Protect city's creativity

After wiping the tears from my eyes at hearing Cole Skinner and the rest of the Dame gang were leaving their posts, I opened my eyes up to what is happening in this city.

All our young, energetic, enthusiastic, unstoppable, optimistic, creative people are being driven from their places of prestige in this city, keeping it confined to its state of status quo.

Mecca is being pushed from its home to make room for high-end housing, even though it can be credited for being part of the Limestone revitalization effort of the last few years. The Wheel Liquor Store, Dutch Mill Cafe and other shops in that strip are being torn down to make room for another parking lot. What are we doing to ourselves? To our community?

Keep this up and we'll squash everything good we've got going -- squash it into conforming vinyl two-story houses just a two-minute drive from the nearest strip mall featuring all your favorite chain stores.

If we don't start paying attention to and empowering our young leaders like the Damesters, like developer Phil Holoubek, like Teresa Tomb and the Mecca troop, like Lexington Project energizers Ross Compton and Vanessa Oliver, like the Lexicon Project parents, like all the other young people who come out of UK and immediately find a better, more inspiring place to put their creative energies, we'll be in the desperate place we were in the 1980s, when Lexington was a ghost town dying a slow death.

You've been warned.

Amber Scott

Lexington