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capers: BOE sells pig in a poke
By
CAL BEVERLY
Editor
By the time you
read this, the decision will have been made. The Fayette County Board
of Education will have approved what I call a modified "balanced"
calendar.
My
heritage as a Murphy
By
BILLY MURPHY
Laugh Lines
More and more today,
people are interested in their roots. With everyone being labeled in
some way, Asian-American, Native-American, African-American (I guess
if I had a dog it would be canine-American), I just feel a little left
out only being American-American. So, I did some research to discover
my heritage.
A
truth in the midst of Catholic scandal: Jesus will never betray you
By
FATHER ROGER LANDRY
The headlines [have
been] captured by the very sad news that perhaps up to 70 priests in
the Archdiocese of Boston have abused young people whom they were consecrated
to serve.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
March
for Jesus May 4 to feature fair, concert
In conjunction with
the National Day of Prayer, which will be held May 2, there will be
the annual Celebrate Jesus Day parade and fair on Saturday, May 4, at
Heritage Park in Fayetteville.
What
is this obsession with race? It describes nothing
Two of your readers
were very upset with a McDonald's commercial that seems to slight "white"
people in the hope of attracting "black" people to buy their
product.
Celibacy
and priestly scandals are nothing new for Roman Catholic Church
The press has the
right to condemn the deplorable acts of sinful priests and demand public
justice. But it has no grounds to attack the priesthood, priestly celibacy,
or Catholic doctrine.
Fayette
recreation facilities: Improve, expand them
The Fayette County
Board of Commissioners has now approved the conduction of a Recreation
Needs Assessment Study. The study will consist of telephone interviews,
random surveys, and public hearings. Conducting this study is a long
overdue first step in improving the recreation opportunities and facilities
in this county.
County
needs public buses
I am interested
in moving to Peachtree City and what surprised me was the lack of any
public transportation.
Mayor:
Hwy. 54 plan will prevent eyesore stores
Some people are
telling me not write letters to the editor because "mayors are
not suppose to do that." I was glad to see our State Solicitor
Steve Harris and State House Representative Lynn Westmoreland writing
their own letters in recent issues of the newspaper. The people have
a right to know the views and thoughts of their elected officials; otherwise
we end up with no direction and $350 million dirt-hauling deals.
City
Hall falling short in addressing PTC traffic
In the continuing
saga of issues in Peachtree City, this week's edition is traffic, more
specifically traffic problems. During last year's mayoral campaign much
was made by our current mayor about who was to blame for the current
and pending traffic problems. Where does that leave us today?
Talk
to seniors at Center to get accurate picture
I'm Miriam De Pena,
activities assistant and driver of Fayette Senior Services for two years.
I consider myself an experienced and mature individual, capable of discerning
the management of any business or organization, especially, those related
with customer or educational services.
Pursue
better service, more modest center for seniors
I and several other
employees did not ask to be approached by seniors at the Center, distraught
from circumstances that obviously were causing them sleepless nights
and potential health issues. If these seniors felt comfortable speaking
to their direct superiors, why didn't they do so? Let me try to answer
that question. Many feel intimidated by management there and they have
specific evidence to support this feeling.
Whoever
stole the Euro exhibit, please put it back
We had a project
going at the Peachtree City library and someone stole from the exhibit.
F'ville
roads are shamefully littered; let's all do better
Every time I drive
down just about any road in Fayetteville or Fayette County, I am disgusted
by the amount of garbage that is on our roads.
Beyond
Brownies, Senior Girl Scouting offers challenges
Aren't you too old
to be a Girl Scout?
Turner,
the animal pariah
Allow me to respond
to William F. Fielder's letter asking "Why no squawk from PETA?"
regarding Ted Turner's bison subsidies, bison hunts and wildlife killing
("Ted Turner has a few causes beyond buffalos" Feb. 13].
Cats
are still getting help
All of us with RescueCats,
Inc. appreciate the support that the public has given us during the
past month. We want everyone to know that we are still operating with
foster homes instead of at our facility, but on a very small scale.
Older
drivers wish for public transportation
For Sally [Satterthwaite],
thank you for speaking my mind at the commissioners' meeting [in support
of GRTA bus service]. I had thought I was the only one in Fayette County
who was hoping for public transportation.
A
penny here, a penny there
[Carolyn] Cary is
somewhat mistaken about the purchase of a $110 pair of shoes during
the March sales tax holiday.
Novice
learned a lot of lessons from Hamrick, including the art of objectivity
[The way I look
at the world of news reporting has suddenly changed. Objectivity is
no longer objective. The man who wrote of other people's sadness and
successes is no longer around to write of the sadness our community
is feeling or how silly it is that a community is mourning somebody
"so insignificant in the bigger scheme of things." Dave Hamrick,
the first news reporter I ever dealt with in the real world after graduating
from college, is gone.
'Sports
guy' remembers getting hired by Hamrick
It was some time
around March 1993 when I got a call from Dolly Purvis, my old boss at
the Clayton Sun, where I had been sports editor before the Sun Newspaper
Group went under. She told me that a sports editor job had opened up
at a brand new paper in Fayetteville, and that I needed to contact Dave
Hamrick. I was pretty bummed about the newspaper business at that point,
having been kicked out of the army, where I started out as a military
journalist, then watched my first civilian newspaper go bankrupt.
Dave
committed to fairness
I was so saddened
to learn of Dave's sudden death. That is a dreadful loss to The Citizen,
to the entire community and to the world of journalism.
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