THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, October 8, 1995 TAG: 9510060214
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 65 lines
Now that school is in full swing, I would like to address a potentially deadly problem.
Day after day, I see people fail to stop for the school kids on our road or stop so close to the bus that the children are at risk when they cross the road.
This is a reminder: Saving 10 seconds on your way to work or while running an errand is no excuse for jeopardizing a child's life.
Please be alert when driving. Our kids deserve to be safe.
Ginger Aquino
Battlefield Boulevard Destroying vegetation
Well, they have done it. Destruction and construction workers have succeeded in destroying every last bit of vegetation between the lanes on Interstate 64 from Indian River Road to I-464. Every day they are out there digging, filling, plowing, scraping, smoothing and then watering to make sure nothing ever grows there again. Now they are busy destroying all vegetation on both sides of the road, all the way up to people's back yards.
I wonder where all the trees are planted to replace those destroyed. I wonder where all that wonderful black dirt came from that they are using for fill. I wonder what will happen to that big hole where all that dirt came from. I wonder how much of the brush destroyed was used there for fill.
It's enough to make an old man cry!
Jim Morrison
Virginia Beach There's no pony
In considering Medicare, Medicaid, budgets, deficits and tax cuts - which alone are unthinkable to people who really understand what we have to do in this country to come partly to our senses - I am reminded of the story of the psychologist who was conducting an experiment with two small boys.
In one room there was a boy with luxurious toys, lots of different kinds of games and goodies to play with. This boy would play with a toy or game for awhile, then throw it away or smash it, never achieving any happiness for more than a little while.
In another room, the psychologist observed his second experiment, where a little boy was shoveling a huge pile of horse manure with great expectations, saying, ``There's gotta be a pony in there somewhere!''
Like the little boy shoveling hard, which may be our wish if we listen to the majority party in Congress and those of the minority party who support increases in Medicare premiums not slated to go where the money really belongs, but for a tax cut, we are leaving all kinds of people without any real security source, including children who really need help.
If we listen to politicians say, ``Trust me,'' with no real hearing, no real representation, we will soon discover ``there ain't no pony in there,'' but just a great big pile of more stuff to shovel while the real values are being tossed away or smashed.
It's time to insist Congress give decent hearings and facts to the people ``because there really ain't no pony in there.''
It's up to you!
H.J. Crawford
Suffolk by CNB