Following the rules

I am so saddened by an article I read today on the front page of the Lake Placid Journal. It tells of a recent "Candy Day" fundraiser held by the Lake Placid Lions Club. Seventy- year-old Lion Miles Lambert, who was born and raised in Lake Placid, and who at the young age of 18 years old first became one of the Lake Placid Lions Club's first members, was arrested, being charged with a misdemeanor for attempting to raise money for the blind and deaf by standing on the sidewalk of the Lake Placid Post Office.
After 52 years of giving so much of his time and efforts in the attempt to raise money for those people in our county who so desperately need help with vision and hearing problems, it is unbelievable that our sweet little town has now been infiltrated by someone in such need of standing up to "The Rules" in lieu of someone else's pain. In this day, when so many folks are out of jobs, whose children desperately need glasses that they can't afford, one would certainly admire someone who is giving of his time and efforts to try and help.
Obviously, Stewart Roberts, who felt the need to make a big deal about following "The Rules" that have been overlooked for these past many years, has never sat across from a child, while doing an eye screening in all our local schools, who could not even see the big "E" on the chart, and when asked, "where are your glasses," are told they broke them several months earlier and mom and dad can't afford to get new ones. As we stand in front of Publix, Winn-Dixie, Sweetbay and the post office each year, we know it is not the Lake Placid folks who mind us collecting at all. People always dig deep into their pockets to donate.
Jeanne Parzygnat
Lake Placid