After speaking with my mom over the past four winters I have to finally ask the following question of the Town of Randolph:

My mother and several other elderly residents are grateful for the reserved parking provided for them by Red Lion Inn in the parking lot across the street behind The Herald and the bank; however, they find that after the Town of Randolph plows the parking lots, the residents' cars are now blocked behind high snow banks as a result of the snow plows doing their jobs. These senior citizens do not have the ability to shovel those high snow banks nor should they have to. What is the town thinking? Senior residents can't afford to pay the fees that individuals charge to shovel their cars out, nor should they have to.

My Mom has lived at Red Lion Inn for over four years and each year it gets worse, as not only do the senior residents have to deal with the snow being piled up behind their cars from the snow plows, they have to deal with the ice that is now coating the high banks due to the fact they could not get the high bank shoveled soon enough before it froze.

What senior citizen can shovel through that stuff? And again-why should they have to? I am surprised and bewildered that the person driving the plow doesn't realize or care that he has just blocked in a car that belongs to a senior citizen who has no way of gaining access to it.

Yes, if family members are available to help shovel out the cars, they should do so, without being asked, and without expecting to be paid, but what about those senior residents who don't have family located near them? They are quite literally left out in the snow. Sad.

J. Magee

Florida