Wednesday, March 6, 2002
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Wednesday, March 6, 2002 |
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PTC officials supporting a teen center? What a joke! Subject: Peachtree City's rampant rise in youth crime, spreading throughout Fayette County. Your headlines scream each week: Guns, marijuana, theft, kids from 15 to 20 are being incarcerated at record levels. You have published articles and supported me when a teen center was an obvious need in county. No boys or girls club, no United Way support, no effort at all now. Then Feb. 20, you published the letter form Dan Tennant whom I have known and endorsed for over four years. His article: Do something for teens, his vision, his buy-in from current mayor What a joke. The city turned me down flat in 2000 stating [that a teen center was] not their concern: Too much input required, too concerned over what community would say. Believe me, as someone who has done volunteer work and run a teen center in his spare time, I know it takes a full-time coordinated effort of many entities in the county. Fayette County business is arresting kids for revenue. The entire judicial system is designed to do just that. Your paper need to make an expose on this issue and not just write about pooper scooper issues or closed meetings or the whiney letters that proliferate on your pages. The city was planning on contacting me for consulting information about teen clubs. Good luck. I hope some thoughtful journalism can be generated on this issue. Richard Thompson Peachtree City
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