As Durango struggles to find a way obtain a site and establish a warming shelter for those unfortunate enough to lack shelter, listen to Durango’s police chief.
“It’s almost cruel to invite larger numbers of individuals to live in an outdoor environment when it gets cold,” Durango Police Chief Brice Current said in an interview. “I’ve seen way too many frozen bodies in my lifetime. I don’t ever want to see another one” (Herald, Jun. 4).
We are better than that, Durango. The page of volunteer organizations locally take up over a full page in the Herald.
We rally for highway trash pickup, racing against a train, cooking and gardening at Manna, running races on Thanksgiving, 4-H projects and our county fair, volunteering for the warming shelter last winter and thousands of other community efforts.
Let your representatives know that you believe we can manage a place of shelter when it’s below 15 degrees Fahrenheit for humans and their dogs. It seems like a minimum our Durango hearts could offer. No more frozen bodies for our police to see.
Lynne Murison
Durango
