THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 22, 1995 TAG: 9509200182
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Medium: 76 lines
Chesapeake sinus sufferers, rejoice!
Saline solution is available from our taps. How accommodating can our city be? Fill your squeeze bottles. It works as well as a swim in the ocean to clear those blocked sinus passages.
Just don't drink it. To paraphrase my 9-year-old daughter, Jenna: ``It tastes like fish spit.''
Tim Scherer
Forest Cove Drive Concert hall needed
On Sept. 2, my husband and I enjoyed an evening of superb music under the sky and stars of Chesapeake at the Virginia Symphony outdoor performance in Chesapeake Park. We brought our picnic and lawn chairs and enjoyed the program immensely.
It is a shame that Chesapeake Park is the only suitable venue for such a concert within the Chesapeake city limits.
I strongly urge the City Council of Chesapeake to approve the funding for a concert hall in the city of Chesapeake, as envisioned by the Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission. Our city is large enough to warrant the expenditure and every dollar spent on such a project and more will come back to the city in the form of tax dollars from money spent on restaurants, etc.
It will also make our city look more desirable to prospective companies considering a move to our location. Many large companies are looking at what communities have to offer their employees in terms of the arts as well as other forms of entertainment, schools and health care.
A councilman voting in favor of this project will certainly have secured my future votes.
Let us put a stop to the constant flow of Chesapeake citizens to Norfolk and Virginia Beach to attend concerts. Give us a facility to house such productions and have the citizens of our sister cities come to Chesapeake sometimes for the arts.
Jeanette R. Winsor
Hardwick Circle No more recycling
Well, I think enough's enough, already!
We've been great supporters of the recycling programs of the Southeastern Public Service Authority. We've kept quiet when the truck drivers drop some cans or plastic bottles on the ground and just leave them. We've called the police when people came by and took the aluminum cans out of the bins and put them in their cars or pickups.
We've kept quiet when pickups went to every other week. We went and got our own plastic containers to use. We've crushed, stomped on and washed out cans to help. It's the only thing Chesapeake's water is good for.
But enough's enough. We received a notice on Sept. 12 stating that they want us to separate everything - glass, aluminum, plastic and newspapers. Well, I called SPSA and spoke with a person who would only give her name as ``Brenda,'' and she explained to me that if we used an extra bin or box of any type, we had to separate everything. They couldn't be in the same bins. No exceptions.
I told her I wasn't going to buy any more bins or boxes to do the sorting. She said if I put it all in the same bin, it wouldn't be emptied.
I told her to come pick up my ``blue box'' and get it off my property. I want nothing more to do with this. I'll dispose of my recyclable waste myself, whatever way that may be.
I thought SPSA needed these items to be profitable, but I reckon not.
At least maybe I'll be able to save a little shoe leather (from stomping) or water (which I can't drink). This Commonwealth and the City of Chesapeake have a long way to go.
J. Martin
Chesapeake by CNB