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Thursday, February 03, 2000     Page: 14A

MY COMPLIMENTS to Mark Guydish on the beautiful tribute to his father, and my
condolences on his loss. This is a lesson to most of us. Let your parents know
in their life how much you love them. THIS IS ABOUT the business owner who
wrote about people writing bad checks. He hit it right on the nail. I used to
own a business and it takes two minutes to write a bad check but it takes you
two years to get your money back. It all gets lost in the system and you don’t
get your money back and it cost you money to file and nothing ever happens, so
people who write these bad checks get away with it because there is nothing
done to them. What they need is, somebody to take a strong stand and send them
to jail, because I got ripped off with a lot of money. THE MAYOR of
Shickshinny is a hardworking honest person, not a politician. Certain
councilmen are against her no matter what she does, because she’s doing a lot
for the town. Keep up the great job mayor. At least you’re honest, not like
the rest of the crooks. … A Shickshinny taxpayer. A DAY WITHOUT Charlie
Brown, Snoopy, Peanuts and the gang is just not complete. Please run the
Peanuts strip daily. Thank you. EDITOR’S NOTE: We received similar calls.
WHENEVER YOU READ in the paper about somebody running somebody over or driving
through the store, it’s some old guy who shouldn’t have a license. It’s about
time we take them off of them. EDITOR’S NOTE: We seem to remember a few
stories about young people running over people, as well as things. I FIND IT
Hard to believe that Rabbi Joseph headed the Blue Ribbon Committee of the
Children Youth Services. How many Jewish children are involved in the upheaval
of domestic social problems? They should have had an individual who could walk
the walk and talk the talk from Step One to Step 10. I find this ridiculous.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re confused as to why someone’s ethnicity or religion would
be a factor in their ability to try to help children. ABOUT THE PEANUTS
verses the Simpsons cartoon debate in your paper. I don’t think the same
person would read both comics. I’ve been a Peanuts fan for years, I enjoy the
comic strip. It’s very intellectual, gentle and so forth. The Simpsons the way
I look at it has a lot of sarcasm and pessimism, so you please anybody by
having one and not the other, so I think you just got to print both. I’M
WONDERING why Wilkes-Barre has the worst roads in the entire country? I mean
I’ve seen third-world nations with better streets and pavements. THIS
SUSQUEHANNA RIVER landing project that’s proposed for Wilkes-Barre. What will
that do for the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society and its museum? Will
they combine efforts or will one fall wayside to the other. They’re both
supposedly about the history of the Valley. Just concerned what will happen to
that building and the efforts of the Historical Society? TO THE BUSINESS
owner that is apologizing for not taking personal checks. He doesn’t have to
apologize, I don’t see the problem and he doesn’t have to take personal
checks. I don’t blame him, I wouldn’t take the risk either. So I just do my
business where they do take my personal check. I don’t see any problem with
that. He just loses business and it goes to somebody who does take the
personal check. No problem. THE SHICKSHINNY Ambulance Association has now
hired some lawyer and architect to fight the borough ordinances in putting the
ambulance in a residential neighborhood. If that’s not silly enough, they want
to put the ambulance into the house by making modification to the house. They
are spending the good money we donated on this ridiculous venture when in fact
they were offered three other property locations free, but they are hell bent
on causing problems for the borough citizens and taxpayers. MR. KANJORSKI
instead of worrying about a museum along the river and whatever project you
have, why don’t you do something about the Notch Year babies? That’s been
coming a long time. AFTER READING George Smith’s outdoor column on the deer
lecture presented at the Bloomsburg Outdoor Show, it’s quite apparent that the
game commission is using scare tactics. That is forest destruction, lawsuits,
unfounded fears for the future of hunting if we don’t go along with the same
old song that there’s too many deer everywhere in Pennsylvania. WOULD YOU
PLEASE tell your reporter Stephanie Bombay that she’s not the only one who is
in fear of the intersection up by Denny’s heading towards the mall. I work in
the office with about 15 people and the topic of the conversation yesterday
was, how we all go the limits we go to avoid having to make left-hand turns at
that intersection, and the ages range from 23 up to about 62. And what amazed
all of us was that no one has actually been killed at that intersection and
evidently they’re going to have to wait until that happens before they do
something. But all of us feel the way she did, you’re taking your life in your
hand making a left-hand turn, so avoid it. HEY DID YOU ever hear of Burma
Road in the Himalaya Mountains? Well Coal Street in Wilkes-Barre is just
exactly like it. Is the mayor mad at the arena people, because that’s a pretty
main thoroughfare there? It’s horrifying. TO THE GUY that said “he took his
family for a 20-minute walk around Kirby Park and when he got back to his car
it took him 30 minutes to scrape the goose and bird droppings off his shoes.”
What does he want Mayor McGroarty to do, build a outhouse for them? I BELIEVE
that the death penalty is definitely a deterrent, but even if it weren’t at
least we don’t have to deal with these people again. … I think we should
follow the example of Texas. THIS IS FOR Majeski, your political cartoonist.
What’s the matter buddy, you got something against money? AFTER READING the
letter from Stephanie Jacobs in the mailbag on the 29th, I’m also mystified. I
don’t understand Mayor McGroarty’s objections to what they’re trying to do,
and I must confess that somehow or other I must have missed that in the paper
it must have been a day that I didn’t read it. I guess Mayor McGroarty
wouldn’t answer a SAYSO call, but I wish that someone would bring it to his
attention that, what’s his objection? I’d like to know. This sounds exactly
what he wants to do with the downtown. What’s his problem? I WOULD HATE to
live in a world without birds, including geese. So if you want to walk around
the pond at Kirby Park that’s a very nice thing to do, and it wouldn’t hurt to
pay attention to where you step. I’D LIKE to make a comment. All of you
Clinton-haters out there, Mr. Clinton’s approval raised 74 percent. And if it
wasn’t for the Kenneth Starr and the Congress of the United States on their
witch hunt, it would probably be 85 percent. Take that. Reaganomics. THIS IS
REGARDING your Jan. 27 edition of the paper. On the second page, there’s an
interview, the local section, with Mayor Tom about how the guys handled the
roads and how they worked 19 hours of straight plowing. Come on! 19 hours! I
can drive clear across country in 19 hours. I can definitely cover more roads
than they have. I suggest that Mayor Tom go on TV and tell the people to pull
up on the sidewalks. It might make it difficult for those walking, but the
roads would be clearer. It would be easier for the guys to plow the roads.
Maybe we’ll get a better job done here in Wilkes-Barre with a little
cooperation. Work smarter, not harder, Mayor Tom. I ATTENDED the ceremony at
the Kingston firehouse in which the mayor burnt Kingston’s indebtedness of
almost $2 million and saved us a tremendous amount of interest by paying off
this loan years before it was supposed to be paid off. And we also have a nice
little bundle set aside in our rainy day fund. I was so proud to see Kingston
accomplish this. Of course, Wilkes-Barre is going to face maybe hundreds of
thousands of dollars in payments because of early retirements, health
benefits, arbitration and the like, and it seems they’re just going to keep
laying out this money, hand over fist. Therefore, I say to you, Kingston’s
burning of their indebtedness years ahead of its scheduled payment just goes
to show how efficient a government can be run. Of course, we know what party
controls Kingston and we know what party controls Wilkes-Barre. That’s the
difference in a nutshell.