THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 23, 1995 TAG: 9504210222
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Medium: 71 lines
Before all the smoke clears concerning the resignation of Arthur L. Dwyer from the Chesapeake City Council, there's one question that I haven't seen answered in your paper: Why is health insurance being supplied to the Lewis family after Sgt. Ed Lewis was fired from the Chesapeake Police Department?
From what I've read in your paper, policy was set some years ago regarding this very issue. That policy was broken in this one and only instance in granting health insurance to this one and only family.
Rather than reporting so ambitiously on personal things Mr. Dwyer did or didn't do with Mrs. Lewis, let's see some reporting on the person or people who made this unprecedented, generous provision possible for the Lewis family at the taxpayers' expense.
I'm more interested in what the taxpayers are paying for now than in what Mr. Dwyer may pay for later.
Juanita Harris
Wenger Road Pleasant experience
We hear so much complaining about problems in dealing with local government agencies, I wanted to share a pleasant experience that I had recently with the Taylor Road branch of the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue in Chesapeake.
I had gone there for assistance in preparing my Virginia state income tax return and was helped by Ms. Sandra Poole.
Ms. Poole was extremely pleasant and knowledgeable. She prepared my return and explained things to me that I did not understand. She even called me at work later that morning to let me know that in reviewing my return, she had found that I could receive an additional $80 refund.
So, to Ms. Poole, thank you very much for your help.
When so often we feel like we are being brushed aside and that no one has the time or patience to help us, I enjoy knowing that there are hard-working individuals who do their jobs proficiently and make people feel as though they are not an intrusion on their busy day.
Kathryn R. Deters
Calverton Way Spoiled program
Because we have a grandson who is deaf, my wife and I took him to see the play ``Children of a Lesser God,'' put on by the students at First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach some time ago.
The students and others are to be recommended for the countless hours of hard work in their preparation for this performance, which they enacted so well. But what a pity that such a well-orchestrated program had to be spoiled by the unnecessary references to sexual promiscuity and the obscene and vulgar language.
I live in the real world, and I don't have virgin ears, but I was appalled that the students were allowed to use this, especially on school property, and offended at the taking of the name of my God and my Christ in vain, not once but numerous times.
Strange, is it not, that I paid to see a play in a public high school, supported by my tax dollars, only to hear the name of my Lord ``screamed'' out in a vulgar way, when the same school system, unless I am misinformed, would not permit students or any other person to take pat in a school function or ceremony and offer a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ?
Fred W. Bates Jr.
Pastor
Cava Free Will Baptist Church by CNB