Locals deserve the right to access and enjoy the park, including the ability to have gather around a fire. It is absurd that we should be denied that enjoyment.
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Masako Kikuchi
4 years ago
Yes, fire rings need to be back.
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Carey Chenoweth
4 years ago
Please involve the Community of Lopez in the planning of our parks. We are here to help guide you in your County Services. We would like the return of our fire rings at Odlin. How can we assist you in making this happen? Just ask.
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Casey Buffum
4 years ago
Support local use. Keep the fire pits.
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Carmen Cicotti
4 years ago
We are an integral community that is diverse and wide. Online is one of those places on our island that we can go to and gather and celebrate and nourish this treasure that we share here, outdoors with the island and the water. Being able to cook and be warm by a shared fire is an essential part of what we share here.
Perhaps there is a different way to solve the problem that includes community involvement or education or awareness. In my experience this is one of the things we do best here.
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Kristin Fernald
4 years ago
Odlin Park is one of our community treasures with a long history of large and small gatherings that serve the whole community. Removing the fire rings is an affront to this history. If there is a problem to solve about how the fire rings are being used, please bring it to the community. We can work together on this.
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Neal Anderson
4 years ago
The re working of Odlin a few years back left the day use area with a poorly designed parking area , a few picnic tables and a few fire rings. The removal of the fire rings strips from the community much of what it is to commune…..sharing food ,songs, laughs and tears around a fire. In a time when most of us are occupied by the dull glow of our devices, …children and adults alike, the act of gathering and communing around a fire should be encouraged not eliminated. To post that fire pits are only for paying visitors is pathetic.
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Jennifer Ratza
4 years ago
The fire pits are missed at Odlin, especially in this time where outdoor social options for gathering safely are so needed. Please bring them back
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Jennifer Ratza
4 years ago
The fire pits are missed at Odlin, especially in this time where outdoor social options for gathering safely are so needed. Please bring them back
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Sally Aleen Shipley
4 years ago
I'm with Irene Skyriver.
Come on San Juan Parks, Pit Up!
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Anonymous
4 years ago
We have had fires and parties at Odlin for decades. Get your “rules” OFF us.
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Adam Nash
4 years ago
Save the fire pits! I fell in love with Lopez because of community gatherings there!
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Bob Sage
4 years ago
Like this effort
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Rich Gartland
4 years ago
I favor returning the fire pits but would hope we can all be a part of a workable solution to whatever problems led to the decision to remove them.
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Lynda Sellers
4 years ago
We need the pits back. Been here 45 years and around many a fire- after baptisms- birthdays- weddings-prayer times- picnics- why change now- what can we do?this is awful.
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Todd Stevens
4 years ago
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Please replace the fire pits. When the fire risk is low and it's cool islanders are responsible and it is part of the culture!
In the summer during high burn risk forbid the use.
Thank you for the consideration!
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Lawrence Snow
4 years ago
Bring them back.
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Carla Larmore
4 years ago
I love Odlin Park and hang out there year round with friends and fanily
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Faith Van De Putte
4 years ago
Odlin park is an important community gathering space. It is one of the only public places which we can gather both by the water and around a fire. Many quasi public beaches have been lost in the last 20 years and there is a deep cultural and sometimes spiritual need to sit around a fire with family and friends next to the salt water. Please bring back the firepits so we can continue to celebrate, birthdays, births, weddings and memorials with both fire and water.
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Pat Burleson
4 years ago
Odlin Park has a treasured place in our community. It brings back memories every time I visit! Family and friend gatherings around a fire while the little ones play in the sand, bare feet, as the sun sets. School class picnics. One of the important pieces that makes Lopez what it is.
Locals deserve the right to access and enjoy the park, including the ability to have gather around a fire. It is absurd that we should be denied that enjoyment.
Yes, fire rings need to be back.
Please involve the Community of Lopez in the planning of our parks. We are here to help guide you in your County Services. We would like the return of our fire rings at Odlin. How can we assist you in making this happen? Just ask.
Support local use. Keep the fire pits.
We are an integral community that is diverse and wide. Online is one of those places on our island that we can go to and gather and celebrate and nourish this treasure that we share here, outdoors with the island and the water. Being able to cook and be warm by a shared fire is an essential part of what we share here. Perhaps there is a different way to solve the problem that includes community involvement or education or awareness. In my experience this is one of the things we do best here.
Odlin Park is one of our community treasures with a long history of large and small gatherings that serve the whole community. Removing the fire rings is an affront to this history. If there is a problem to solve about how the fire rings are being used, please bring it to the community. We can work together on this.
The re working of Odlin a few years back left the day use area with a poorly designed parking area , a few picnic tables and a few fire rings. The removal of the fire rings strips from the community much of what it is to commune…..sharing food ,songs, laughs and tears around a fire. In a time when most of us are occupied by the dull glow of our devices, …children and adults alike, the act of gathering and communing around a fire should be encouraged not eliminated. To post that fire pits are only for paying visitors is pathetic.
The fire pits are missed at Odlin, especially in this time where outdoor social options for gathering safely are so needed. Please bring them back
The fire pits are missed at Odlin, especially in this time where outdoor social options for gathering safely are so needed. Please bring them back
I'm with Irene Skyriver. Come on San Juan Parks, Pit Up!
We have had fires and parties at Odlin for decades. Get your “rules” OFF us.
Save the fire pits! I fell in love with Lopez because of community gatherings there!
Like this effort
I favor returning the fire pits but would hope we can all be a part of a workable solution to whatever problems led to the decision to remove them.
We need the pits back. Been here 45 years and around many a fire- after baptisms- birthdays- weddings-prayer times- picnics- why change now- what can we do?this is awful.
Please replace the fire pits. When the fire risk is low and it's cool islanders are responsible and it is part of the culture! In the summer during high burn risk forbid the use. Thank you for the consideration!
Bring them back.
I love Odlin Park and hang out there year round with friends and fanily
Odlin park is an important community gathering space. It is one of the only public places which we can gather both by the water and around a fire. Many quasi public beaches have been lost in the last 20 years and there is a deep cultural and sometimes spiritual need to sit around a fire with family and friends next to the salt water. Please bring back the firepits so we can continue to celebrate, birthdays, births, weddings and memorials with both fire and water.
Odlin Park has a treasured place in our community. It brings back memories every time I visit! Family and friend gatherings around a fire while the little ones play in the sand, bare feet, as the sun sets. School class picnics. One of the important pieces that makes Lopez what it is.