Letter to the editor: Shop local?

Nearly all of the handicapped parking is the heck and gone away from shopping spots. Crud, if I could walk from the spaces at the transportation center, I wouldn’t need a walker.

Shop the Farmer’s Market. Great parking across the street but then I would have to get down numerous steps — with a walker. Buy a flat of fruit and go up stairs — still with a walker. Sounds more like a Monty Python sketch to me.

Then there’s the Civic Auditorium; I think there are a couple of handicapped spots out front — good spots, if you get there in time. The rest are around back. Again, if I could walk that far…Concerts at St. Peter’s Landmark, go around back. . . .

And then there’s the latest wing of Mid-Columbia Medical Center. Beautiful. The parking up there is already cruddy. I can’t walk the distance to a Woman’s Place as it is. Add another 20 or 30 feet — it might as well be on the moon.

I know I’ve covered a lot of territory, but this town and the agencies trying to improve The Dalles are leaving out a significant portion of the population.

Judy Marshall

The Dalle