Dear editor,
While reading the article by Recardo Thomas in the Enterprise Tocsin about putting a grocery store in the National Guard Armory, it didn’t sit well with me. There are a lot of elderly people living in Drew. To get to a grocery store out on the highway, it would be too far to walk. Therefore, they would have to hire someone to carry them to the store or get a relative to carry them.
As many vacant buildings as there are on Main Street, that is in walking of the residential sections of Drew, that seems a logical place to put a grocery store.
The Sunflower County Board of Supervisors might want to help fix one of the store buildings on Main Street to convert it into a grocery store. Someone might want to rent the National Guard building or the city could sell it and use the money to patch some of the thousands of pot holes in the streets of Drew. Dollar General could possibly want to buy a building on the highway.
Sincerely,
Johnny Gorrell
57-year citizen of Drew
