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<br />Mayor Kitty Piercy and Members of the City Council: <br />My name is Gabrielle Williams and I am an eighth grade student at <br />Prairie Mountain. As you all know there have been a couple of tragedies <br />over the years at Golden Garden Ponds. One of them would be my friend <br />of seven years, Nick Davis. This death has affected a numerous amount of <br />students at our school and definitely his family. <br />These ponds are not safe for anyone. They have all kinds of trash, <br />vegetation and water currents that most of the time aren't visible to the <br />visitor's eye. It is very important that something changes so that no one <br />has to go through loosing a friend or family member to the ponds again. <br />My class members and I plan to go to the ponds to plant trees and <br />flowers to draw the attention away from the thought of swimming. I would <br />also like to put signs around the ponds to let visitors know how deceiving <br />and dangerous they are. Many other students including myself hope to <br />see a memorial area to let people know that the Golden Garden Ponds <br />have taken lives. I would like to see a sandbox or a playground area so <br />that younger children aren't attracted to the water. I also hope to see a <br />barbecue pit so that parents would be more likely to spend time with their <br />kids there and make sure that they don't go near the water. <br /> <br />(j) <br />