More than 2,500 signatures have been added to our petition aiming to make a statement to Louisiana legislators as they are faced with determining the fate of Hodges Gardens State Park in West Central Louisiana (southern Sabine Parish, just north of Vernon Parish).
PETITION LINK: http://allthingssabine.com/keep-hodges-gardens-state-park-open/
While I am enthused by the participation on the petition, I strongly believe there is so much more support out there for Hodges Gardens. The largest source of hesitance I am hearing regarding signing the petition is that it requires an email address and people are concerned they will be added to a mailing list or something. This is the reason we did not create a petition through Change dotOrg or any of the other established, heavily marketed petition websites, because with those, your email or Facebook profile can be added to databases… This particular petiton… a completely grass roots effort… is hosted only on our local server (All Things Sabine) and neither is it our intent nor our wishes to share your email address… I just want to stress that in hopes of encouraging more interested people to sign.
You can be any age to sign the petition, and live any where… and you can use more than one name per email (I believe so, anyway, meaning multiple members of a family should be able to sign). So please, help us TRY OUR BEST to make a loud and clear statement to State officials that we don’t want Hodges to close, and therefore, we do want the State of Louisiana to find funding needed to keep the park open and operating as is needed.
I realize the state is in a budget crunch… Heck, I have heard that for the last 20 years, and supposedly this time it is for real, BUT, remember, the State Legislature always finds a way for projects they or many of its members deem important… I want to let them know HODGES GARDENS IS IMPORTANT. We have so little out here in the west central part of Louisiana… we get so little from our State… and yet we deal best as we can and are relatively quiet about it all… The State does not need to take away one of the few things we have to enjoy and cherish! Once again, here is a link to the petiton: http://allthingssabine.com/keep-hodges-gardens-state-park-open/