Letters to the Editor    Neighborly? Let’s make it personal
Further about your Aug. 20 editorial (“Neighborly way is best”),
being “neighborly” is as island neighborly does. And this has
got to get more close and personal.  Which grocery checkers
report cereal and cat food as someone’s only monthly purchases?
How many local home loans are being rejected? Has anyone been
invited to a Wing Point rent party yet? Invited someone next
door over in a power outage?  Ever sign up at the clinic to take
a car-less patient to get medication refills? Buy two books and
give one to the library or an anonymous book club shut in? Pick
up someone at the bus stop or give a stranger a ride home from
the ferry? Sponsor a free tax relief appeal workshop like our
Bainbridge realtors did a few years ago. Or provide reduced rate
therapy and professional advice like some of our counselors
still do. As a respite, baby-sit for free a single parent’s
children?  Or initiate one affordable-housing unit start
yourself, even as City Hall h