Wednesday, June 13, 2001

I am writing in response to a letter in The Citizen a couple of weeks ago entitled, "Teenage vandals making life miserable."

I think that we all are asking the same questions and I would like to echo the question Ms. Kadel asked, "Who is responsible?"

I am a resident of the Wynnmeade subdivision and while we do not experience as much on the teenage vandalism issue, we certainly are experiencing the cars that young people drive through our community with the music so loud that it makes your house vibrate, pictures turn on the wall and the dishes rattle on the shelves.

For a while they would drive back and forth all day and part of the evening. Some live in the neighborhood and a lot of them don't. Every 10 minutes or so it would just be plain old loud. Obviously they aren't or they haven't been made aware of the noise ordinance, so they proudly go through the subdivision, windows down, sitting low in the cars and take it upon themselves to provide the whole neighborhood with this noise they call music.

Myself and a lot of other residents here are tired of it. Wynnmeade isn't a place where anyone and everyone can come and do what they want anytime they want.

Wynnmeade has had bad things said about it, but unless you live here, you don't know. It has been stereotyped and called the stepchild of Peachtree City many times. Most of us work very hard here and are willing to try our best at keeping Wynnmeade a decent place to live.

After reading articles in some of the papers, I feel more now that all communities have their problems and ours are no worse than others in the city. Ours may stand out more because we are not the plush and scenic part of Peachtree City. But we're here, and most of us care about Wynnmeade. After all, this is our home.

Our hats go off to the police department for helping us clean up what's wrong here. They're here when we need them. The rest is up to us.

In closing, I think that it's time we all become responsible in making sure that whether it be kids, adults, anyone who chooses to be unlawful by damaging property to imposing and disrespecting someone's right to live in peace, are made accountable for their actions.

If we don't, then we're all in trouble. There won't be anywhere left to call a decent place to live.

Merrilyn Arnold

Peachtree City

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