Something is seriously wrong with our community when a perfectly capable and willing volunteer is not allowed to keep up the landscaping on the premises of our library.

Since when did rules and regulations override common sense?

Are you kidding me? We have to put up with weeds, scorched plants, and cigarette butts when we go to our library because it’s against the “rules” to allow a volunteer to lend a hand to the overworked union gardeners?

I happen to be the daughter of an amazing woman who has made it her project to beautify our whole industrial block! Union or not, she has never been denied permission to plant a few bulbs here, hang a pot there.

To the contrary, thanks and compliments have been showered upon her and I feel proud to pull weeds at her side in front of a once unkempt building, when the employees have all gone home.

Sure, there has to be some kind of volunteer procedure so that you don’t have 10 different volunteers doing their own style of gardening in front of the same library, but to nip it in the bud completely, c’mon now.

Jenny Foster
Ballard