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Sunday, March 28, 1999 Page:
SAYSO
I’m calling about the article in Wednesday’s newspaper about the Children
and
Youth Agency not protecting Dominique Thomas. As their name implies, they
should be looking out for the children and youth in our community, instead of
looking out for the adult parents who are unwilling to change. If case workers
are going to be arrested, shouldn’t Judge Muroski be arrested too?
How can you let the investigation of Children and Youth up to the state
department of Public Welfare Children and Youth office? They have an ongoing
relationship. It’s the job of the state Children and Youth office to promote
Children and Youth Services. Do you think they’re going to put the best spin
that they can on this situation so as not to embarrass the whole Children and
Youth system?
Peter Paul Olszewski is grandstanding when he’s going to investigate the
death of a child and blame Children and Youth Services. Why doesn’t Peter Paul
investigate the lawyers who are appealing George Banks’ death penalty? How
long will the taxpayers have to pay for this to carry on?
I have just read the story in today’s newspaper of chief of Children Youth
Services extolling the work of his organization. Yet, he cites many cases of
malfeasance by his people in the past years. Who is this guy kidding? There
exists a pattern of negligence by his caseworkers. Let’s have some good and
competent people to handle those future cases.
I’m calling about the horrendous condition of the roadway on North Sherman
Street in the Heights section of Wilkes-Barre, between Coal Street and the
Heights Elementary School. The superintendent of streets should take a good
look at it. It’s got to be one of the worst streets in Wilkes-Barre. What are
we paying taxes for?
Today is March 25th, and I just came home from work. I’m a truck driver for
a parcel carrier. I’d just like to comment on the roads in the Wyoming Valley:
The worst being in Wilkes-Barre, the second worst in Plains Township. On the
good side, I’ve got to give Kingston the honor of being the best and
Swoyersville the second. Let’s get on with Wilkes-Barre.
The picture you have in the Back Mountain Leader of a female state employee
supervisor shows her wearing sneakers on a construction site. Where are her
work shoes? Is this OSHA’s new regulation shoe style? Wow! Amazing.
I’m an avid reader of the SAYSO and it’s funny how it just seems like
people have nothing better to do all day than talk about other people. Anyway,
I’m just calling for something really sweet. I just want to let my boyfriend
know that I love him with all my heart. So if you’re reading Donald, I love
you baby.
Editor’s note: You’ve probably made lots of Donalds feel better too.
I’m a Nanticoke taxpayer. I’d like to know how come eight cops are working
in the daytime and only two at night? Seems to me if I was going to do
something wrong I’d wait until dusk. How about looking into that, Mayor Toole?
I wish that Jimmy Connors was the mayor of Wilkes-Barre city. He just got
all that federal money from the federal government and hired all those police
officers to walk foot patrols in Scranton. Jimmy Connors knows how to run a
police department.
Clinton has the senior citizens figured out down to a path. Thirty years
ago, they all called him a draft dodger. Now, if he committed murder on tape,
all he has to mention is Social Security and Medicare, they’d vote for him a
third time. They’re stupid.
I don’t believe there’s any inflation of the grades, at least not at
Coughlin. But I do know that the honor roll has got my daughter more excited
about school and working harder than she ever has in the past. Thank you,
Coughlin.
A woman called and she wanted to know if any seniors were helped by the
Pennsylvania Lottery program. We have. My husband had a stroke and we were
forced to close our business and thank God for the Pace program because we
would have lost our house. My husband has $500 worth of medicine bills a
month. Another thing that the Pennsylvania Lottery helps is the Bureau for the
Aging, and the property tax and the rent rebate that we’ve been helped by. So,
they are doing some things for seniors.
I’d like to call in reference to the woman who is having problems at
Juvenile Probation. Yes, they threaten and threaten and threaten and do
nothing about it. They have no follow-up, they come to visit. They threaten
the kids and do nothing about it.
This is in regard to the problem with the Children and Youth Service
program. I believe that all of those involved with that tragedy that just
recently happened should also be held personally liable. If that had happened
in a hospital or a day care center, we certainly would have seen attorneys
flocking to take up this lawsuit.
Time for a little humor. I hear that Dan Hanson, a very active Republican
candidate for Harveys Lake Borough Council, is out every day on the lake
getting all the geese registered Republican. This is a joke, of course. Ha,
ha, ha. Go Dan, go.
Steve Corbett attempts to write, but I don’t know if he can read. But if he
can, tell him to look in your Friday paper on the 26th, a column by Mona
Charen. I think it applies to him pretty heavily.
Thanks Times Leader for starting the methadone alert. My God, my children
spend every free moment at the mall just a half a mile away from the Veterans
Hospital. You must act and act quickly. Manganiello must be dispatched to
Alaska on a unicycle while the rest of us gather up torches and storm the
hospital driving the mad doctor from our valley.
We were wondering who is responsible for the transportation of Wyoming
Valley West school buses? The bus stops and picks up a group on one side and
then another block picks up one student. This is more than once a day. This is
using taxpayers money for extra gas. Can’t this one student walk to the group?
When we went to school, we walked with snow up to our waist. Can’t this other
student walk to the other group?
I’m just reading today’s SAYSO regarding Steve Corbett’s editor’s note
comment regarding Perugino’s on South Main Street. I too was a regular at
Perugino’s Restaurant. It was a wonderful, very small, intimate, beautiful
Italian restaurant. Since they changed their venue, I have to agree with
Steve,
A caller from Plains. Mama, don’t let your children grow up to be smokers.
Just thought I’d let the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and Plains North
End parents know, many kids are smoking across from the Solomon/Plains
Elementary School no less. Parents, watch your children and check on them.
When you drop your kids off at the Plains/Solomon Elementary School, they’re
lighting up across from the school in the alley. I was wondering too, if The
Times Leader could possibly do some photography in terms of taking a picture
of Coughlin High School students smoking after school and possibly coming up
to Plains to the Solomon Area and taking some pictures. Maybe parents will
realize that when they drop their kids off, kids are doing things they
shouldn’t be doing.
Maybe you can find out why the Valley West School District is covering up
an incident that happened last Friday at play practice. One of the teachers
there picked up a chair and threw it at a boy and hit him in the head. There
were a lot of witnesses to the incident. There were all these kids who were at
play practice and there were a couple of teachers there too and they all could
testify that it wasn’t an accident. The teacher … picked up the chair, threw
it at the kid and hit the kid in the head. I’d like to know why nothing is
being done about it? A lot of the parents have been waiting to see what action
the School District would take about it, but it doesn’t seem like they’re
going to do anything. I think something should be done about teachers
assaulting the students like that.
Editor’s note: School officials refused to comment on the recent incident
that took place during rehearsal for the school’s upcoming musical, “Bye, Bye
Birdie.” But the boy’s father said that while students and staff were
arranging chairs in the orchestra pit, a teacher threw a chair to his son, who
didn’t have a place to sit. The student wasn’t looking and was hit in the
head, but not seriously hurt. “It was an accident, nothing malicious,” the
father said.