To the Editor, Citizens of Allamakee County, and the Board of Supervisors:
Allamakee County is a wonderful place with ample resources for our agricultural and tourism/recreation industries and we are all very blessed to live in such a place. It seems to me, however, that there has become an “Us vs. Them” mentality between these two vital groups. The past, present and future of Allamakee County economically is both agriculture and tourism/recreation, and not just one or the other.
That being said, I believe we need to work together as a community of concerned citizens to make both of these industries succeed. We need to be a “both/and” people and not an “either/or” community where we come to resent, torpedo or undermine the futures of our community. We can disagree, we can debate, but we must not come to hate or belittle those we do not agree with.