THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, February 9, 1996 TAG: 9602080164
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 07 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Medium: 74 lines
Sports coverage lacking
I am writing in regards to middle school sports. My first concern is directed to whomever decides which games do or do not count in the official standings. In each sport, the teams play games both in and out of their division. Yet only the ones played against schools in their division count. Therefore, a team can lose three games (outside their division), another team only lose one game (but it's within their division) and by current rules the team with three losses would advance to the city championships.
Clearly the best team is not being represented. The two teams with the best overall record should advance to the city championships. If these out-of-division games don't count, why play them?
My second complaint is this newspaper's lack of coverage of middle school sports, yet they are never featured in any articles. Not only did Lynnhaven Middle School's boys soccer team go undefeated this year, but they went the whole season without allowing a goal to be scored against them. They shut out every team, including Princess Anne Middle in the city championship game. These boys worked hard to achieve this and should get the recognition they deserve.
L. Isenberg
Virginia Beach
Saving life takes courage
I am an emergency medical technician with the Princess Anne Courthouse Volunteer Rescue Squad. I am writing in response to a Dec. 22 article about trying to save a baby's life by performing CPR.
First, in today's society we seldom see strangers volunteer by getting involved with a complete stranger's problem, let alone being able to maintain composure well enough to attempt to perform a skill that you have no formal training on. In the medical profession, with trained personnel and equipment, we have patients die no matter how hard we worked with them and how many bags of tricks we tried to use. After a period of time without breathing and a heart beat, a person will not survive. The hardest calls for any emergency medical provider to work involve children. Most providers will have second thoughts after working a call where a child did not survive.
After reading the article further, you mentioned that the baby was diagnosed with SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). These are calls that are really hard, because a young person dies for some unknown reason. I am just writing to let you know that you should not be down on yourself or second guess yourself because the end result was not most favorable. Instead, you should be proud because you had the courage to get involved.
John Carey
Virginia Beach SPSA can stuff its fee
SPSA wants a 50-cent fee per house for curbside recycling? This is just another case of greed. The city will definitely pass this fee on to each residence, increase it each year, and slap a tax on it.
I should be paid for saving, sorting, bundling, loading and carrying the blue bin to the street. SPSA wants to charge people for doing this extra work!
My time is valuable. I was doing SPSA a favor by giving them my recyclable material, which they sell.
This fee request has trashed my opinion of SPSA, and there is no recycling it!
I'm dumping all trash, including aluminum, newspapers, glass and plastic bottles, in the large black city trash can and making one trip to the curb. No more extra trip and work with the blue bin.
Recycling fanatics with adverse opinions to mine can ``stuff it'' in the blue bin!
Blanche Upton
Virginia Beach by CNB