This is truly sad. Our trips to Paragon were the stuff of legends.
All the great camping trips at the Red Ridge Lake Campground with so many of my great friends from this forum, have been some of the best times of the last 4 years. Now it seems like those times may be coming to an untimely end.
Frankly I think that the idea of a cargo airport in that location is absurd and really question the logic of those that think just because it is a good idea for the local economy that this is a place to put the project. Last time I checked airports were straight and LEVEL strips of land, and the Paragon site is anything but that. They are pushing Paragon out for a proposed project which will rely on federal funding, not funding that has already been procured.While our government is prone to throwing good money after bad; i.e the big dig in Boston, numerous construction projects in Iraq that have been destroyed right after they've been completed, and millions of dollars given to Iraqi rebuilders that have dissappeared with our dollars before one dime was spent for the good of their country, I would hope someone would step up and realise that there has to be a better place to locate an airport. While it may be too late to save Paragon I will be certain to let my leaders know that I don't think our tax dollars need to be squandered on such a folly.
Pops, I'm so glad that you will be going to represent us. Unfortunately I can't make it on such short notice, but I hope that you guys create quite a stir. I have signed my name onto the save paragon petition
http://petitionspot.com/petitions/savePAP/ for what its worth, and encourage everyone on this site that enjoys having the ability to ride offroad, wherever they are to help support us here. At the very least the owners of Paragon will know that they have our support and thanks for the good times they have made possible.