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Tuesday, July 28, 1998     Page:

SAYSO
   
I’m calling about the concert review by Alan Stout. Maybe if he was at the
concert and knew who actually performed … he said MYA performed, she wasn’t
even there. This idiot doesn’t know what he’s talking about, that that was the
best concert I ever went to. Why were the fans cheering? He just didn’t know
what he was talking about. He’s probably a fan of alternative music and maybe
you should find a more variety of people to give their reviewsEditor’s Note:
Stout assumed the billing for the concert was correct. Uncle Sam & MYA was
advertised as an opening act. Uncle Sam was there. After your call, Stout
tracked down MYA’s publicist at Interscope Records. She said MYA was no longer
on the Boyz II Men tour. As for your other comments, Stout stands by his
review. But he’s glad you had a good time.
    Our laws are a real joke. The man accused of leading a drug ring is free on
$75,000 bond. He’ll go out and make that in one day now and pay his bond, and
he’s probably out there laughing at the general public.
   
I’m calling to say that in The Times Leader, all the youths in the
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area are portrayed as being negative, and 12-year-old’s
saying they’re going to blow each other away, and all that, but I never see
any coverage on positive youth in our area, like Students for Free Tibet or
any of those organizations by students and youth that are positive. People are
going to have a negative image of our area’s youth if all you put across is
negative portrayals of us.
   
Editor’s Note: We have written about the group you mention, but would
welcome a positive story idea. Call 829-7242 and ask for Mark Guydish. Thanks.
   
I think the Pennsylvania American Water Company is really getting
ridiculous. Now they’ve got the added distribution system improvement charge,
the rate increased. Let them take that out of expenses, out of their profits,
not to increase the cost of their repairs to the customers. Why do the
customers always have to pay for theirs and not the ones who are making the
money? Let them take it out of there. They are raising these bills so high,
where’s the public utility commission at? Sleeping, or are they investors in
the same company?
   
My comment is for Larksville taxpayers. Don’t we deserve, for the safety
and our tax-paying dollars, to have full-time police officers in our borough?
Our officers put their life on the line for the safety of the people, but we
can’t afford full time? We can hire more part time. Doesn’t that say we just
don’t want to pay benefits? It’s really sad and insulting, since we put their
lives in harm’s way all the time. Also, who chooses what streets are important
to receive street signs? Aren’t all the streets important in the borough?
Well, we’ll see who lives where when the signs go up, won’t we? As a taxpayer
in the borough, I think we all deserve better.
   
I’m calling about the article about the Harris layoffs. I know someone who
works there, and they said that this is a big joke, because Harris is not
telling them anything. Their jobs are in jeopardy. They won’t say how many
people are getting laid off, and the people want to know where is the union,
that their union is letting them do this, after they pay them $5 and some
cents a week.
   
I would just like to thank officer David Lewis and all of the Hanover
Police department. My daughter was recently a victim of a terrible crime, and
they sat with us, talked with us, assured us that everything was going to be
all right, and I would just like to say thank you. It was a terrible thing to
go through. And thank you so much for taking your time.
   
I’d like to know from Mr. Jeff Namey and the Wilkes-Barre school board,
whatever happened to the proposal for Wilkes-Barre Area School District,
having them wear uniforms in this coming school year, the ’98-99 school year?
I think it would be a good idea. I think Mr. Namey and the school board should
try it. Have them wear uniforms starting in the elementary schools and see how
it goes. I think a lot of parents would love to go out and buy uniforms,
instead of all this other expensive clothing. Could you get an answer from the
school board on this?
   
Editor’s Note: The school district will not implement a uniform policy for
the coming school year, according to Wilkes-Barre Area School District
Superintendent Jeff Namey. “But the idea is still on the table,” he said.
Namey plans to bring the issue before the school board in the coming months.
If a decision is made to support a uniform policy, school officials will tap
students and parents to help develop it.
   
I’m calling about the EDT system for food stamps for welfare recipients.
I’m so tired of hearing how they’re getting this, getting that, getting
houses, getting free food, getting everything, everything you can possibly
need. What about the working people who can’t even afford to buy their own
home or to have a nice home, maybe you have to live in a small apartment? This
is ridiculous. Stop giving them, giving them. Make them get jobs like
everybody else.
   
I was wondering if there is anything that can be done to stop the
Pennsylvania American Company from raising their water rates? Water is a
necessity. I think something should be done to stop these raises in the rates.
   
I was driving down Northampton towards Washington Street, and the lights
were out, traffic was heavy. On the corner by the gas station was a policeman
sitting in the car. He didn’t get out to direct traffic at all. Everybody had
to take their chance. Why? Also, this mayor wants a theater and all that put
down here on Pennsylvania and Northampton. Why? There’s enough theaters
around.
   
I’m calling about the lady that is complaining about the welfare people
that stink. Did you ever think that every dog smells their own hole? My
daughter is on welfare and she doesn’t stink.
   
I’m calling in response to the so-called bank teller who was thrilled about
the EDT system and how she can put her air freshener away. I’m a single
parent, and when I was on welfare, I was a clean and immaculate person. My
child was always clean and immaculate, and I know several other people who are
on welfare that are clean and immaculate. So, she should watch what she says
about people who struggle to make ends meet.
   
I think Bernie Olson should turn around, get a realtors column from out
where he lives now and have it sent to the Luzerne County Courthouse so Tom
Makowski and Zawatski and the rest of them could see what’s available for new
homes out of this area. I don’t understand and never will understand how they
can let things just keep going on and the people just sit back and allow it to
happen. But, I’ll give you a good idea. Maybe you should make a recording of
your own and take the song “Ghostbusters.” Instead of using the word
“Ghostbusters,” I’d say that about 92 percent of the things that I’ve listened
to now, put Times Leader in there and they should play it continuously inside
the Luzerne County Courthouse. Maybe then our so-called public officials and
Luzerne County commissioners from Red Jones, the minority commissioner, to our
two majority commissioners, will understand that somebody is watching them.
“Ghostbusters.”
   
I just got done reading the article on the Lake-Lehman letter that was sent
out concerning the insurance, health insurance, for the teachers. Someone has
to, in this state, challenge, some school board has to challenge the teachers
union to the extent of giving something back eventually. Starting with health
insurance would be the one. There’s very, very, few, if any companies today,
which pay full insurance coverage. So, this is one way. I live in Hanover and
I pay $1,000 a year for school teachers, and I’m over 70 years old. Something
is wrong, somewhere.
   
I’m calling in regard to the people complaining about open burning on
Denison Street in Forty Fort, Swoyersville, and West Wyoming. I recycle all my
cans, bottles, paper, newspaper, only. I burn junk mail, old magazines, cereal
boxes, milk cartons, juice cartons, drink cartons, pizza boxes, gift boxes and
wrap, take-out food cartons. What would happen at the landfill if all this
paper got on fire