Are we celebrating air pollution. It will certainly look like it. I am all for public art. I find this particular project (Kenmore Beautification Project to paint silos in the industrial park on Kenmore’s waterfront) inappropriate and offensive. A slap in the face to all who experience, daily, the health consequences and who all who are suffering because of this industry and it irresponsible refusal to allow monitoring of the fumes and the air that it huffs and puffs into our lungs daily, in a residential city. Leave it as it is.

All need to be reminded of the status quo we are fighting to correct in Kenmore, not the cover up of one of it’s cancerous warts. Please pass this on, and contact the city by letter, or in person, in opposition to this shameful affront. A contest for ideas, at a city sponsored, “For the Love of Kenmore” meeting, turned into an uninformed, unwitting, game “painting of the cement plant” won the prize. Now the city clearly once again is supporting and lobbying for this abuser to be hiding behind a pretty picture.

This action does not represent the community of Kenmore as a whole, nor was the community invited or allowed to vote on this, only the fifty to sixty (an exaggeration) in attendance at the Kenmore pep rally, were given the ideas to choose from.

This one seemed the most farcical and was not vetted seriously by any in attendance or the citizens who will have to look at it as they cough and wheeze every day.

Janet Hays, Kenmore