This winter, Save-Our-Beaches held a monthly meeting every second Saturday morning, standing room only, and thanks to all of you that attended! We invited local experts, town officials, lawyers, and even homeowners from the plaintiffs suing the Town to stop free access to Goose Rocks Beach and put everyone together in a setting to ask questions and share thoughts and concerns.
Well, let’s do it again! Come hear your neighbors, your friends and legal folks updating us all, on Tuesday night, July 27, at the Goose Rocks Dairy (rain site is Kennebunkport Conservation Trust building–directions as we get closer and see what the weather looks like.) Save-Our-Beaches invites visitors concerned about the effort by a few homeowners to determine who can sunbathe in front of their houses–if you’d seen the beaches today you’d wonder why these people would be concerned! It was a hot Sunday today, but the enjoyment of hundreds of people doing what they and their families have done for generations was apaparent–playing, splashing and laughing as they enjoyed this beach that we all love. Speaking as a person that has grown up on beaches like Myrtle Beach, Virginia Beach, Sarasota, St. Augustine and other places, I fail to understand why anyone would take such drastic steps, to sue the community!
So why do a few oceanfront homeowners, many not even here in the summer, want to stop all of this? Well, let’s meet and discuss this. Homeowners that are suing the Town and “all unascertained persons” are welcome to speak, and perhaps we can learn what the end goals might be, and if there is anything anyone can do to avoid a long, costly court battle.
While Save-Our-Beaches has tried to help facilitate discussions, we hear that some discussions are currently occurring, and while it is really up to the two sides to find a middle ground, we whole heartedly endorse the effort, and hope rational minds can come to some agreements instead of using courts and lawyers.
If you are curious as to what the Town has done to try and head this thing off, or get it settled, please check out Larry Mead’s comments as Town Manager on the Town’s website on this suit, http://www.preservegooserocksbeach.org
OK, back to our meeting on July 27. Come hear what we know, and join us, weather permitting, at our friends, Goose Rocks Dairy and Brandy’s on the Rocks great location off of Route 9 right at Goose Rocks in Kennebunkport. As mentioned, if we have rain, we’ll meet at the KCT building, and thanks as always to our friends who do such great work preserving the area, at www.kporttrust.org .
We’ll be relatively brief, allowing families time for dinner before or after, and we offer updates on the legal scenarios, tee shirts and buttons to show your support around keeping open access like we’ve enjoyed for 100 years. We’ll let you know if the opportunity to join 174 families involved in the suit has been extended, and details around that.
So please join us, and like all of our meetings, they are your meetings, and your questions with folks that can tell you what we know, and when we knew it!
See you there, July 27, 6:30 to 8 PM, and thank you for all of your support!