Comments on: Letters to the Editor: April 13

By: Juniper

Juniper — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:45:42 +0000

Ms. Nuelson,
How would the gate have stopped the Marvin Creek resident that ran into your mailbox? We all know that it was a teen driver, from inside Marvin Creek, that hit your mailbox. A scary tragedy for sure! – but please stop your neighbors from obsessing over one elitist, hypocritical and transparent solution.
Here’s the truth. No one likes your solution because it’s elitist. It’s saying to every local in the surrounding neighborhood (notice I wrote local neighborhood because we are supposed to be one COMMUNITY!…) that Marvin Creek residents DESERVE to go through but no one else does. We ALL pay for your roads. If you want a FAIR, unoffensive solution, close it off completely. I bet your neighbors won’t want to do that. Why? Because THEY want the convenience and I’m betting you do to. Stop looking for special treatment. If it’s really about the safety of families, close off the road to everyone. If Marvin Creek residents want the convenience then it stays open for everyone — simple! The children can’t be all that important if Marvin Creek resident still want the state-maintained roads for themselves, but want to keep everyone else out. You’d think we were living in Krakow! This solution, my dear, is elitism and hypocrisy at it’s best!! And what no one is telling y’all is that it is a grossly anti-social and rude measure on the part of Marvin Creek who apparently think their excrement is odorless.

By: Melinda Nuelsen

Melinda Nuelsen — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:39:45 +0000

Marvin Creek residents have shown in 2 traffic studies (2008 and 2011) that we have a severe traffic problem that has emerged with the growth that has taken place in the last 7 years. On my street in Marvin Creek (Kindling Wood Lane) we have almost 20,000 cars per month. That’s just Kindling Wood not Wheatfield that people use to race on. WE are residental and my road is very curvy. We have had accidents-.-one major. I still carry the pictures because it is one of our elementary bus stops! We have gone to the council many times. They come back with no solutions. We asked for a gate and the administrator told us to go ahead. We worked with them for months and now the Village Council has gotten involved. What for? Why are they doing this now? Canterfied Creek said that they need us for convience but it takes just as long and is just about the same distance to go to Marvin School road. We just want to keep our kids safe. They can not play safely in the front yard. Adults are dodging cars so that we can mow the yard. And the buses are honking to stop cars from hitting children when they are getting on and off the bus. They, the bus drivers, have their lights on and their arm and stop sign out. This campaing againist Marvin Creek is a disgrace. We all need to responsibly and constantly be looking for useful and thought ou plans to help the all the citizens in this area to contend with the way our village and surrounding areas should be planned out in the future and with the emerging traffice patterns that are taking over. Thank you. Sincerely, Melinda Nielsen 704-843-2208

By: Steven Alameda

Steven Alameda — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:06:03 +0000

As usual Representative Horn does not have his facts correct. In his Letter To The Editor (printed in the April 13-19 2012 Union County Weekly) he fails to mention that the funds used to purchase the smart boards came through the fundraising efforts of the local PTA’s in each school. In other words the parents of each school bought the smart boards for the classrooms. This is in addition to the supplies which the parents of the district he represents purchase each year for classrooms using their own personal funds because the State, County and School Board knowingly underfund the schools on the western part of Union County. It is the legislature’s job to pay the teachers using our tax dollars. And pay them what they are worth, they are our greatest asset. Maybe Representative Horn should actually spend some time in the schools of Union County to better understand the personal commitment parents make in volunteering their time to fill positions which are vacant because of the lack of funding by the state and county governments in addition to committing their personal resources to make sure our schools stay at their high achievement level.

Also, as usual, Representative Horn fails to provide a solution to the school funding problem. His response in the aforementioned Letter To The Editor, as well as in the recent town hall meetings he has been attending, is to blame the previous legislature for the problem and say that we need to fix the system. Not once has Representative Horn provided a single idea on how to either fund our schools now or fix them in the future.

To use Representative Horn’s own words “before I was elected I was a simple turkey farmer”. Maybe this “simple turkey farmer” is in over his head and we need to elect someone to represent us in Raleigh who understands what is going on in his district and also someone who provides potential solutions to the problems we face, not someone who provides the usual political rhetoric. I write this letter knowing that the Representative will probably resort to personal attacks on me, as he does with anyone who disagrees with him.

Respectfully,
Steven Alameda
Union County Resident

By: Omar keslowski

Omar keslowski — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:10:47 +0000

Ken, your comments are just short of laughable. If it wasn’t so serious, I would laugh. Is the solution always more money and more taxes? Where does the madness end? The board of education controls allocation and until they put teachers first, I say don’t give them a dime more because they will just give administrators more raises and send their pawns (teachers and parents) back to do their dirty work for them. It is a pathetic scheme and will continue until some puts the blame where it belongs….the board of education. Don’t give them a pass!