Letters to the editor

Kudos to the MSB School District

To the Editor:

Kudos to the MSB School District for proposing changes to the Student dress code. Teachers and Staff should be made to lead by example and be held to the same dress codes as the students.

K. Darlene Langill,

Wasilla

A sad visit to the Pioneer Cemetery

To the editor:

I want to share my sad visit to the Pioneer Cemetery on Memorial Day Saturday.

After losing my daughter to an overdose six years ago, I've wanted to keep her memory alive by taking care of her resting place here in Palmer.

Around Memorial Day every year my son and I prepare her grave for the summer, we call it Her Garden. This year we removed the small white rocks there to make room for some fresh soil and flowers.

On Memorial Saturday we returned, ready to finish the garden. But someone had rearranged the grave for us. The little clay angel had been removed and it was lying on the grass. A tire mark was left over the plot, stopping less than twelve

inches from her beautiful stone and the grass at the end of the grave was pushed into a small heap.

Needless to say I was upset for the disrespect displayed there. Upset enough to find a phone number for the cemetery and to make a call. I asked to speak with the caretaker and the person identified himself as the manager, although no

name given.

After I explained what had happened and I'm sure he could hear how upset I was, he laughed and said there's just not enough room always to maneuver the working vehicles around the graves!

I was appalled he could find no words of apology in his vocabulary. I told him I'm upset enough to file a complaint and his reply was

"You do what you have to do ma'am". This ended our call.

We then took the time to level the ground and turf in order to finish what we had come for.

Leaving the cemetery I had two questions on my mind. Would the workers have corrected the damage and would the manager have shown some respect, had my daughter been one of the heroes we honor on Memorial Day? My daughter is

just as dear to me and deserves the same respect.

Kaarina Stamm,

Wasilla