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To the editor: I must ask the same question that my mother
submitted to the Lincoln Courier this evening [written May 21]. Why
... isn't anyone speaking up
about the obscenity that culminates every Saturday night when the
cars start at the racetrack (INSIDE TOWN)? Is there anyone else that
questions what good this does for our community? I have yet to see
hoards of spectators coming to town for said races.
Even if there were (some) people coming to town, and most likely
giving nonlocal businesses like Burger King and Steak n Shake some
more business, what good does this do for the elderly and families
that live close to the track losing sleep or a peaceful night (that
being the very reason they live in this small, intimate community)?
As my mother said in her letter to the editor (Lincoln Courier),
she lives more than a mile from the track, and the level of noise
(indoors) exceeds that of a television.
I shudder in disbelief when I think about the elderly that are
subjected to this, no more than 200 yards away at the nursing home.
If the windows in my parents' home are shaking, I am confident the
people that kept this community what it is that reside in this
nursing, assisted-living home are not resting well.
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 What I'm really trying to get at here is a question, or maybe
even a calling: Who else is disgusted by this grotesque infringement
of our right to enjoy a peaceful community? IF THIS WOULD'VE BEEN
SOMETHING THAT THE ENTIRE TOWN HAD VOTED ON AND AGREED TO, it would
be different. But evidently, it wasn't up to "us" to decide what
time we should be able to go to sleep on Saturday nights.
I'd love for the people that OK'd the races to be held where they
are (and when they are), to be subjected to a night of it... if not
across the street, even a few blocks away.
Much love to my community, but a newfound distrust to some of the
leaders thereof.
Jarrod Pegram Gerardot
(Posted June 1, 2006)
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