PAWS Campaign Activities

As part of our PAWS Campaign, PARD members participate in numerous activities to reach out to others in our community in order to promote a dialog regarding the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter. Two of our most crucial activities are letter writing and petitioning.

Letter Writing

PARD Members continuously write our city government with requests for a public meeting to be held as per city code. These letters have thus far gone unanswered as the city has refused for a public meeting to be held. Further, we, as part of our goal to communicate the concerns we have regarding the Wal-Mart issue, have written many letters to news sources in the area which have been published on a frequent basis.

Petitioning

Part of the concern that PARD has expressed regarding the Wal-Mart proposal has been that citizens of the area have had little to now opportunity to have their specific concerns heard and to have city management understand that a large segment of the population here does not want to see a Wal-Mart Supercenter built. Further, our community has had a desire to tell Wal-Mart that they are simply unwelcome. Are petition campaign serves those purposes: collect the names, phone numbers, and addresses of members of the community who wish to tell Wal-Mart that they think Wal-Mart should simply look elsewhere, as they are unwanted here.

PARD really needs your help to make our petition drive a success for the PAWS Campaign. Please volunteer your time to collect signatures.

Several retailers have joined us in our efforts to stop the Wal-Mart Superstore from being built by granting us permission to petitiion at their location or having copies of their petitions on the counters.

We would like to thank:

• Bookpeople
• Brused Books
• Dissmores
• HyperSpud Sports
• Les Schwab Tires
• Moscow Food Coop
• Rite Aid
• Safeway

If you would like to petition, please come to one of our meetings. There you can meet with the petition coordinator.

Petition Document Downloads

The documents below have been handed out at previous meetings. You use these documents during your petitioning efforts.

If you have trouble opening the documents, try using Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is free software which will allow you to open the documents provided on this web site.