Messages from people in surrounding towns

A Salem resident shared the following inspirational video...  a must to check out.  Restoring our natural resources will help restore us and peace.  A quote in the video recalls what a great leader once said - "The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation INCREASED... in value." - Teddy Roosevelt, from 'The New Nationalism' (1910), NWTR, XVII, p. 52 ....  he did not mean sustained or the same, but environmentally better, healthier, wealthier and more beautiful in life.



Messages received from surrounding towns-
"Hello and thank you for working hard against corporate and city ignorance and down right greed.  As a Salem resident, I am very concerned for the loss in Spring Pond Woods as well as what little else remains in this town and elsewhere.  Why we should have to fight against leaders and often friends and neighbors for the right to live with something as obvious as cleaner air and more trees I will never know.
I know a number of other Salemites who are ready and willing if you could provide some guidance as too what we do next. "  - Salem Resident


"Thanks for sending us all these photos, maps, etc. as you find them. There was a Cooper's Hawk in my neighbor's backyard the other day having a meal of a Dark-eyed Junco that it snagged from the birdfeeder in my yard. This is the first time I've seen that. We often do have red tailed hawks around here, but Cooper's and Sharp-shinned are usually hunting in the woods or woodland edge. Maybe it's because there is so much snow, it's hard for them to hunt. Birdfeeders make easy pickings!"  - Salem Resident


"As a planner whose childhood was spent in Salem, I am surprised to learn that Planned Unit Development is being used for the opposite of its intended purpose in the WalMart/Leow'es proposal. PUD is supposed to foster clustered development in order to use as little land as possible for development and to preserve environments such as the Spring Pond area." - Canadian resident (formally of Salem)

"I walked around Spring Pond and wished I had snowshoes on. The snow wasn't packed down in most places and I was walking up to my knees sometimes. I saw a red-headed woodpecker at the entrance of Spring Pond by the Peabody side.  I am glad the Item recognized advocates efforts and didn't insult them like the xxxxx paper." - Lynn Resident


"I saw a comment on the Lynn Daily Item article that singled you out personally.. That is always a great sign.. you are making a difference and people are taking note. The person that commented negatively is doing nothing positive for society at all."  - Peabody resident

"Feds sue Boston over clean water violation acts, http://www.clf.org/newsroom/clf-statement-clf-says-feds%E2%80%99-entry-into-boston-water-and-sewer-commission-case-underscores-need-for-major-commitment-to-improve-water-quality-in-boston/ "

"there is your bald eagle, but I guess wal-mart and lowes being closer
are more important than our national symbol!" - former Lynn and Salem resident

"Here's my response to the current situation with the Lowe's development. It's a poem I wrote a few years ago.
The Wait of Winter
You must shed your winter berries for the truth of spring flowers.
Bare the cold season of winter.
You must stand deep in the coldness of your lies; let your spirit die in pain for newness.
Create you dream of life, with all it's warmth, love, and trueness.
Let your heart live in this place.
It is here your new life begins and winter ends forever.
This is how your heart learns to live again and again.
Never dying to the coldness of life.
Always reaching for the warmth of truth.
Always knowing it's worth the wait of winter. "
            - Topsfield resident (formally of Lynn)

Thank you to all for writing.  There have been several messages received... to continue.

Here is what can be done to continue the fight:

• Write a letter of concern to your state leader of Peabody, Lynn, Salem or other surrounding community, regarding the Kennedy Development Group project and/ or DiBiasi Subdivision in Spring Pond Woods, Salem, and how it will affect your community.
• Appeals can be made by a 10-citizen group in Salem.  Email peace@springpondwoods.com for more info.
• Write letters of concern to the state.  Stay tuned.
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• Email peace@springpondwoods.com to subscribe to an Action List.
• Continue with petitions.  Hand-signing petition (found here) and invite others to sign online petition:  www.change.org/petitions/save_woods_of_salem
• Join facebook.com/SpringPondWoods and invite others.
• Share your news or letters here by emailing peace@springpondwoods.com
• Spread the news!

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