RiverEyes sez: “problem we have is that the land is owned by lakeland… and none of us are lakeland residents.”
Wrong. This is in LAKELAND SHORES–different city than Lakeland. Lakeland already has given up its public beach on the St. Croix to the couple living next door, Colin & Cindy Thorpe. Although the Lakeland Beach has been cleaned up, it’s still closed. And YOU, the taxpayers, have footed the $100,000-$200,000 bill for this mess even though the MPCA KNOWS who dumped it there–the Thorpes–but refuses to go after them. So here we’ve lost one public access in Lakeland already and the city of Lakeland Shores proposes to give away another public access to its wealthy citizens the Jarvis’s. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever eat at the Afton House or Catfish Saloon again–about as soon as I buy another pair of Red Wing boots!. How many more public accesses can the Croix afford to lose to rich monkeybutts like the Thorpes and the Jarvis’s??? How many more rich monkeybutts like Red Wing Shoes’ Sleazy Sweasy will try to close off access to the unwashed masses like us? Talk about class warfare, people, this is it–and YOU are on the losing end.