I completely agree with and would like to reinforce the idea presented by George and Marge Earley in your Jan. 12 edition.

Hood River is facing a crisis. If Wal-Mart succeeds in their plan for a megastore the Hood River we love will never be the same. It's almost as big a threat to our way of life as the threat of complete destruction that is facing our fruit industry. Neither of these are the fault of the people of Hood River but the Wal-Mart crisis is the fault of our county commission. The majority of them have been negligent and as the Earleys have pointed out there have been many other recent ill-advised decisions that have hurt Hood River.