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Today's Letters: What will it take to fix Lancer Road?
Letters to the Editor
Published October 30, 2007
I am writing this letter because of the potholes in the road on a section of Lancer Road, off Shady Hills Road.
It seems that every year we get several deep potholes in the road, and every year it is the same thing: It takes several people calling the county to come and repair the potholes.
Two weeks ago my 19-year-old daughter was driving home from a friend's house at around 3 a.m. and she hit one of these potholes, blowing out a tire and damaging a tie-rod on her car, both of which needed to be replaced.
The following morning I called the county and again complained about the potholes.
About four days later, when the potholes still were not filled, I again called the county roads department to complain. This time I was told the county does not maintain that section of Lancer Road.
Later that afternoon a gentleman named Craig from Pasco County called and left a message on my answering machine, saying that section of Lancer Road is a B maintenance road, meaning it is privately maintained.
There are school buses that drive on this road five days a week carrying children to and from Shady Hills Elementary School. God forbid one of these school buses should hit one of these potholes, causing an accident and injuring one or several of these children.
If the county does not maintain this section of Lancer Road, but does further down on Lancer Road, then who does maintain this section of Lancer Road? Is it going to take someone getting hurt, or even killed, before the county or whoever steps up and repairs this section of Lancer Road?
Robert Steen, Spring Hill
Cat's beating deathsign of bigger issues
I have read with continuing concern about the beating death of a defenseless animal at the hands of a Hudson human.
There is a direct correlation between animal cruelty and child abuse/family violence. Why does the Department of Children and Families not remove these foster children at once as well as any natural children this person has in his custody?
How long before one of them does the unforgivable? What kind of model is this man for children who are already likely traumatized in some way? If these senseless acts are condoned by lack of action, then he's raising yet another generation of abusers.
I don't care what the reasons were that the deputy heard. Not one of them can or will ever justify this kind of violence against a helpless creature.
There are laws to deal with people like this. They are not enforced, and when they are, the offender is given, at best, a slap on the wrist or a nominal fine.
Before you vote for your next city, county or state official, find out where they stand on these issues. If you vote for them and they don't follow through, hold them accountable.
Linda Kloran, Hudson
Reality, not pledges, will help promote abstinenceOct. 26, guest column
Article on teen sexhuge dose of reality
This is the most realistic article on teenage sexuality I have ever read.
Every parent of teenage children should be required to read this.
W. E. Knause,New Port Richey
Reality, not pledges, willhelp promote abstinenceOct. 26, guest column
Claim of no sexual control insults kids
It was with sadness that I read this. The writer brings out a valid point that many children have too much time on their hands, but his assertion that children cannot control themselves and will have sexual relations is insulting to our younger generation.
By teaching anything other than abstinence, we are telling our children that we give up on them, that we don't believe they have enough strength of character to control themselves and put their efforts and time into something that will have a positive effect on their life.
Having sexual relations too early, protected or unprotected, has a price psychologically, emotionally, and physically. The writer fails to mention the devastating effects this has on our children.
As a principal of a charter middle school, we advocate for young men and women to respect their bodies and the bodies of others.
School-age children have too many options available to them, academics, athletics, music, theater, outdoor recreation, jobs, etc. to get involved with sexual relationships in middle school or high school.
Furthermore, it is the family's responsibility to set the moral values and limits with their children. The school system needs to protect those values.
Anything less is giving up on their future and our future.
Suzanne Legg, principal,
Dayspring AcademyPort Richey
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