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Friday, November 06, 1998 Page:
SAYSO
This is in regards to the dentist washing their hands. I also had a problem
like that. I once asked my dentist why he doesn’t wash his hands when he comes
into the room that I’m in. He says, he washed his hands before he came in
while he was in the other patients’ rooms. But, how do I know he did? I would
prefer if he just wash his hands where I can see himTalking about the bad
roads in the area. Plains is the worst. How about going down Second Street off
of Laird Street in Plains. Second Street connects Laird Street with East Main
Street in Plains by the Woodlands. That road is a safety hazard, absolutely
disgusting. The next one is on the Solomon school road … Abbott Street I
believe. That street and Mill Street by the gas station. Plains Township
should be shot for their road department. They have a guy with a shovel and a
coal patch, that’s the extent of their road department. These roads need a
massive, massive undertaking to be fixed.
Could someone please tell me why there are tags on pillows saying “do not
remove under penalty of law?”
Editor’s note: The admonition is for retailers. Without the tags, consumers
wouldn’t know the kind of material used to make the pillow. Consumers can
remove the tags.
You don’t think anyone is coming to your house to check your pillows, do
you?
I would like to know when a traffic light or blinking light is going to be
put up at the intersection by the Hunlock Creek post office. That’s a bad area
to get out of when the traffic is heavy, and it needs a blinking light or a
traffic light.
I have lived on Ewine Street in Jenkins Township for about two years, it’s
a very small street. We don’t have a street sign. There was a sign, it got
knocked down, and I called the township and they’ve been telling me for months
the sign is on the truck. Where is the street sign? Help us to get a street
sign, please.
Whatever happened to the Pittston Area Taxpayers Association and their
enforcement of the nepotism law at Pittston Area? Last week one of the school
director’s sons was hired as a full-time security man at the high school and
not a word has been said by the Pittston Area Taxpayers Association. Is this
one of their fair-haired school directors? Is this why they’re not saying
anything and speaking out? I think people want to know.
Editor’s note: Sal Alaimo, president of the Pittston Area Taxpayers
Association assures us the organization is alive and kicking. “And we’re
building up for another go. As far as the nepotism goes, well we’re concerned
about it, but the board passed that policy saying they’d hire the best
qualified people. There’s not much we can do.”
The little clown was at it again over the weekend, I’m talking about “Bozo
McGroarty.” He shows up at Mr. Soltis’ fund-raiser, wasn’t invited, you know
trying to be the wise guy that he is. And who does he drag along with him?
Neil O’Donnell, a Luzerne County solicitor, if I remember right. What in God’s
name was he doing trying to crash a party with McGroarty is beyond me. I used
to have respect for Neil O’Donnell, but now I think he’s just another one of
McGroarty’s clowns. You might want to call him in on this and ask him why he
tried to crash a party he wasn’t invited to and why he’d blacken Neil
O’Donnell’s name by dragging him along?
I’m calling about the Pennsylvania Game Commission. I and my co-workers
hunt six days a week and overtime, and I think it’s not fair. There should be
something passed. We should be able to hunt on Sundays. Thank you.
Editor’s note: Do you mean you work six days a week and overtime?
I was wondering how many Wilkes-Barre police are scheduled to work at
night? I was reading in your paper today about the happening down by King’s
College. I have to wonder, that’s almost directly downtown. How could there
haven’t been police around? They have people walking around with masks on and
beating up people. I mean where are the police? I live in Wilkes-Barre and I
can tell you in my neighborhood, I never see the police. We just had Halloween
on Saturday night and in our neighborhood there wasn’t one patrol car that
went by the entire night, and I know they were saying there was supposed to be
60 police cars out on Friday and Saturday night.
I’m calling in conjunction with the Daily Number, the pick three and Big 4.
I know a lot of people are getting disgusted. Over the past five or six months
the sevens have been predominate, and so much so, that it seems like something
is fishy about it. How come they come up all the time? There must be other
numbers, and people are quitting. The woman next door said she’ll never play a
number again. She’s the one that called my attention to this.
I’m calling to SAYSO about your outdoor writer, George Smith. For the last
two or three times in the paper all he’s writing about is fishing, fishing,
fishing. Fishing season’s over. It’s hunting season. Is he anti-hunter? And he
never has any articles in about hunting or the deer controversy or about the
Game Commission meetings that they had here, or anything that’s going on at
all with the new laws and regulations. I mean, come on, why don’t you get
somebody else down there that at least does some outdoors in the winter time
too, not just fish, fish, fish. Thank you.
Editor’s note: We’re glad you’re so enthusiastic about hunting stories
because that’s been the majority of Smith’s work the past six weeks. Here’s
what Smith has written about on the Outdoor page, which is published on
Sundays: Nov. 1- turkey hunting and an outdoors show on TV; Oct. 25- turkey
hunting and salmon fishing; Oct. 18- duck hunting; Oct 11- small game season
and hunting rabbits; Oct. 4- trout fishing; Sept 27- archery. In addition, in
his column published on Friday, Smith has written about a local angler who set
a record, the game commission, research on chestnut trees and mushroom
picking. He published reports following each day of the Oct. 5 and 6 game
commission meeting. In fairness, Smith could balance all these hunting stories
with some fishing, because fishing season continues year round. We know one
angler who doesn’t start ’til the snow starts falling.
I would like to know if there is anyone out there that would know legally
if you could advertise people’s names in the paper that don’t pay their bills
for services? It’s gotten to a point now where people think they can have
things done and don’t have to pay for them. I really want to know if there’s a
legal way that we can advertise their names in the paper. If anyone knows, I’d
love to know, through your paper, and maybe even leave your phone number.
Editor’s note: A newspaper is prohibited by federal statute from accepting
private ads that list debtors.
I’m watching the Leeza show today and they have a family on there whose son
was executed for committing a murder which he sai