Fair change cuts into charity
This is a letter about the Fayette County Fair Board and Mr. William Jackson, president, regarding the June 26 statement of the admission change to the entrance into the fairgrounds this year. After reading the entire article, I found nothing regarding the people who volunteer their services to work at the food stands. I am a charter member of the Old Trails Lions Club and we have been at the fair for the past 42 years. Of these 42 years I have never missed an opening night. In past years there was never a problem for our members to come through the gates. Our Lions dress was our word that we were working in our stand, but in recent years it has become a problem for our members. It will present a big problem because the ticket takers won’t listen to our members telling them they are working in our stand. None of our members have time to go out and ride the rides and attend the exhibits because of working in the stand.
We have as a group approached the fair board and asked for some relief for those who work in the various food concessions, and we have suggested a gate where these workers could be admitted but the board turns a deaf ear.
We don’t use this money for personal gain. We, as all Lions Clubs, use it for blind-related programs such as the Fayette County Blind Association, Pennsylvania Eye Research, Leader Dog for the Blind to name just a few. We donate to 10 different blind-related projects, plus we pay the Fair Board $775 to have our beautiful building that we built some 3 or 4 years ago on your grounds. It seems the $775 rental space wasn’t enough. Two years ago we were presented with a $169 electric bill, and last year we were given billed $120 for electric that we were supposed to use in 10 days of the fair.
If the Brownsville Lions Club and the Fort Necessity Lions Club pay the same amount of rent for their space as we do and for electricity, the total comes to almost $2,500. Of this total, many blind people could be helped.
We come out to the fairgrounds to make a few dollars to give away and to have to pay $8 per head admission adds up and cuts into the donations given to our projects. I would like to ask how much money will a man, who brings his family to the fairgrounds, have left to spend on food after paying this admission.
I can only speak for our Lions Club, but I am sure that other organizations have the same problem with admission for their workers as we do. Maybe some pay their help, but the Lions just can’t do this and give away money. It just doesn’t work that way. Surely the board could come up with a solution to this problem, that is if they want to address the problem.
Many people have asked, where does all the money go that is taken in at the fair? Rental space alone amounts to a huge sum of money, plus the gate admissions. It would seem as though the people of Fayette County deserve to have a breakdown of what is derived from the fair and where the money goes.
J. Robert Sangston
Old Trails Lions Club
Uniontown
Is Hardy after more money?
In light of recent revelations that Joe Hardy plans to allow the introduction of 3,000 plus slot machines to this Nemacolin Woodlands Resort located in rural Wharton Township, I am asking that you sit down and take a good, long, hard look at this guy’s life purpose.
Prior to the eve of the county primaries you endorsed Joe Hardy along with Donald M. Miller for the Republican ticket. Now we can understand your support of Miller due to his record of family, neighborhood, local, county and national “community consciousness.” Many good things Miller has done to serve his fellow man. Please restate just why it is you chose to put your faith in Joe Hardy.
Is it possible that he pulled the sheep’s wool down over your eyes, not revealed all the cards he holds in his hand and not told anyone why he really wants county-wide political power?
Whatever my instincts and intuition are worth, I think Joe is just another one of those addicted old dogs who cannot learn new tricks. Someone so completely under the power of capitalism that no new “community consciousness” can take root and grow in him.
Editors and staff, tell you readers the truth, did the Herald-Standard realize at the time of your endorsement of Joe Hardy of his hidden plans to bring slot machines to Fayette County? If so, why did you not introduce this important issue as part of your reasons for endorsing his candidacy for county commissioner?
Now, it looks to us as if your are either in collusion with this agenda or that you were not aware yourselves of all the facts concerning Hardy’s true ulterior motives for desiring a seat on the board of commissioners. Indeed, it is painfully obvious to many of your readers now that Hardy wants political influence in order to use the “system” to impose more of his personal brand of capitalism upon Fayette County.
I admit my instincts may be in error here, but I doubt that Joe Hardy wants to be involved in county government for any other reason than to feed his addiction for money making.
We, community of Christian saints, must now arise, take back the vote of confidence given to Joe Hardy in the primary elections and throw our support to Angela Zimmerlink for the protection and conservation of our community’s health, safety, life, resources and property that are the responsibility of the county commissioners.
Jim Lilley
Markleysburg
Dog shooter troubles Denbo Heights
A cruel, disgusting gutless, inhumane, sick sneak stood across from my home and shot my little poodle dead in her driveway. Berry was out only 10 minutes when the scum shot her in her head. A few minutes later it would have been my granddaughter lying in the driveway as my daughter takes her out that way to catch her school bus. When she went out she had to see her family pet lying there with a hole in her head. Prophesy was crying and asked do they shoot people?
This is such an outrage knowing that people with firearms are shooting at my home. How gutless and crazy are you? We now have to install video cameras in front and sides of our home because people sneak around in the early morning and late night hours so they can remove my cats and murder my dog.
Our animals and the grandchildren are not safe. It is so unreal that this idiot can shoot at our home, kill our pet and get away with it. We just thank God that the 6-year-old was not in the driveway. What is the firearm ordinance in Centerville?
The police officer stated the way Berry was shot and laying and no other blood anywhere it had to come from across the street.
We called the police five minutes after it happened. End of story for Berry I guess. End of story for a child? Makes us wonder. Scares us. What’s next, my Doberman because she is big and barks? Or maybe my three birds because they chirp? Or maybe the baby when you hear him crying? Or the 6-year-old when she makes noise playing in the front yard?
Do we have to live in fear not knowing when someone feels like shooting or trapping or poisoning one or our animals?
People down here are above the law; they are allowed to shoot any type fire arm, burn on Sundays, shoot wildlife out of season, spray chemicals all around to kill my cats, and brag and laugh about it all.
Carolyn Burk
Denbo Heights