THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, September 7, 1996           TAG: 9609060017
SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A14  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                            LENGTH:   23 lines

SENIORS AREN'T THE PROBLEM

I find Mary Heinricht's letter concerning the golf course and seniors housing quite upsetting and somewhat misleading.

My husband and I are looking for a retirement location in a community where there are active seniors and a golf course. I'd rather not be rolled later into a typical Virginia Beach ``assisted living'' home and wait to die.

The idea of a senior community is very appealing, especially with a golf course accessible. So far as pollution, destruction of wildlife, etc., are concerned, it is not seniors I see throwing litter everywhere, riding jet skis without regard to sea life (dolphins) and, in general, abusing nature's environment.

If the golfing seniors' community is not developed, this family of taxpayers will start contributing in North Carolina or South Carolina.

JUDITH C. MITCHELL

Virginia Beach, Sept. 3, 1996 by CNB