THIS is a letter which is intended to prick our consciences and follows several others deploring the loss of the facilities provided by Age Concern and the Citizens' Advice Bureau.
If little Lydford can raise £12,000 in six months for new church bells, Okehampton residents both new and old should be able to help Age Concern and the Citizens' Advice Bureau over the loss of their outreach worker!
After the 1914-18 war an earlier generation of Okehampton people built the District Memorial Hospital by subscription. Later on, by the same method, they built a swimming pool — still in use.
Currently we spend all our spare cash on the new hospital.
It seems that there is always money for new houses, new conservatories, holidays abroad and regular eating out. But if we really want something lasting which is for the commonweal — new word for community — and we really want something enough, we can do it.
The papers and radio are currently highlighting a shortage of Devon County Council funds. We should not sit back and bemoan the fact but get something organised.
A Crampton
St James Street
Okehampton