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Monday, February 07, 2000     Page: 8A

REGARDING YOUR CHANNEL guide that comes with the Sunday Times Leader. There
are many, many discrepancies with it. I’m an Adelphia customer in West
Pittston and most of the channel designations on my TV do not match what is
listed in your guide. Please, if you get a chance to look into this, it would
be very helpful to have a correct listing. EDITOR’S NOTE: Adelphia is
continuing to upgrade, which changes the channel configuration for their
customers. Therefore, they have asked us to list channel information for the
majority of homes. We’re sorry that we can’t list information for every area,
but we try to keep up with changes as they are made by local cable companies.
Adelphia customers can contact the cable company to find out when their areas
will be upgraded. WHY DON’T THEY list Channel 39 for Service Electric,
Channel FX anywhere in the TV Book? I was hoping the Times Leader could
correct that. EDITOR’S NOTE: A limited number of channels can be included in
the weekly TV Book. Perhaps readers can agree on a channel that they’d like to
see dropped from the listings to make room for FX. IF A COUNCILMAN resigns,
what’s the procedure to replace that councilman with a new candidate? Could
somebody please explain that information? EDITOR’S NOTE: It would depend upon
where the councilman serves, and when he quits. Call back at 829-7242 and give
us some more details. Ask for Public Life Team Leader Todd Meyers. THE NAME
OF THE bookstore at the Murray Complex is Global Books, and it’s opened Monday
through Saturday from 10 to 7, and it’s run by a nice fellow by the name of
Mark. JACKSON TOWNSHIP residents, I guess, will have something else to
complain about now. They will be suing the Sun Company for the gasoline spill
and gas leaking into their wells. FOR THE WHINING Back Mountain resident,
welcome to the real world. You can run, but you can’t hide. I’M A WORKING
parent of two children and it’s that time of the year again where we have
parent/teacher conferences. I really would like to know how the school
districts understand that a parent can be there at 2 o’clock in the afternoon,
or 1 o’clock, or 12, or at 9 in the morning when we’re working parents. What
are we supposed to be doing? I’M HAPPY to see in your answer to the person
who inquired about obituary and funeral notice listings that you refuse to use
what to me is a very offensive term, “viewing.” I’m a clergyman, originally
from another part of the country, and I never heard that term used anywhere
but here. Thank you for using the term “calling hours,” which I use. COULD A
SAYSO message hopefully educate the small-minded who think that state-funded
projects save them tax dollars? Where do they think state money comes from,
the tooth ferry? I CAN’T BELIEVE the three local TV stations were calling the
latest snowstorm a “big surprise.” At 11 Monday night, the weather channel
started their winter storm watch scroll showing this area getting 7 inches of
snow. At 11:15 or so, the three local stations were still underplaying the
storm, saying this area would only get a dusting to an inch. Anymore, I will
just watch the weather channel. They always give the viewers the true story.
NOW THAT WINTER is here, please don’t forget to feed the birds. Have a nice
day. I’M DEFENDING DOGS. Do cats sniff out missing children or elderly who
have wandered away? Do cats sniff out drugs? Do cats also help the blind to
walk and to get around? And by the way, I buy licenses for my two dogs. Do cat
lovers buy licenses for theirs? I’d like to know this and I’d like to see
their comment. I’D LIKE TO COMMENT to Steve Corbett. He shows this big
picture of the police officer in the police car asleep and he basically
attacks him, bashes him into the ground. Now that police officer is wrong for
sleeping in that car, absolutely 100 percent. But Steve, I worked with your
father. Your father slept in a police car. Your readers probably don’t know
this, but Steve Corbett’s father was a state trooper. Steve Corbett’s father
later became a chief of police in a small municipality in the Harrisburg area.
And also, I saw him sleep. I wish I had a photo. EDITOR’S NOTE: Corbett says,
“But you don’t. My father made his share of bad judgments during his career.
But, nobody I know who ever worked with him has ever claimed that sleeping on
the job was one of them. Judging from countless arrests made, homicide
confessions taken, national crime-fighting awards received and heroic public
service rendered, the late Shamus Corbett remains the best cop I ever knew.
I’ll match his record with yours any day. When you’re brave enough to identify
yourself, give me a call.” THE PERSON WHO called in and said that I should
get a hobby instead of checking out the last names of the children whose
pictures are in the paper for their birthdays. You better tell their mothers
to get a hobby instead of … EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ll let readers fill in the
blanks. “WHY DOESN’T the state have liquor sales on Sunday?” Hey, do like
everybody else does, not only just with alcohol, with food, groceries,
gasoline or whatever, buy it the day before if you know they’re going to be
closed the next day. Hello~? It’s called preparing yourself. EDITOR’S NOTE:
We received similar calls. YOU KNOW YOU’RE from Wilkes-Barre if you pray for
snow, because the potholes will be filled in. THE MORON WHO said the smoke
smells from wood burning in Plains and Hudson. Why is it that the smell is
only on Wednesdays and Saturdays when burning is allowed? How about we get
into the 21st century? MY FRIENDS and I couldn’t get five seats together for
the sold-out Penguins game. Over 8,000 seats sold. So we all, in our 40s,
stayed home and watched. Thanks Channel 28 (for televising the game instead of
“Jeopardy.”) We had a great time with you. Also, Tom Grace, you’re great on
the radio. I’VE BEEN AN East Ender all my life and that’s 70-some years. It’s
amazing I just read in SAYSO that someone wrote in and said Tom McGroarty is
the best mayor since Mayor Loveland. That was nice of his father to do so.
Danny has always said that, to more people in East End than anybody else.
Isn’t it amazing that it hit the paper about Mayor Loveland. Thanks Dan, you
did a great job. MESSAGE FOR Steve Corbett. Steve, how did these LCCC salaries
get so insane, $61,000 for the Hanover Book Store? This isn’t Atlanta, Ga., or
Tucson, Ariz. – the average salary in this measly valley is $15,000 a year.
This is ridiculous. WHAT ABOUT BLUE Cross with their logos on the uniforms at
the arena? Blue Cross is one of the lowest-paying companies around here, and
now they’re blaming the senior citizens because they’re losing money. I have
had it with Blue Cross and all of the nonsense. Their CEOs are the ones who
milked the system, so why don’t they take the blame for what they did? And in
the meantime, why are they going to lay off the lower echelon employees to try
to make up for the money that they lost? “I SEE GAS prices are up again. I
sure hope all those large SUV owners are enjoying their trips in between gas
stations,” a caller said. My response: We have the $35,000 to buy these SUVs,
we could afford the gas. God bless all those little Subaru drivers, stay out
of our way. ARE WE GOING to have to hunt for the puzzle page every Friday?
It’s never listed on the front page of the paper with everything else.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We generally anchor the page inside of the Business section,
toward the back.