Re: The Sale of Alcohol on Fairways at Mount Hood Golf Course - A Bad Idea
Soxboy
With all due respect, no neighbor anywhere - not just Melrose - ever wants anything to change in their neighborhood. That's the definition of NIMBY, right?
As for somehow morally eroding our youth, that's been Melrose's MO for opposing fun roughly ever since it incorporated.
Not that it's prescient, but I would argue that Melrose youth already drink more alcohol in that park than any golfing crowd ever could!
And, while I'm here, a couple of isolated underage servings during the first Obama administration, years ago, seems like a stretch as far as not allowing a drink cart.
People just want to enjoy a cold beer while they play, it's not an assault upon property rights, morality, human decency, or anything else. Just a beer while we play.
Sorry, Soxboy, but you are way off base here! Anytime a situation is created where alcohol consumption is encourage or condoned - more drinking will occur - it is like decriminalizing drugs - once this is done - drug use increases - just a fact of life - human nature. And considering a drinking problem we have in Melrose - this is not a good thing - a terrible message to send to our kids also. Since you don't live near Mount Hood or have a family with young kids who have to deal with drunkenness and speeding up at Mount Hood.