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Food set out for postal drive wasn't garbage

Saturday morning, we put out the trash, as usual, at the far end of our driveway. About 40 feet away, we also put out nearly $22 worth of food for the U.S. Postal Service food drive. Because it was too heavy to put on the mailbox, we put it under the mailbox on a good wood and metal stool (cost about $25).

The Waste Management crew stopped at the mailbox and picked up the stool and food, and then moved the truck to pick up the trash. We drove around to find the garbage truck and explained what happened, and were told we shouldn't have put the good stuff so close to the trash.

Forty feet away and right under the mailbox doesn't seem all that close to me. I wish I could have put out another bag of food, but that was what we had on hand. I wonder how many others put food out for an excellent cause, only to have the trash man throw it away.

Major cleanup can return subdivision to respectability

I purchased a home in 1982 in Virginia City. It was a great place to live. I raised my children there, with loving and caring neighbors. So quiet you could walk the streets and not worry.

Today, the cars bomb down the streets, not looking for children playing. Don't know how they go so fast with the potholes in the road. The county just keeps putting more tar in them, instead of fixing them right. The dogs and wild cats are left running with no licenses and shots.

Now they have security patrol. They're great people, but people need to open their eyes and look and see what has happened. Clean your yards. Basketball hoops go in back yards; we poured concrete for ours. Call animal control to pick up animals. Turn in drug users. Remove vehicles with no licenses. Even if you have to help your neighbor clean up, make Virginia City subdivision the place people used to like to live in.

There's a lot of great people in there. Don't let the bad ones chase them away.

Stupid vehicles made by an un-American company

Re: On the trail of off-road excess, May 16.

Yes, the typical premium vehicle driver is going to be a Republican. After all, isn't that what Republicans are all about, being in the upper two-thirds of the economic spectrum and not caring about what it costs the rest of the us less fortunates?

Molly Moorhead's article only lends credence to the fact that a Republican took us to Iraq under the guise that he wanted to topple a dictator when in fact he only wanted oil for gas to be used in stupid vehicles put out by an auto manufacturing company that I would call, in these times, un-American.

Where do disabled people go if a hurricane strikes?

There have been many stories in the newspapers and on the television news/weather about getting ready for the coming hurricane season. Last year, I went to the government building in New Port Richey and could not get decent information about taking my wife to a shelter if we have to evacuate.

I told them that my wife was on oxygen 24/7 and would need electricity to run her oxygen/concentrator and her nebulizer. I checked with the motels along U.S. 19, and none have their own generators.

What am I suppose to do if told to leave my home? There are a lot of other people in the same situation. They can be seen every day at churches, restaurants, grocery stores, malls, and on and on. What are these handicapped people to do?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Information on hurricane shelters can be obtained by calling Pasco Emergency Management Office at 727 847-8137. A draft list of shelters for the 2005 hurricane season is available at www.pascoemergencymanagement.com/shelters.asp

Grae is right to reject more impact fees for schools

Re: Grae's gamble not a good bet for schools, May 13 editorial.

Port Richey council member Phyllis Grae is on the right track in voting no to higher impact fees for schools.

I believe we just raised our sales tax from 6 to 7 percent. A surplus in state taxes this year in the billions of dollars tells me we have the money for educational purposes. Her thinking is not misguided, but right on.

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