March 06, 2008 05:26 pm
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Park idea foolish as ‘snake mittens’
I’m writing in regards to the article in the Tribune pertaining to the development of parks on the site of the former Continental Steel plant.
First of all, my father worked at the steel mill for over 30 years. He never drank or smoked, yet he died of cancer at the young age of 56. That was 1986.
My guess is that, if you checked around, you would find most of the people who worked at the steel mill didn’t die of natural causes (old age) but, instead, died of cancers, heart illness and respiratory illness, etc.
So, saying that brings me to this point: Anyone who considers putting parks or athletic parks on that acid-smoked, chemical-drenched land is as foolish as making snake mittens.
As I aforementioned, check to see the illnesses the mill has caused. Then, if you want to put a park there, go have your loved ones put some dirt in their mouths or drop food on the mill grounds and eat it. Why do this? Because these are the things that happen at parks.
Kids drop food and still eat it. I know I ate plenty of dirt playing sports at many athletic parks.
I am neither a politician nor a businessman. I am by no means perfect, but I’m no miscreant either. All I know is, I sure wouldn’t take a chance with somebody’s well being to prove if that property is safe or not.
I miss you Dad, Mom and Brad!
Michael Trine
Anderson
Spend tax money with common sense
Mayor Goodnight has informed us, the taxpayers, of probable job cuts and possible benefit reductions to city employees, as well as probable reductions in services provided by the city.
This is understandable in the present economic situation. Perhaps not an easy thing to swallow, but the reality is you can only spend what you have.
With this in mind, my question to the Howard County Council, which allocated $15,000 for a study the taxpayers neither want nor can afford, is when will the tax and spend with absolutely no consequences end?
Dave Trine stumps for the Continental site like a born-again Christian for the Holy Land.
My grandfather retired from the Haynes Stellite plant at the corner of Lindsay and Park that now sits empty, and I’m sure no one else expects the city to develop this parcel to make me feel better. The grandstanding sounds more like a big business Republican than a working man’s Democrat.
And I have to wonder which developer is contributing to which politicians?
If elected officials cannot be trusted to spend our hard-earned tax dollars with common sense and respect, they should be reminded in the next election at the polls.
Lisa Marie Sims
Kokomo
Our future depends on paper readers?
I could not believe my eyes when I read Suellen Reed’s letter to Sound Off Feb. 29. Of all the educational books in all libraries, Reed, the IRSA and HSPA recommend a newspaper, and to start children reading them young.
Why? Is it educational to open any newspaper and read about parents killing their own children, beating, raping, murdering them? And of all the bad examples by sports figures? All the drunks, jails and prisons full? Drugs?
The mudslinging between politicians is also educational. I sure am one to disagree that our future depends on our children reading this junk.
Ruth Avery
Russiaville
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