THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, January 28, 1997             TAG: 9701280007
SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A14  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                            LENGTH:   20 lines

HOCKEY AND MALL ARE NOT FOR TOURISTS

Why not sell Nauticus to the people on City Council who bought it the first time? These are the same people who would not put it to a referendum for the taxpayers to vote on because they were so smart they knew what they were doing. Seems like the eyesore on the waterfront that cannot make money was not part of the Rhinos' pitch to have a NHL team in Norfolk.

Hockey season is just six months long. How do we taxpayers of Norfolk get the place filled the other six months of the year? Most tourists come to Hampton Roads to go to the beach in the summer, not to a hockey game in the middle of winter, or an upscale mall.

MONTEY R. ELDRIDGE

Norfolk, Jan. 21, 1997