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Scanning
the news just after Passover....
[Editor's
note: The column below has appeared in The Citizen for the past five
years the week following Easter.]
'Kitty
pig' makes indelible impression
By AMY RILEY
Contributing Writer
Several weeks ago
my family had the privilege of entertaining Butterfinger, Mrs. Fairrel's
third grade class pet, for the weekend. Butterfinger is a long-haired
guinea pig and a magnificent animal.
Spamming
the globe: April fools
By
BILLY MURPHY
Laugh Lines
This spamming edition
is in honor of all the idiocy in the world, but especially noted in
April.
What
I think of sales tax holiday Bah, humbug!
By
CAROLYN CARY
ccary@thecitizennews.com
At the risk of offending
thrifty shoppers, I have to decry the recent sales tax holidays. If
there's one thing I've learned in this world, it's pay taxes now or
pay them later.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Westmoreland
sides with Cox on local bill
I usually don't
respond to editorials, but I needed to respond to this one.
Cox
position is not a new one
Cal, I'm surprised
at you. Everyone who follows Kathy Cox's politics knows that she has
always required not demanded that local governing bodies thoroughly
discuss and unanimously support legislation that they propose. This
isn't a new position for Kathy.
GRTA
buses: What's the harm?
Sallie Satterthwaite's
article about our commissioners' refusal to participate in funding bus
service in our county was right on target.
Hatcher
demonstrates his ecumenical love for all people
John Hatcher is
my friend but that is more important to me than the words I can write
about him.
It's
past time to just say no to higher local sales taxes
You don't know whether
to laugh or to cry. My inclination was to laugh, of course, when I read
in the AJC (March 27) that the Georgia House had voted 94-25 to permit
Fulton and DeKalb Counties to hold referendums for a 1 percent sales
tax increase to pay for sewer improvements. There's no denying the importance
of sewers that work right. It's a worthy cause.
Fayette
Senior Services is being unfairly criticized
I would like to
express my concern regarding the recent allegations of abuse of the
seniors at the Friendship Center and the supposed nonexistent services
as stated by past employees and past center attendees.
What
is our money being spent on?
Our seniors are
being treated unprofessionally by the management of Fayette Senior Services
(FSS) day program.
African-American
pleased with senior center
I'm an African-American
and I live with my daughter, and I'm 83 years old and I've been coming
to the Friendship Center for a year.
Allegations
can't be substantiated
I've been attending
the Fayette Seniors Center in Fayetteville since October 1999. I am
utterly shocked and appalled at the articles some have written for The
Citizen against the senior center. At this time I am unable to substantiate
any of these accusations to be true.
Forget
'balanced,' reinstate the 'traditional' calendar
What ever lies that
have gone half way around the world in the form of year-round school
with all its aliases (including the so-called "balanced" calendar),
it's time we looked firmly at truth and consequences and squared things
up for the best possible value in terms of long-term effects as the
goals most appropriate to meet the needs of public education.
Getting
back to basics basic cable feels good
I feel good. I recently
called AT&T Broadband and told them to reduce my cable service from
Expanded Basic ($42 per month) to Basic Cable ($12 per month). I did
it for two reasons.
Should
be way to deduct for continuing cable TV outages
Excerpt from letter
sent to Peachtree City authorities:
Parking
ticket turns into felony perjury conviction: The truth will come out
On Jan. 31, 2001,
Charles Toombs received several tickets from Deputy Hammond of the Fayette
County Marshall's office for improper parking. His vehicle was blocking
a lane of traffic, and he had previously been warned for such behavior.
How
soon the candidates forget campaign promises
I was amused to
read in The Citizen that Peachtree City councilmen Rapson and Weed assigned
a high priority to paving the Meade Field parking lot for one quarter
of a million dollars. (A case can be made that a crushed stone parking
lot is far more environmentally friendly than an impervious surface
that will serve to increase pollution in our watershed). As former Illinois
Senator Everett Dirkson once said, "A thousand here and a thousand
there and pretty soon you will have some serious money."
Wellman
never was an official mayor candidate
Fred Wellman's letter,
in response to my letter, was conspicuous by what it did not address.
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