When your word is worth gold

Clyde and Green Springs does not have a Kalahari Water Park Resort in their backyard to donate $500,000 for a single project as does the Huron City Schools.

We have something even better - our local people.

No matter their income level, hundreds of local residents pledged a total of $1 million in 2003 toward building a new auditorium at Clyde High School. As the five-years of pledge collections wraps up this year, we are very close to the goal.

Whether you call it a performing arts center or an auditorium, people here pledged whatever they could afford toward its construction - upfront. Then voters passed a levy to cover the remaining $2 million cost.

For some people making a pledge is just so many words, but the residents of the Clyde-Green Springs Exempted Village School District have proven that their pledge is worth gold.

The two chairmen of that pledge drive - Joe Wilson and Todd Helms - should also be commended. They made us believed we deserved this fine facility, and we have become a better community for it.