Red Line (Oct. 9)
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A male caller mentioned a message last week about the dry grass at the fairgrounds. He then asked, “have you ever driven by on Wednesday afternoon to see what the parking lot looks like? That is what Madera is going to look like 25 years from now with the people we have living in this town.” He mentioned walking into two or three (named) large retail stores, “these people don’t even know how to control their kids. They just tear everything up and destroy other people’s property.”
A lady had a comment for the woman who complained last week “about the stores being all cluttered. It is certainly not the employee’s fault,” this week’s caller said, “and certainly not the manager’s. It’s the parents who let their children run wild. They open boxes. They pull thing off the racks and the parents do nothing to stop them. Don’t blame the store. They are doing the best they can with limited staff. They don’t have enough to follow every child around and pick up after them.”
“There is a new store,” said a lady caller, “on Madera Avenue (Highway 145). A guy is selling windows and mattresses right on his front lawn.” The caller “wondered if the city has given him a license to do this.”
A woman who “was reading the sports page of Oct. 2,” about a gymnastics meet. The photo supplied to the Tribune, did not show the top gymnast at the meet and the caller thought we “should show her picture as well.”
A lady “concerned about the teachers’ increase in salary,” said, “it is not half as much as the administrator’s and not half as much as they deserve.” She said she “put five kids through the school system and I would not be a teacher for all the tea in China for what they have to put up with. And they have the parents to put up with, too.” She suggested, “parents get behind your teachers and stick up for them.”
A woman wanted to thank the City of Madera and the Police Department. “In less than 24 hours the graffiti on the back wall at the end of our street was sandblasted off.”
A man called “regarding the blue cans. I’m all for recycling. However, somebody is making money on this and I think we should be given credit off of our bill instead of having it increased. If we’re not going to get some kind of credit,” he continued, “I’m just not going to bother putting anything in that blue can.”
A man who said he was “ a subscriber who enjoys Mo’s Musings and Bill Coate’s articles,” said, “the readers of Emo’s column used to enjoy the full length of the left side of the page in reading his article. You publicize him winning an award for his columns then split the column, sometimes in half, and move it to another page. Give us and Emo back our rightful full length on his page.”
“Is there a color code for this town?” asked a lady. “You might as well call it rainbow Madera by the looks of the downtown and that bright green building opposite of (the former) Lucca’s. It is really too bad this town has changed so much in these years. I guess it’s love it or leave it,” she concluded.
“I really felt bad for my wife and child,” said a man who attended the Old Timers Day in Courthouse Park. “We were having so much fun until they had to use the bathroom. It was so bad we couldn’t use it and had to leave.”
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