It is a pleasure to see Walmart survived the numerous unneeded hurdles that they had to go through. They succeeded, and passed the biased opposition of the RiverKeepers, conservationists, tree huggers, etc.

In this modern age, more competition in business helps all of the shoppers. In the minds of my neighbors, friends and I, the smaller businesses in our area that are friendly, treating customers correctly and running their stores right will all survive.

First of all, if you have a problem in your mind with Walmart, you don’t have to patronize them.

The Warrenton area has been growing in a very good fashion since the 1970s, and this will be a very good asset to our community. Furthermore, this will really help out on eliminating some of the heavy traffic on U.S. Highway 30 that occurs at the present time, from all of the people on the North Coast who travel to Longview, Washington, to shop.

Ken Crow

Warrenton