When news spread of the Jan. 19 accident involving two children, one who later died, the community grieved, right along with the family.
Shared grief is common, especially in smaller communities, said Margot Robb, program coordinator in Meeker for Colorado West Regional Mental Health, which also has an office in Rangely.
“All communities can be impacted by tragic events, as we have seen with the recent death of a young child,” Robb said. “In small,…
Shared grief is yet another attribute of small towns
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Your article about shared grief in a small town was wonderful. I was gladdened to see something in the paper this week about people who aren’t the self chosen “important people” of this little town. Most of the time people reading this paper who do not live here would think only a few families live here and go to special events or have something “noteworthy” to write about. I was thinking as I read this article (I never start reading the paper from the front page) Maybe this paper is actually worth reading. (Even though you took out what happened 100 years ago; mistake on your part) Then I turn to the “headliners” and wham!. There you go shoveling in dirt on a family that would never EVER do anything like that to you, much less think about shoveling dirt in your face. Maybe people from the “big city” like to read this kind of garbage but the majority of people in this small town DO NOT! You should be ashamed of writing about The Martin’s personal trials!. Especially after the horrible few weeks they have been going through! You should be ashamed of even THINKING of writing this garbage!. You can rest assured I’ll never read your paper again Mr. Editor . I’m not even going to subject my fire place to it by using it to start a fire.
Hi Ms. Posey.
We appreciate your comments. The events around the loss of the Martin’s son have been sad for all in the community. We likely would not have reported the domestic violence call made by Vanessa had it not happened a couple of hours before the accident. As Paul noted, it’s part of the events of the difficult day. We certainly don’t relish reporting things like that.
Let’s all continue to pray for the family during this difficult time.
Mitch
PS: We still do print the “days gone by” from 100 and 50 years ago in both our print and online editions.
I have to agree with Edye it was simply mean small town behavior on the papers part. Praying is fine but possibly some compassion is called for as well…….