twenty that will give a voice, a signature and/or a face to their opinion. In matters such as these, those who don't want to stand up and be counted - shouldn't. [This is why our wise legislators mandated that issues such as this be voted upon by WE THE PEOPLE.]
Although you have been confronted with the reason, logic and commonsense of preserving the Kendrick Depot, you have decided for nefarious reasons to do the opposite. If we were to agree with your stated logic then we would not have many of the national historical landmarks that exists now all over this great country of ours.
You are selling the City of Kendrick's birthright for $50.00 and you should be ashamed. The Depot has survived flood and fire only to be possibly soon destroyed by your short terms in office.
If you are successful in destroying this historic treasure, the spot will forever remain as a monument to your administration's lack of vision, values, and voter support.
We still have faith in the goodness of humanity and hope that you will reconsider your position and best serve the interests of the majority of Kendrick citizens who you were appointed and elected respectfully to represent.
The petition website as well as the "Save the Depot" blog will forever remain in cyberspace and when someone goes to search for "Kendrick, Idaho" or "Kendrick Depot" - they will read about our efforts here to convince you to do what is right and in the best interest of ALL.
"Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." - Proverbs 22:28
"Monuments immortalize our heroes, celebrate our accomplishments, and mourn our losses. Whether in a public park, private cemetery, or city square, these sculptures of stone and steel reflect the moral, cultural, and social makeup of their surroundings. Just as the Column of Trajan still stands in Rome and as the fall of the Soviet Union brought about the razing of hundreds of statues, some monuments stand as permanent testimony to the accomplishments of a nation or an individual while others topple at the swing of the pendulum that is public opinion." - Donald M. Reynolds, Author of "REMOVE NOT THE ANCIENT LANDMARK"
We sincerely hope that you will reconsider and SAVE THE DEPOT!
Thank you for your time and consideration regarding this very important and historically significant matter.