I found Jerald McNair’s column (“Get to know your neighbor and grow your community,” Star-Advertiser, Dec. 22) to be particularly inspiring and timely for us all to “chart a new course by being more neighborly” — beginning this season of goodwill and New Year, and applying the practice again to our own neighborhoods, and possibly beyond to include nations.
As cited in his example of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, we can all take responsibility and accountability to be a good neighbor, as we can view all to be members of our family — working for each other’s well-being.
Neighborhoods can possibly again organize block clubs and organizations, giving opportunities for better communication, interaction and support — to address even the social-media effects and inequities for youth presented in the adjacent article by Pamela Paul (“New-media high, lows,” Star-Advertiser, Dec. 22). Shared attitudes and behaviors well contribute to restoring civility, peace and common good.
So, “Won’t you be my neighbor?” ’Tis the season.
Sam Hashimoto
Mililani
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