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<br />Mayor Kitty Piery and members ofthe City Council: <br /> <br /> <br />Hi my name is Kali Rescigno. I am an 8th grade student at Prairie Mountain School. I live in Eugene <br /> <br /> <br />Or. I am writing this letter to try to make the Golden Garden Ponds a safer place. In the past year there <br /> <br /> <br />have been several lives lost due to the nature of the ponds. <br /> <br /> <br />The point I want to make to you is that if the ponds are called a park then why don't we want to try and <br /> <br />make them look like a park. <br /> <br />In this last summer I lost 2 of my really good friends due to those ponds. Those aren't the only <br /> <br /> <br />people that have drowned there. All together there have been 4 boys that have drowned since 1998 and <br /> <br />even before that. So, why don't we try to make this place safer? There are kids that go there to ride <br /> <br /> <br />their bikes and we don't want anything to happen to them. We don't like to have people pass away. It's <br /> <br /> <br />never a good feeling. Let's put some effort into it and make this place as safe as we can! <br /> <br />The Golden Garden Ponds is called a park, so let's make it that way. We need to get easier access to <br /> <br /> <br />the ponds. By adding things to it like a playground, benches, sand, basketball courts, people would <br /> <br /> <br />have other things to do rather than be enticed by nasty water! You know, maybe if we were to clean it <br /> <br /> <br />up, they would look a lot nicer. Cleaning the inside of the ponds is most important because I know for <br /> <br />a fact there are at least cars, bowling balls, weeds, trash, tires and god knows what else. Let's clean all <br /> <br />that up! It may take time, but it will not be wasted; it will save a lot oflives, not only lives, but also <br />broken hearts. <br /> <br />I really hope you can help us out. It would make a really big impact on us to know we've been heard. <br /> <br />It will also make it a place where we can go and actually not have to look at the nasty water and trash <br /> <br />all over, and see what our loved ones passed away in. We can feel better knowing that we tried so hard <br /> <br />to make it so no one else will have an accident there again. Thank you for listening to what I have to <br /> <br />say I appreciate it. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />Kali Rescigno <br />