Hello all,
  
  I am writing to ask for your help once again. As many of you may or may not be aware, the Titans Pop Warner football have been leading the charge to use the fields at the Lawton farm on Seven Mile Road in Scituate. We have met some opposition to this from the residents there.. Fortunately many of them are Cranston residents who do not vote in Scituate, but there are some Scituate voters that have written many letters and attended town council meetings to voice their opposition. We need to spread the word to all Scituate sports fans. The use of these fields is not limited to football. There are approximately 100 lacrosse players that travel to other towns to play, the soccer field is crowded and needs updating. Softball is growing to almost 100 in three years. Where will all these kids play? Why, if when the bonds were prepared to purchase the Lawton farm they included 15 acres for athletic fields has it never been utilized? Because every time any group wanted to use it they met this same opposition. Then those same sports groups had to struggle and find their own facilities. In today's budget conscious societies, that independent thinking and action is ridiculous. We all need to unite and let the town council know we are in favor of utilizing the Lawton fields. You may not realize it but they do listen you all. Write them a letter, attend the next town council meeting October 11th better yet do both. Spread the word and encourage your neighbors to write and attend as well. I love working with the kids, I love providing outlets for them to participate in. When I was a kid, my father was a mean drunk, one night he smacked my mother and I chased him out of the house with a baseball bat. Sports were my outlet to become what I am today. I do all for the kids of this town also because I also know from my work on the rescue there are other kids right here in Scituate that are in the same spot I was, or worse. Have you ever responded to a home and found a 14 year old, drugged, drunk and full of razor cuts on their wrists, in a suicide attempt? Have you ever transported a 16 year old strung out on ecstasy? I have! Believe me these things happen right here in little ole Scituate. We need to work together to prevent other kids from falling, we all need to verbalize our desires to keep our kids active and out of trouble and we need to develop not only the Lawton field, the Chopmist field and the new school facilities to do this.. BUT YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP NOW!!!
  
  I sit at the fields and listen to all you complain about what should be, and I agree with you. I have stepped up and taken an active role to help fix some of the issues, please don't leave me out here hanging by myself.. I have always said if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem... Become part of the solution, speak up now and speak up for as long as it takes...
  
  The town council email address are as follows,
  Bob Budway Budway90@aol.com
  Dwight Farrar farrardri@aol.com
  David Dagostino ddag@cox.net
  Wayne Salisbury wlsalisbury@verizon.net
  John Winfield csori@att.net
  Chuck Collins CAC602@cox.net
  Peggy Long scitclerk@aol.com
  
  
  Thanks in advance for your time.
  Wendy Knowlton