To the editor:

The recent tragedy in which three young people were killed and one’s life probably ruined forever set me thinking again about the problem of young people on this island drinking and driving. When I first moved here 10 years ago, a boy had just been killed in the same way and there have been some since.

I imagine the schools have already done some education about the issue. Maybe they are doing it now — but it seems to me obvious that more, or maybe something different, needs to be done now.

This is a problem larger than the schools. It is obviously a community issue in which the community must find strategies to better protect it’s young people. As the Talmud says, “If not now, when?”

For starters, I am envisioning a community meeting in which school people, young people and community people come together to see what can be done and begin an action plan.

As parents and as a community, we all have a huge stake in this.

MAXINE JUNGE

Clinton