- April 18, 2024
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+ Local government is spending to the point of insanity
Dear Editor:
We are spending millions on a park in the middle of a swamp. We are going to spend $150,000 to repair the roof on a stable. We are going to spend $800,000 to improve County Road 305. We are going to spend $1,525,258.17 for a south-access road to the airport. No one knows how much we are spending on unnecessary and little-used bike paths.
The County Commission wants to hire a $100,000 project engineer. The county is also going to have a workshop to give everybody a raise because they haven’t had one in three years, and they have to pay 3% of their retirement, and they are going to lose good employees. Commissioner George Hanns is enthusiastic about the workshop.
This is just the part of the iceberg that is above the water; the part that is hidden beneath the water has to be gigantic!
Now, according to a letter in your paper, a Mr. Anderson wants to have a year-round indoor ice-skating facility built in Palm Coast.
I would like to propose building another facility: a giant rubber room. We need it. These people are bordering on insanity!
Please note that I have not mentioned the School Board, which wastes more money that all the other entities combined. They are completely beyond hope; trying to reason with them or change them is in the hands of the Lord. Pity the children.
Douglas R Glover
Palm Coast
+ Reactions against student attire exposes judgmental people
Dear Editor:
I have a child in a public middle school in Palm Coast, and from what I read in the information that comes home at the beginning of every year, there are no gang-related shirts or attire allowed; there are no midriff shirts allowed; there are no shirts allowed with vulgarity; and hats aren’t even allowed to be worn unless it is designated hat day.
If any of this occurs, the student’s parents will be called, and they will need to bring replacement clothes and/or be sent home. I drop off my son each and every day, and I have not seen any child wear anything inappropriate. I am there and I see them.
If kids these days want to follow the trend of wearing their pants below their butts, all the power to them. In fact, the style is actually to have boxer shorts underneath the pants so they show. I don’t like it, but I’m not going to stop a whole generation from expressing themselves because I don’t like it. I’m over 40 now, and I used to actually wear men’s boxer shorts to school as my actual shorts. It was the style 20 years ago. I used to shave my head, too.
How about letting people be people?
Are you saying kids who express themselves with crazy attire will grow up to be bad and jobless? I used to dye my hair a different color every month and still do, and I’ve been employed since I was 16.
One reader wrote how “it is time they learn that to live in a civilized society requires one to look civilized.” I disagree. I know plenty of business people who lie and cheat and steal everyday, and they dress pretty darn nice.
I see politicians on TV and the news every day lying about their taxes and cheating on their wives, and they dress pretty well, too. I don’t teach my son look at someone to determine who or what that person is about; I teach him to get to know that person based upon their thoughts and ideas. I don’t care how many tattoos a teacher has or whether or not they dress like bums; I care how much attention they pay to their classes.
I want these teachers to teach my son, not give him moral advice and set clothing examples. When it comes time for my son to go on his first interview for a job, we’ll have that discussion with him. When are people going to stop looking at other people and summing them up in one glance?
And worse yet, looking at kids, doing what every generation has ever done — expressing themselves (which is completely natural, by the way) — and blaming the parents! I think that is called being judgmental, and in my household, it is a bad thing.
Fran Silveria
Palm Coast
+ More questions than answers in the Fischer case
Dear Editor:
After reading your front-page story about John Fischer’s wife’s possible hit-and-run, I was left with more questions than answers. Did Mrs. Fischer stop after the accident or keep driving? The article states that there were “at least two or three individuals that identified Mrs. Fischer as being at the scene.”
Am I the only one who is confused? Why didn’t they report her to the 911 dispatcher? Perhaps these individuals saw Mrs. Fischer there, but arrived on scene after the accident, and therefore did not know that Mrs. Fischer was the one who hit Ms. Pecqueur? If Mrs. Fischer did indeed stop, then she would have known she hit a human being. Why didn’t she call 911?
Leaving the scene of a fatal accident without reporting it is a second-degree felony punishable by as many as 15 years in prison.
So, why wasn’t Mrs. Fischer arrested and charged by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office? It’s been three months since the accident, and we’re waiting for the State Attorney’s Office to press charges? It seems to me like there was more than enough evidence on Nov. 12 to charge Mrs. Fischer with, at the very least, evading responsibility and leaving the scene of an accident.
Why do you suppose John Fischer called Sheriff Fleming and not 911? Calls to 911 are recorded and are public record. Are calls to the sheriff’s home recorded? I doubt it.
If my wife came home and told me that she hit an animal, I might check the car out, or I might just do nothing (assuming she hit a squirrel), but I wouldn’t wait 12 hours, and then call Sheriff Fleming at 5:30 a.m. at his home.
Steve Wonnig
Palm Coast
