It seems the school bond has passed this time so we’ll be rebuilding Wilkes School. In the debate leading up to the first unsuccessful bond issue, I was taken by the Review letter from the gentleman who attended school in a 13th-century building, survived the experience, and even managed to eke out an education. It rankles me to be asked to replace a 50-year-old building.

But apparently the experts say it is the most economic course. I must defer to those who are in such technical matters. But I have a modest citizen request.

Bainbridge being Bainbridge, I’m sure the new school will be green this, recycled that, and sustainable the other. All well and good I’m sure. But I would like to propose we set out to build something that is sustainable in the original sense of the word.

The joke T-shirt says “50 isn’t old … if you’re a tree”. Well, 50 certainly isn’t old if you’re a masonry building! Please let us set out to construct something that will still have considerable utility remaining after a mere half century.

Cebe Wallace

Eagledale