Our community can develop third spaces to support heat safety – Athens County Independent

Our community can develop third spaces to support heat safety – Athens County Independent

To the editor: I’m not sure how to start this letter as I’ve never written a letter to the editor before, but the recent heat wave has made me think a lot about the lack of third spaces. For readers who may not know, third spaces are places aside from work/school or home. We have so few of those anymore and it’s sad, but after this heat wave it made me realized that it’s also unsafe in many ways. For context, I live near Timothy House on the wes…