LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: JIM DRURY HAS VISION FOR CAPE TO BE BETTER CITY

To the editor:

I would like to say thank you to Jim Drury. I look around at Cape and the surrounding area at all the progress, and I think God that there is a man with a vision, a man of means -- how else could the town have prospered the way it has?

We're not looking at an outsider here. This is the Drurys' town. They love it, or they wouldn't be here.

God has always used a man to bring growth, a man with great blessings bestowed upon himself and his children. Are we such a coveting people that we stone the ones more blessed than ourselves? Isn't that what we all strive for: to be blessed?

I enjoy all the businesses in town. As far as Jim only thinking of himself, I think not. Because of his position and influence, he has the opportunity to make a difference for a lot of financially challenged families who do not have a voice.

Many years ago, a lot of good Catholic Christians prayed for and were blessed with St. Vincent's property. That land is still ordained for the people -- all the people, not just the wealthy and not just the well-educated. There is enough land to do wonderful things for this community such as a civic center with an open gym to get the kids off the streets. Let's make us of that great kitchen with some of our older citizens teaching canning, quilting and so forth. Let's become a caring, working community, not burying our talents any longer, but investing them into our old, our young, our poor and, yes, our rich.

Are we our brother's keeper? I think yes. There is room for it all. We just need a vision, and we need to stop wasting time pointing fingers.

JOYCE REINER

Cape Girardeau