OpinionDecember 9, 2004
Speak Out 12/9/04
Try more sports I AM a parent with a young child in the Cape Girardeau School District. I am concerned with the sports programs in these schools. Every elementary school has a nice gym. Why are we not using these gyms to get our children involved in sports? I wish we could get a basketball league started with all these schools involved. I think this would help kids stay out of trouble. Maybe this would help some kids stay off the streets...
Try more sports
I AM a parent with a young child in the Cape Girardeau School District. I am concerned with the sports programs in these schools. Every elementary school has a nice gym. Why are we not using these gyms to get our children involved in sports? I wish we could get a basketball league started with all these schools involved. I think this would help kids stay out of trouble. Maybe this would help some kids stay off the streets.
Clean little town
I JUST drove around Chaffee. I failed to see any of the problems mentioned in Speak Out. Chaffee, like so many other towns in Swampeast Missouri, does have a drainage problem. But, without major funds there just isn't much that can be done about that considering this area used to be a swamp. This is a pretty and well-maintained town. Our officials follow the law and do not let old cars sit very long. If one has slipped through the system and you see it, then by all means call city hall. Try following Chaffee's city motto: Smile.
Use turn signals
I WOULD like to comment on the failure to use turn signals in Cape Girardeau. Turn signals are installed on vehicles as a safety feature to alert other drivers. Suddenly putting the brakes on and swerving off the road is not an effective way to maneuver through town. I don't know how many fender-benders I've almost had because someone didn't use a turn signal. Please make it a point to get into the habit of using turn signals again. It will save you, me, the police and our insurance agents from a headache in the long run.
Thanks for lights
I WANT to thank the construction crew on the new federal courthouse for putting up the Christmas lights on the unfinished building. I was pleasantly surprised.
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Finding solutions
THE OLD-TIMER who said it was "time to take control" made some very good points. I am part of Generation X and do not necessarily agree that old-timers need to control of everything, but I can see the problems we have. I know their must be solutions to these problems. We need better-paying jobs. We are becoming a society of those who have everything and those who have nothing.
MoDOT leadership
THANKS TO Scott Meyer for leading the Missouri Department of Transportation in this area. I enjoyed reading about his singing at the First Friday coffee. MoDOT here has certainly improved under his leadership.
Confusion at park
MY WIFE and I were traveling from Jackson to Cape Girardeau on U.S. 61. As we turned into North Cape County Park at the newest intersection to see the Christmas lights, we were taken by surprise at the left-turn and exit lane. It guides traffic exiting the highway into the passenger side door of any vehicle waiting to enter the highway to go east. We managed to maneuver this obstacle only to immediately be led into another at the intersection crossing the westbound lane. It had a right-turn lane that directs you head-on into the westbound traffic. We negotiated around a car in that lane that was backing toward us after its driver had been fooled by it. Happy holidays, folks, and drive carefully when entering the park to see the lights.
Shallow thinking
THIS IS in regard to the Heidi Hall's column about American women. She used the example of "The Bachelor" on how desperate women are to snag a husband. On the contrary, that show only serves to reinforce the image that the world at large has of American women in general: They want husbands all right. A rich husband is what they are looking for. I know that the column is written with a tongue-in-cheek tone, but her snide comment about Monday Night Football and why men looking for women overseas are "undesirable" is precisely the attitude that turns men off. I guess shallowness runs in both genders.
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