Re: "Children would be endangered by homeless using gazebo," letter to the editor, Friday, March 6.

Adele Garofano's comments regarding the Lions Park gazebo issue do not reflect a desire to potentially endanger one group of our society so we can serve another.

Allowing homeless people to have access to the gazebo would not necessarily mean that there will be needles and broken bottles lying around and it certainly wouldn't harm them. By saying this, you are just stereotyping all the homeless people into one section, saying that they are all drug addicts and alcoholics -- when, in fact, most of them are kind people who just found themselves in bad circumstances.

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