Jobs are More Important than Recreation

SEELEY LAKE - I currently live 100 yards from the Seeley Lake airport and a quarter mile from Cottonwood Lakes Road. I know a little bit about gravel pits.

 As a child, I lived with my parents and my three siblings at a gravel pit in Western Montana. My Dad was employed as a crusher operator and he only had to walk 100 yards from our camper to the crusher. The owner was gracious enough to let us live there for a year. 

My siblings and I loved it, the gravel pit on one side and the Flathead River on the other side of our camper. My Mom never once complained. She was thankful Dad had a job.

The sound of industry is music to my ears knowing the community is being clothed and fed. I was raised, and still believe, that jobs are more important than recreation.

I believe no one should have a say in what someone does with their private property. This is still America.

Mr. Lewis will be providing not only for his family, but others as well.