What about the stink?
In the Sunday, Aug. 10, edition of the Herald-Standard a full page ad by Mr. Joe Hardy was printed for all Fayette Countians to spruce up and make our communities attractive for our upcoming visitors that will be attracted to the 84 Golf Tournament. We all want to enhance our areas and want our visitors to leave with positive thoughts of Fayette County. Uniontown is our county seat and should set the example for others to follow. We could wash and clean all the buildings, paint them, clean all the sidewalks and streets, put up welcome banners and be gracious hosts. However, there is one big problem, not visible, but really a problem.
Have you traveled on Route 40 coming into Uniontown from the mall? Did you walk or ride in with your windows up or down? Really, it doesn’t matter. Try to smell fresh air in this corridor. It’s impossible because of the odor from our sewer system. Common sense knows the sewers need flushed by storm waters.
I give Blair Jones credit as he publicly stated being against removal of storm water from the sewers.
Are we to live with this stench forever? I ask our city fathers, state and county officials to respond. There must be a better way.
Rudolph G. Kochis
Uniontown
Hardy’s ad offends
Mr. Hardy’s recent full-page ad in the Herald-Standard newspaper requesting that we all stop our normal duties to our families and personal affairs in order to mow, pick-up, hose down, paint over and smile is really hard to swallow coming from a person running for county commissioner who promises that he will be able to cooperate within the framework of our community leadership.
My first impression of his big golfing fete reeks of a self-centered lack of consideration for how much sacrifice will be demanded of his neighbors. Many have no other choice but to compete for travel space when his 77,000 golfing fanatics begin to clog up Route 40 and its connecting arteries. School closing and re-scheduling should not be overlooked as to the extra dangers they may create in the lives of parents and children alike. The suffering, which his golf tournament is bound to impose upon this rural population, is not necessary, but seems to be something, which merely profits Hardy, and his family and political friends.
If making a good impression is so important for a successful tournament, he should send letters to every citizen along with a check to cover any added expense or to compensate for the inconvenience which the tournament is going to impose on peaceful, law-abiding people who just happen to have the misfortune of living close to where he is living.
There are better, more considerate ways of getting us all on board and supporting his ideals for improving the image of Fayette County. Through an open exchange of views and concerns, Hardy will be able to accomplish worthy endeavors.
I find his methods boastful and vain, without considering the freedoms and dignity of fellow human beings. Could it be that along with the English Lord title, which he had to buy from England, Hardy got the idea that he now had a right to treat neighbors as landless serfs to be pushed around and intimidated?
Fayette County is going to be all right with or without his leadership and bad manners. We have plenty of affordable recreational opportunities within easy driving distance where we are welcomed for the ordinary folks we are, and we have worked hard to build ourselves sufficient secure homes and bank accounts without bowing down to an English Lord with the social skills of a wart hog.
S. Raymond Pohaski
Uniontown