My husband and I are in full agreement with Christine Rutkowski (“What Port Orchard really needs is curb appeal,” April 17).

We constantly hear comments such as, “It’s a shame,” from others as they pass through the town of Port Orchard.

This opinion includes us.

We have come here to live in a wonderland of beauty that surrounds us, but we’re constantly obstructed by the drabness of a town that we hope will join others that have made an effort to make us proud, such as Gig Harbor and Poulsbo.

We have both voiced the desire that our town will some day wake up and bloom into something that we can be proud of and that we can invite others to enjoy.

We’re becoming tired of making excuses for our town’s lack of character.

We still have a glimmer of hope that it will become a place that people will flock to and not one that while passing through, we make remarks like “It’s a shame.”

JILL RILEY

Port Orchard