While I applaud The Citizen for featuring the Senior Girl Scouts who achieved their Gold Award, I want to inform The Citizen that they need to look beyond featuring only these select girls, and notice that in fact, recently, several outstanding girls have also attained Girl Scouts’ highest achievement.

I writing this email to you to notify you of my opposition of the proposed commercial development across from the Wilshire Estates entrance and the Senoia Road link to Holly Grove Road.

Mr. Mayor, about 18 months ago I met with you to discuss your positions regarding the Holly Grove Road area, with the potential impact development would have on our neighborhood and the surrounding area.

When they came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

When they locked up the Jews, I remained silent; I was not a Jew.

“You cannot expect this property to sit full of trees forever; that is just unrealistic,” said Mr. Rick Lindsey, former PTC attorney and now attorney for Columbia properties, at the March 12, 2007 Planning Commission meeting.

As lifetime residents of New York state, our move to Peachtree City — one of Money Magazines and CNN’s top ranking places to live — was not job-related or out of necessity, but that of choice.

The Wilshire and surrounding neighborhoods are batting in the bottom of the 9th inning with two out and the bases loaded and just need three runs.

As a resident of Peachtree City of one year and a neighbor in Wilshire Estates, I have to say it is very disturbing to think there is going to be a huge commercial development going in across the street from our homes.

Thanks to Emily Baldwin for her articles highlighting the Girl Scout Gold Award achievements of Kelly Randolph (my daughter), Cherise Quamme, Evelyn Larson and Sarah Mudrinich. As pointed out in her articles, earning this award is the highlight of the Girl Scout journey, and is the culmination of hours of planning and hard work.

I enjoy Trey Hoffman’s letters; however, he apparently watches way too much FOX News and consequently his knowledge of the Plame affair is riddled with errors.

Before making a decision about whether or not Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil should be required for 9- to 12-year-old girls and teens, let’s look at some information from Merck, the CDC, and the American Cancer Society (ACS).

I suggest that you do some research before printing articles such as the one on palm oil in the March 21, 2007 edition of The Citizen.

I am shocked to hear Chief Murray say, ”We are not going to hire short-order cooks with G.E.D.s,” in reference to prospective candidates.

On the average nearly 1,500 people die every day in the United States from one form of cancer or another. The Bush administration for the second year in a row is suggesting cutting the budget for the National Cancer Institute. Therefore it is more important than ever that we as individuals try to raise as much money as possible to find a cure for cancer.

What is happening to the Peachtree City I wanted to raise my kids in? What is happening to my neighborhood here on South Ga. Highway 74 when a developer wants to destroy everything I came to this area for by building a big-box regional shopping center within one city block of my neighborhood? What is happening to us all when we let the almighty dollar trump the safety of our kids and quality of life?

Peachtree City is growing. It’s inevitable. We as citizens should participate in the planning as much as possible to help shape that growth.

The March 14 headline, “TDK is key to getting OK for big Coweta project,” says all we really need to know. That simple banner paints an image in our minds which confirms the worst thoughts we were able to conjure up about the cursed developments proposed in East Coweta and the umbilical cord that gives them life — TDK.

I thank you in advance for the use of your forum to allow me to delineate more fully the content of my letters dated Feb. 20 and March 13. (I apparently did not clearly communicate through the use of sarcasm.)

I live in Sandy Springs and I wish my local elected officials were more like state senators Ronnie Chance and Mitch Seabaugh. Those two are standing up for the right of emergency room patients and they should be applauded.

I am very passionate about health care in our area and in the state of Georgia and I have read with interest Dr. Cox’s recent letter to the editor. I have a different perspective.

Watching Congressman Westmoreland on CSPAN during the Valerie Plame Wilson hearing was surreal. First the Congressman remarked how there was more press present than at the baseball hearings. He evidently doesn’t appreciate that Mrs. Wilson worked on grave issues of national security concerning nuclear nonproliferation in Iraq and Iran.

Thank you for running the article on the deadline for Veterans Memorial Bricks in your Feb. 21 edition. I began receiving calls relative to this article almost as soon as it hit the driveways in the county. I have received several completed orders and several phone calls on the subject.

As you are probably aware, there is a cultural arts deficit in Fayette County. Our non-profit organization is working hard to alleviate the visual, literary and traditional folk art part of this deficit.

Well, this is one of those letters that will probably portray me as an emotional babbler but it’s been a while and I had to answer Mr. Hedlund’s comments with a, “Say what?”

Republicans are horrible, evil, conniving, mean-spirited, Nixonian neo-fascists who want to impose a theocracy and throw all the gays, blacks, leftists, and Muslims in prison. Therefore, it’s okay to do anything necessary to take them down. By any means necessary, if you will.

I have been out of town for about a month. When I got back, my husband and I took our little granddaughters to Line Creek Nature Preserve.

In case you are wondering, the massive membership warehouse store or Lowe’s, complete with “sea of asphalt” parking, has already been approved across from the Publix on Georgia Highway 74 South.

The following letter was sent to Councilwoman Cyndi Plunkett regarding her recently printed comments questioning the “credibility” of the community survey developed by PTC’s Comprehensive Planning Committee and distributed to a randomly selected group of city residents. The survey was also made available on the PTC website to other residents.

After reading your articles in the March 7, 2007, edition of The Citizen of “Proactive annexation ahead for PTC?” and previous articles written by Mayor Harold Logsdon and former Mayor Steve Brown concerning Peachtree City growth, I am curious as to what the long-term vision is for PTC’s growth?

Senators Ronnie Chance and Mitch Seabaugh have sided with the greedy trial lawyers against my patients’ access to specialists in the emergency department.