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Wednesday, September 25, 1996 Page: 2A
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… I hear on local news station that 300 jobs are coming to the area. I am
so sick and tired of hearing that. Look at NatWest and Lord and Taylor and all
these jobs that came to the area. They pay minimum wage for our people or a
dollar or two above. So when I hear the media say jobs are coming to the area,
I say yea, minimum wage jobs like we always getI just missed your
Dial-A-Score, I wish you get it back on there, and this time do it right.
Another thing I wish you change your topic on your call in polls in the
newspaper more often.
Yea, I would like to leave my opinion on that new downtown mall in
Wilkes-Barre. I think that’s a dumb idea. They are trying to revitalize
downtown Wilkes-Barre. What we need around here is more better paying jobs, we
don’t need another mall, we have enough malls already. And with all the stores
going out of business and empty buildings, all you see is stores for rent, and
stores going out of business. And another thing I think you should cover the
local Evergreen Raceway better than you do. When they have races there on
Sunday or Saturday you never see anything in the newspaper and when I talk to
the lady that runs it she says “Oh, we give them the information, but they
don’t put it in the newspaper.” So I wish you get more cooperation around
here. If we’re going to build new arena, that will be another dud that won’t
go over, because you don’t cooperate with anybody and try to work together.
First of all I would like to thank your paper very much for this
opportunity to have, you know, something like this where we could place our
opinion. I would like to say in reference to the article in Tuesday’s paper on
hand washing, by so many people who were ignoring this very important duty and
also they don’t realize that it causes many infectious diseases that are
passed on in this way. And especially the worst part of it, I’ve observed in
public restaurants, where waitresses, the workers actually coming into the
ladies room, walking right out, not washing their hands. That’s a great
inconvenience for customers and for other people, because we have to be
careful by opening doors with the paper towel to protect ourselves from people
like that. So I’m glad that was in the paper.
Hi, the answer to all the solutions that have been brought up on America
Who Stole The Dream, is, if a product or some material can be made in this
country, it should not be imported, period. That will bring employment back,
that will bring trade deficit down, that will bring jobs to anybody that needs
them, and so on and so forth, that’s the answer. If you want to my name is
Dominick Franchese. I live in Edwardsville, and I read your Times Leader and I
am very interested in what you were saying there. … I’m an old man, a 69
year-old man and I have been studying this problem as the things have
developed ever since I was a young boy.
Hi, I am a resident of the Back Mountain, and I was polling your paper
recently to see if there is any news in there about the opening of the
Dole-Kemp headquarters in Kingston, and I saw a very nice article in the
Citizens Voice and nothing at all in The Times Leader, not even a little
tombstone ad or even any mention that there was any kind of office. I’ve been
a loyal subscriber of The Times Leader for years and have refused many
attempts to change my newspaper, but if I don’t see something, at least, equal
time for the Republican headquarters here, even as a Democrat in this county,
I just think it’s unreasonable that you know an event goes on and nobody from
The Times Leader even covers it.
Hello, I’m a life long resident of Wilkes-Barre, in fact for 74 years. I
feel fortunate to be living in the city for many reasons. However, only one
thing brings me unhappiness. I’m happy for all the residents that would
benefit from all the new plans to revitalize our city, but I know of one, well
no, really two, that would be great for many, many people here. It would be so
great to have a downtown grocery store like we had in the 30s and 40s on
Public Square, called the Grand Union, or as an alternative why not another
Percy Brown type store. Even better, a grocery store and a cafeteria. Wouldn’t
it be great to eat in a cafeteria, such as Percy Brown’s, excellent meals and
a great social place to enjoy a meal with others? And we have enough fast food
places all over town and on the outskirts and no cafeteria such as Percy
Brown’s had. Healthy eating. If there was a vote on this it would be
unanimous, I’m sure. Please relay the message of this suggestion to those who
could do something to make it possible. This would surely add to
revitalization of the city.
A couple suggestions to develop the Wilkes-Barre mountains. First build a
wood stairway and walkway leading to the top of the mountain, where a overlook
platform could be built for overlooking the Valley. Build a ski slope to be
used for hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter and toboggan rides.
Hi, I’m calling from Forty Fort, and I’m calling on the forgotten end of
River Street in Forty Fort, we’re down at the dead end. We don’t get included
in any road construction. Our road is a mess, we never get cleaned up from the
snow. We do pay taxes down here at the end, but it seems everybody forgets
about us. Thank you.
Yes, we have a large problem in our area with people selling their food
stamps to others for money, and then they use the cash to go buy beer or
cigarettes or whatever else. I think a good solution would be … to give
these people plastic cards that has so much food stamp allowance on it, and
when they go to the stores they could scan the card like a MAC card. This
would eliminate a lot of the food stamp abuse in the area.
One of the most silly things your paper does is putting pictures of people
celebrating one-year anniversaries. Is this supposed to be some kind of
miracle because these couple’s stay together one year? Stop being so silly.
Can’t you get a different angle to sell papers.
Yes, I think Ross Perot should be included in the presidential debates.
Current candidates do not address the real problems facing America and the
world, such as the global environment, nuclear proliferation, starvation and
resolving ethnic conflicts. The current parties are too tied to special
interests, and do not discuss the issues. The candidates need to discuss how
to make a more effective and empowered United Nations to deal with these
problems.
I’ve just finished reading the Sunday papers, the report on the “Who Stole
the American Dream.” As usual, your Left leaning newspaper sounds like Task
and the uneducated, illiterate, ungrammatical responses that you got from the
proletariat. It sounds like a bunch of socialists writing. Everybody blames
the government, nobody wants to blame themselves for not being educated, for
not being trained. It’s pathetic, sounds like a bunch of communists.
In the September 20 and 22nd issue of the Expressline, on the last page,
The Times Leader has an ad for Sunday-only deliver for three months, which is
13 weeks of the paper. A special offer for $13, it says the regular price is
$22.75. I did the math, 13 weeks at a dollar and half, comes out to $18.50 not
$22.75. I don’t know if this is a misleading add or the math is done wrong, I
just wish someone would explain.
A suggestion to promote tourism at Harveys Lake. Set up a tour bus, running
from Wilkes-Barre to Harveys Lake. Try to get a sightseeing paddle wheel boat
business at the lake. Set up a fishing tour boats at the lake. Build a large
camp trailer park at the lake. A couple resort hotels. This should help out
with a tourism in the area.
Thank you for taking my call. It’s Monday morning, I read the paper
yesterday, and the people that call in are very important. I am not being a
cry baby, but I get $320 a month. I’d like to know if somebody could help me
support all the donations that are needed. Like the Bishop’s Appeal, the
American Legion, the veterans. How could I live on $320, and how could I
support all these organizations that need the money? The children just went
back to school and they already have all these fund-raisers. The tuition is so
high in Catholic schools, and yet, in the public schools, the taxes are so
high. How are we going to live the rest of our lives. I don’t have money to
pay my Blue Cross. Where do I go? who do I turn to? Why can’t we get answers
in the paper for that?