We recently returned to the Grand Theatre at the Salt Lake Community College to attend a play. Because of my difficulty walking any great distances, we drove to the front of the state-owned school to park in the small handicapped lot using my state-issued handicap license plates but found that it had been torn out and replaced with lawn.
We drove to the back of the school, to the next closest parking, only to find that all of the handicap signs had been altered to say that the state plates were not enough — you also had to buy a permit from the school. We drove to the farthest away lot, parked and slowly made the long walk through the empty, but forbidden spaces to the beautifully landscaped, but very long walkway into the back of the school, all under gaily colored banners ironically declaring that the college was celebrating "Accessibility Awareness Week."
Patty Wells
Salt Lake City