Your president of the UTRGV Environmental Awareness Club was invited to Pharr City Hall to club environmental awareness into the assembled citizens. Ms. Julissa Roman seemingly accomplished that task with her powerfully moving presentation as the city manager immediately followed her well-received, heartfelt rhetoric with the verbal assurance of arboreal amnesty only to see two of the “conserved” oaks in question befall a Pharr different, sinister fate.
We citizens of Pharr thank your institution of higher learning for planting the seeds of stewardship of our abused, native, arboreal environment deep into your students’ hearts and minds, but regret the real-world results, a tuition-free, lesson for life, on the action, or lack thereof, of government theoretically existing for the people and by the people versus circumventing the citizens regarding the mindless destruction of those majestic live oaks, now and forever, very dead oaks. However, the ensuing lesson learned will live on!
Dr. K.C. Fletcher
Pharr
