Random Thoughts: Scary SUV driver
About 10 a.m. Monday, while at the traffic light at the intersection of Alps Road and Atlanta Highway, I saw a woman driving a white SUV while talking on her cell phone and breast-feeding her baby. Now, that is scary!
Margie Hammock Place for tennis
Regarding the Banner-Herald's Wednesday story headlined "Not enough money for land and courts/Tennis center plans hit funding snag," detailing how Athens-Clarke County needs to find land the county already owns as the site for a new sales tax-funded tennis center, how about placing the tennis courts adjacent to the rapidly renewing Newtown neighborhood?
Just across the river from the greenway, immediately southwest of the county water works, is a 25-plus-acre county-owned inert landfill with more than 2,000 feet of river frontage. This site has ready access from Martin Luther King Drive and College Avenue via a Cleveland Avenue entrance.
It's a no-brainer; stop the in-town dumping, clean up the site and create a park with 18 tennis courts less than a mile from downtown.
Carl Hawkins Stop animal cruelty
It's heartbreaking to witness an act of animal cruelty, but each of us has the power to stop to it.
Any time you suspect animal abuse, call your local humane society, animal control or the police. Whether it's a neighbor's pet being treated cruelly, cats and dogs mistreated at a pet store, or animals at a breeder's facility being kept in filthy, crowded conditions, if it's animal abuse, it's against the law.
In difficult economic times, the most helpless among us are the first to suffer. In many cases, this includes animals, who can be abandoned and left to starve.
Innocent animals are depending on us to be their voice. Visit the Web site www.aldf .org for information about what to do when you witness animal abuse or neglect, how to work effectively with your legislators to improve laws for animals, and more.
Andrea Kendall
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