Dear editor,

It is quite obvious and logical that the old hospital should be used for medical purposes to benefit a local community. It was designed and built as a hospital.

Local residents have been cared for in the past: my mother-in-law who lived on Victoria, a friend who lived on Johnson. Treatments may have been limited, but the care was not.

At the last grab for a commercial use, Margarita Howe and her group were very active and vocal in their efforts to “save our sick.” Unfortunately, it was only partially successful.

The large modern hospital beds are blocked by elderly patients who have nowhere else to go.

Let’s use the old hospital as a residence for the people who are unwanted in modern hospital care.

Cynthia Rand
NOTL