A place to ride
Dear Editor: There have been many problems with skateboarders and bike riders in the local area this past year or so. Home and business owners get aggravated when we come around, and either tell us to leave or call the police to do it for them.
If there were local skate parks, do you think that we would choose to skate or ride in places where we get into trouble, or somewhere where it is allowed and supported? With that in mind, I would like to give my ideas on how to make it possible.
To fund the building of the structure and the ramps, rails and things inside, someone could take out a loan and charge an admission fee until it is paid off. In my mind that wouldn’t be very long, considering that most of the kids in this area either ride bikes or skateboard. I myself wouldn’t mind paying a few dollars to have something to do in my spare time, and I doubt if the other kids would either.
I don’t think that it would be much of a problem to find a place to locate it, because where I live in Grindstone, there are buildings that are not used, and are exceptionally large. There are also large areas behind our baseball diamond that would be perfect.
I hope that everyone does everything in their power to help the kids in their community. I would like to thank you for reading this letter, and again please try to help.
Charles Skinner
Grindstone
The writer is an eighth-grade student at Frazier Middle School.
Cavanagh taken to task
Dear Editor:
Just when I think Sean Cavanagh can’t possibly say or do anything to further embarrass himself and Fayette County, he makes his recent ludicrous comments about Controller Mark Roberts.
He said that he would do everything in his power to make sure that Roberts was not re-elected. He also claimed that Roberts is unethical and hard to get along with.
Keep in mind this all comes from a man who physically assaulted former commissioner Harry Albert, considers convicted madam Susanne Teslovich a close, personal friend, and for two hours four times each month sits at the commissioners meetings badgering the other commissioners (mostly the chairman) like a grade-school child because he obviously never learned to play well with others.
Could the motivation for his animosity toward Roberts be that Roberts is so thorough that Cavanagh fears he will uncover dealings that he does not want the public to know?
And, Mr. Cavanagh must consider himself a mighty powerful person if he actually thinks he can control 70,000 registered Fayette County voters. (Maybe he thinks that Fayette County is a dictatorship.)
So, Mr. Cavanagh as far as your ousting Mr. Roberts from office, give it your best shot. But, let me remind you that you barely received enough votes to secure the third commissioner’s seat in the last election.
It seems to me you need to focus all of your efforts on your election not the controller’s, because I’m sure your character-revealing comments have opened the eyes of many people who voted for you in the last election
Sylvia Hickey
Uniontown