Letters to the Editor

February 28, 2010

Letters to the Editor

Anonymous WEATHERFORD DEMOCRAT The Weatherford Democrat Sun Feb 28, 2010, 05:30 AM CST

Bravo to the Weatherford Democrat!

Dear editor,

Bravo to Sara Ortega, Libby Cluett and The Weatherford Democrat for the Dec. 16 and Feb. 3 stories celebrating the Garner I.S.D.’s trip to and triumphant return from the 2010 Junior Theater Festival (“Garner students receive national recognition” and “Garner students honored at Junior Theater Festival”).

These young artists may have earned an award and other recognition at our national festival, but they received a more important prize back home: Support and encouragement from their community.

Please join me in giving a standing ovation in celebration of the parents, educators, businesses and community members across your community who are doing their part to help students learn important life lessons through the experience of putting on a show.

And, this year, let us all do what we can to help students to explore the arts, whether it be attending shows, donating time, money, resources or expertise to productions or just complimenting our young artists and educators on their accomplishments.

Timothy A. McDonald

Founding Chairman of iTheatrics,

New York City

Entertainment in Weatherford

Dear editor;

I’m really sad to see Weatherford has pushed away something very important to our town. Weatherford has been lacking entertainment for many years, and as for drinking on South Main Street, I’m sad to say growing up here, drinking has been going on for more than 30 years and is still happening in parking lots on South Main, as well as many others throughout our city.

Take the time to consider that having entertainment venues here could help keep the drinking in establishments, keep the trash inside and have “security staff” to control peace within the establishments.

Also having businesses like this, we can keep our tax dollars here and not give them to our neighboring communities. I, too, do not want gentlemen’s clubs in our city, and we can keep them from coming by rewriting the petition to include the sale of alcohol in establishments that don’t have to sell the required 51 percent of food to other venues (excluding gentlemen’s clubs). I feel without this restriction, other venues may see our city as a place to locate, keeping our tax dollars here.

Several of you travel weekly to Fort Worth or neighboring communities for your entertainment. Weatherford doesn’t even have a movie theater here, it’s in Hudson Oaks. So what is there for us to do here at home? We need our tax dollars to stay here.

I want to be a big part in continuing to watch our city grow with the times, yet keep it a great place to have a family where we all can have entertainment. We can have places that are safe here in our hometown.

Let’s work together to keep out tax dollars at home and a safe place to live.

Shirley Stanford,

Weatherford

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