In response to the story about the Lucas County Land Bank breaking ground on the former St. Anthony Church project on Monday, I think it is a waste of money.

The church building should have been demolished and a modern building for a set purpose should have been built, not putting Band-Aids on a 131-year-old eyesore.

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I hope people have some idea what the maintenance costs will be, especially leaving in the current stained glass windows.

The community who built the church is long gone and it only lives on as a memory to those who attended as a child decades ago. Is spending millions on a feeling a proper use of tax dollars? I think not. Nostalgia doesn’t put food on the plate or get people jobs.

DOUGLAS BERGER

President Secular Humanists

of Western Lake

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