How can you equate funding for Seniors Plus, the YWCA, AWAP and the Sexual Assault Crisis Center with the warm feeling I get when I’m crossing the bridge and those purple, yellow and red symbols of Auburn come into view (May 15)?
Sometimes it’s impossible to drive with the tears welling up in my eyes. There, in a nutshell, is my heritage. It’s why I’ve lived here for 50 years.
Imagine when people from the overflowing Hilton Hotel go walking down the street and see what being a citizen of Auburn really means!
My friend Chip said that since the colors aren’t school colors or colors of the American flag he’s confused as to their meaning. I just smile because he isn’t from around here.
So enough with the stupid bellyaching about Auburn giving money to the poor, hungry and abused.
Imagine the pride you and I will feel when the old couple comes in from the farm, and the old man looks up at the colors and says “A-yuh Martha. This here’s a city on the move.” And she replies “Thank God we saw it before we died, Earl.”
Anyone got a handkerchief?
Hats off to all the visionaries who are working to make Earl and Martha’s dreams come true!
Bill Giasson, Lewiston
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