{"id":585,"date":"2021-09-21T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/?p=585"},"modified":"2021-09-21T21:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:56:43","slug":"community-letters-regarding-the-stonewall-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/community-letters-regarding-the-stonewall-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Letters regarding the Stonewall building."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dear Jasper City Council and concerned citizens,<\/span><\/p>

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As a resident of the Twin Cities, you may not care too much about what I have to say.\u00a0 I seem far removed from Jasper — and it\u2019s true that I have to travel four hours to get there.\u00a0 But like many people, Jasper is as much a part of me as my blood and my breath.\u00a0 I grew up spending holidays and long summer weeks here, visiting my grandparents, the late Norris and Mavis Larson.\u00a0 And now, I come to visit my dad, Randy.<\/span><\/p>

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To me, Jasper has been beautiful.\u00a0 It\u2019s a place I want to come to for the history, for the vibe of a small town, and for the small businesses.\u00a0 But let me be clear about one thing — the architecture is something that sets Jasper apart.\u00a0 Any town can have a bar.\u00a0 Any town can have a restaurant, or a museum.\u00a0 But Jasper has Sioux quartzite and over 100 years of history behind these buildings.\u00a0 If you believe in supporting this town\u2019s economy and keeping it a beautiful place that people will want to live in and visit, then you cannot simply waste money on tearing down these historic structures when they can be rehabilitated, because at the same time you are scrapping this beautiful town\u2019s identity.<\/span><\/p>

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It can seem overwhelming to try to save a building when it has a crumbling facade, but I urge not only the city council, but also the citizens of Jasper, to learn more from Reclaim Community, which has done an enormous amount of research and work into getting funds and grants to preserve Bauman Hall and Jasper High School.\u00a0 They can also save the Stonewall Bar building — it is possible; it is feasible; it is inevitable if you give them a chance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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I\u2019ll leave you with a parting plea.\u00a0 Do not let the mayor persuade you to demolish these buildings.\u00a0 Do not let these discussions happen behind closed doors.\u00a0 My family had a long history with the Jasper Lanes — it was in our family for more than twenty years — and we did not get a chance to save that business.\u00a0 It was devastating when it was torn down.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Do not let that happen to other businesses and buildings here.\u00a0 Things cannot happen behind closed doors anymore.\u00a0 You have our attention, and we are not backing down.<\/span><\/p>

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Thank you for your time.<\/span><\/p>

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-Emma Larson<\/span><\/p>




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Dear Jasper City Council and concerned citizens, \u00a0 As a resident of the Twin Cities, you may not care too much about what I have to say.\u00a0 I seem far removed from Jasper — and it\u2019s true that I have to travel four hours to get there.\u00a0 But like many people, Jasper is as much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimcommunity.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}