Senior trespassed
Regarding the article “Trespassing decision upheld after appeal” (PDN, Feb. 22).
As I said in July 2024, “I am still reeling and in awe of the response from the powers at be at our beloved senior center. An 80-year-old senior asking about policies results in banishment, for three years? How is that even a thing?”
Instead of rebuking him and avoiding a legitimate response for over four months and then when he still wants an answer, “Nope, you gotta go.”
Then another senior attempts to renew his membership, and she also is told to leave and issued a trespass, also for three years.
The second individual is the focus of the recent article as she is looking for a solution.
Her appeal attempt, a very onerous process involving a hearing examiner who usually deals with land use, was met with the same result, despite all the discrepancies noted by witnesses and Ms. Carmen Geyer herself throughout the more than seven-hour-long hearing.
No outside food was a new policy written up in November 2024.
Apparently, according to City Manager Nathan West, that is because the Senior Center has a cafe. Really?
Although the Olympic Medical Center cafeteria, Peninsula College cafeteria, Port Angeles High School cafeteria and most restaurants allow one to bring in a small amount of food.
It is just an amazing amount of time, energy, human resources, for what outcome?
Sounds like bullies at work to me.
Ileana Murphy
Port Angeles