Editor’s note: The following was addressed to the Bonney Lake mayor and City Council members and forwarded to The Courier-Herald for publication.

I am continually chastised because I don’t do any good for the city or the citizens of the city. Well, it’s high time the eight of you wake your little bodies up.

I would like to see the floor of the food bank fixed; now I got a song and dance from Mr. Leaf about moving the food bank when they find someplace to move it. In the meantime, the floor of the food bank could be fixed I’m sure at a reasonable cost.

Maintaining a building that belongs to the city should happen; they shouldn’t be allowed to die just because there are no pennies to maintain the building. That would be a good project for the city – after all, look what the city did for the Lions 4 Kids building. I didn’t see any hesitation to do that at any time.

Yet here is a building that is in need of repair and it’s an area that is used by many adult citizens in this city; this is a bad time for many and they need food. Close down the building and where would our citizens go?

Now back to the Dahlstrom family. For close to two years now this family – and it will continue with just me – has supported the food bank monetarily and with gifts of food. How many of you have spent over $600 a year giving to the food bank – not in time but in money and food? Well, the Ken Dahlstrom family has done that. We have asked for no recognition, we have not taken it off our income tax, we have given it free will because it’s our city and we want to support our city.

It was decided by Ken and I not to give our money outside of our city but to give within so that we can support our fellow citizens. We have given to the Giving Tree every year an enormous amount of support, not only in $$$s but in gifts for those kids. What have the eight of you done as private citizens? I’m sure whatever it would be, it would be plastered in the newspaper.

Before the director of the Lions 4 Kids went public, using her title to support against the charter, this family continually gave to the Lions 4 Kids, mostly in things that helped the teens. After her stunt Ken and I decided that since she used the Lions 4 Kids as a political tool we would no longer support it and haven’t.

When we were able we tried to make sure that we supported, in any way we could, the senior center, and it hasn’t stopped.

So all of you sit back on your royal haunches and remember this: Ken and Quinn Dahlstrom and now Quinn Dahlstrom will continue to support the Giving Tree and the food bank and when I can the senior center. It’s something this family decided to do and we will do until I die which I hope isn’t too soon – there are tons of people that need food.

I understand that Stew Bowen came to the council and requested $10,000 a year from the city and was denied that. Yet we give $35,000 to the Sumner rec program? And this city can feed every employee in the city at one time or another – and feed your faces and the commissioners’ faces – all of whom have jobs! Yet those that have no jobs because of this economical times get absolutely no help from this city; come on, you have to be kidding me! And you can’t even fix the building so the volunteers (not employees) can do their job of feeding our hungry? Come on, who in the hell is in charge of the vote of “no.”

I want the people of this city to know that the council refused to help the unemployed folks that need food, yet they help themselves to the food from our tax dollars. They won’t maintain the building. They won’t do anything for the public except take and take and take.

Quinn Dahlstrom

Bonney Lake