TO THE EDITOR:

First off, I want all you readers of The Review to know I am neutral on the subject of horses as I can live with or without them. On the subject of having horses in the business district of Harris, I donít think so. People around the state will start calling Harris the manure capital of the upper midwest.

It seems the mayor of Harris hasnít thought about the ramifications of this cloudy vision that he had about four legged horses in town. Who in his right mind would want to go to dinner in Harris with a hitching post at the front of every door to the diner and have a horse or horses tied up to the hitching post letting off odorous gasses and a pile of manure in the roadway. I know I and a lot of other patrons would turn around and go home.

Mayor Smisson says it would bring and breathe new life into Harris. P.S. He must like to smell horse manure. Maybe Harris should go one step further and have a large stockyard so we could say we are the city full of bull! I believe that the four wheeled horses that are in the business district of Harris, omit enough odors that we are used to.

The city of Harris has ownership of less than one square mile of land, so the mayor thinks he can run roughshod over the twenty plus miles of outer rural Harris that the people own. The counties of Isanti and Chisago are already having problems with animal waste polluting our rivers and streams. I believe as others do that the mayorís vision of a horse town is a pipe dream, what was he smokingÖ wacky tobacky? As Kenny Rogers said, ìdonít bring your guns to town.î I say, donít bring your four legged horses to Harris, Mayor Smisson.

Carl Anderson
Harris