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0 <br />t <br />Jack Roberts, Executive Dir-ctor <br />Madison Center for Children <br />701 N. Niles Avenue <br />South Bend, In 46617 <br />Dear Jack Roberts: <br />625 East Riverside Drive <br />South Bend, In 46601 <br />October 14, 1996 <br />As twenty -five-year residents of East Riverside Drive, we were surprised <br />last winter to see your hospital springing up across the river. We lived through <br />the noisy months of construction. Now we have the glaring security lights that <br />hit us once and then again as they are reflected in the water. <br />It seems like a top-heavy building, too large for the narrow piece of ground <br />that'it occupies. The river bank seems an unlikely place for such a facility, <br />judging from at least two situations at your East Race Hospital where disoriented <br />patients had to be rescued from the water. <br />• I hope the rumor is unfounded that you plan to remove the trees between your <br />building and the river. This will co.; Lely destroy the ecology of the river <br />bank, a spot which, until recently, was part of the territory of a great horned <br />owl, and which, until recently, was the nesting spot for a pair of great blue <br />herons. It seems to us that you have done enough damage without destroying any <br />more trees. <br />Do you understand the immense valt­ to the city and community of such a nat- <br />ural river corridor? Are you at all sensitive to the impact you have already made <br />on your neighbors as well as the hundreds of birds and other forms of wildlife in <br />this area that struggle to maintain themselves along this river? We hope that you <br />are. And we expect a reply. We expect to know, specifically, whether or not you <br />plan to remove these trees. <br />Sincerely yours, <br />• Julie and Dennis White <br />VX, <br />GLA -1 <br />