together to work together and to become friends. Folks banded together like I haven't seen in a long time. It is just a shame that it takes a crisis for folks to get to know their neighbors a little better (how long have I been saying that?).
    One of the property owners along Fairfield recently took a trip to Tibet. Among the souvenirs he brought back were Tibetan prayer flags. In a most generous fashion, he distributed these to the residents along Fairfield and in Patterson Heights. The prayer flags are colorful banners the Tibetan people hang as part of their ritual prayers. One of the longer prayer banners was hung at the site of the proposed super-duplex at 603 Fairfield. In addition to that banner, there are at approximately a dozen other homes in the neighborhood flying these banners as symbols of unity, and in hopes (and prayers) that our neighborhood will be protected. I would love to see Hyde Park filled with prayer banners (I don't even particularly care which god you pray to as long it is a god that
Bruce Nadig and wife Merleen Gray display the Tibetan prayer flags which up to this point seem to have worked, halting an encroaching superduplex.
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supports community, safety, health, and understanding, while at the same time opposes mega-duplexes, amoral developer / speculators, and ridiculously large houses of worship with equally out-of-scale parking facilities). Wheatsville Co-Op usually tries to keep some of the prayer flags in stock. If you would like to get your own prayer flag and can't locate any, please send me an e-mail (e-mail only please on this request). I'll try to hook you up.
    Keep on smiling. Fight the good fight for the neighborhood. Fly those Tibetan prayer flags with pride.
-- Bruce Nadig
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