COMMISSIONER: Not a friend of the people

Recently I went to the East Side District Road Department office. I talked to the road foreman about the snowplow driver pushing snow down Myers Hill Road and across Wolf Lodge Creek Road, into a hill next to my mother-in-law's driveway, blocking her view of traffic and causing a very life-threatening situation. He said that they will continue pushing the snow against the bank, even though there is an open field across the road where they could push it without causing any problems at all.

I called Dick Edinger, who is the commissioner for the East Side District. He came out with the road foreman and looked the situation over. He told me that, "If my mother-in-law couldn't see over it, then she should buy a pick-up truck." Real concern for human life, don't you think?

In 2008 they piled so much snow against that bank that they had the whole northbound lane completely blocked off. Don't take my word for it; just ask anyone who lives out here.

I think it's time for Mr. Edinger to retire and come election time, I intend to do my part to help to do just that. I think we need a new road foreman too. All he does is sit in his office or drive around in his fancy pickup trying to look important.

When Ken Dingman was road foreman he was out early in the morning with his chain saw cutting downed trees that had fallen across the road after a storm. If a tree falls across the road now, you have to cut it up and move it off the road yourself.

I think it's time for a few changes. What do you think?

WENDALL R. COOPER

Coeur d'Alene