HomeMy Public PortalAbout17-11-12 Public Comments Received from November 5 to November 12November 12, 2017
Members of the ad hoc Committee on Victory Field Phase 2:
Attached are all the emails or other correspondence that I received from November 5 through
November 12 from the public, or that were forwarded to me from other members of the
Committee, and are for our consideration as we develop our recommendations.
There is only one document included, which is an email dated October 20, 2017 from Susan
Folino on Orchard Street, who was not successful emailing it to me, so she printed out a copy
and hand -delivered it to me.
Thanks
Vincent Piccirilli
Chair
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From: Susyq56 <Susyg56
To: councilorpalumba <cauncilorpalumba@gmai[.com>; sorabellacorp �sorabellacorp@
Subject: Fwd: Update FROM SUSAN FOLINO-BRYANT FRIDAY OCTOBER 20TH
Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2017 12:13 pm
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From Susyg56@]
To elodia vpiccirilii@watertown-ma.gov; councilorpalumba@gmail.com;
sorabellacorp@
Subject Re: Update FROM SUSAN FOL[NO-BRYANT FRIDAY OCTOBER 20TH
Date Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:42:58 -0400
I HAVE JUST HAD A MOMENT TO COME ON TO TRY TO CATCH UP AFTER A LONG DAY OF
TRYING SO HARD TO GET THINGS DONE AT OUR YARD, AS IT'S TAKEN MONTHS TO TRY TO
RECTIFY AND WE ARE STILL NOT FINISHED. I AM RATHER UNHAPPY ABOUT THE TONE OF
YOUR ABRUPT MESSAGE AND NOTE TO VINNIE, ELODIA.
THERE IS NOTHING IN MY E-MAIL THAT SHOULD BE A CONCERN TO YOU AT ALL., IN FACT
JUST THE OPPOSITE. IT APPEARS THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN IDEAS AND AGENDA
ABOUT SO MANY OTHER THINGS IN THE PARK THAN WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
ADDRESSED BEFORE THE TOT LOT NEXT TO OUR HOUSE, EVER GOT RESURFACED IN
THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEY ALSO CLEARED OUT NOTHING
BEFORE SACCA AND COMPANY EVEN BEGAN, I DID IT ALL MYSELF !! IT WAS A TRUE
MESS AND THEY DID NOTHING TO CLEAN IT BEFORE HAND OR AFTER EITHER.
TO BEGIN WITH AND PRIOR TO THE AD -HOC COMMITTEE MEETINGS IN MAY, IT WAS
THE PRIORITY OF GETTING THE FAMOUS TOT LOT REPAIRED AND RESURFACED
BEFORE ALL ELSE WAS ABLE TO BE DISCUSSED WITH ANY ONE "CONCERNED
RESIDENT" AT ALL. IT MAY HAVE BEEN IN DISREPAIR, AS MANY TIMES, OLDER KIDS
KEPT TEARING IT UP AND APART AND THROWING ALOT OF THE JUNK OVER TO OUR
YARD. I WOULD FIND MANY PIECES OF IT STREWN CONSTANTLY ON OUR LAWN
WEEKLY.
YOU YOURSELF HAVE SAID ELODIA, THAT NOTHING I5 A DONE DEAL, BUT THAT WAS
SURELY A DONE DEAL WITHOUT OUR SAY TO COLOR OR ANYTHING AT ALL IN FACT OR
LOCATION !!!
SINCE PETER CENTOLA DOES CERTAINLY HEAD UP THE RECREATION DEPT, ALL SEEMS
TO HAVE TO FUNNEL THRU HIM FOR ANYTHING BUT HE NEVER RETURNS A PHONE
CALL AND NEITHER DOES BOB DIRICO IN FACT WHO HEADS UP THE PARKS
CARETAKING DEPT. THEY MAKE SURE THEY PASS THE BUCK ONTO ONE ANOTHER
VERY CONVENIENTLY I MUST ADD THRU ONE ANOTHER. AND PETER MAKES SURE THE
PLAYING FIELD IS ABSOLUTELY SPOTLESS AROUND THE OVAL, WITHOUT GOOSE POOP
AND THE TENNIS AND BASKETBALL COURTS, BUT THE TOT LOT AND ALL GOING DOWN
THE ORCHARD STREET AREA IS IN COMPLETE NEGLECT ALWAYS.
PLEASE GIVE ME A REASONABLE ANSWER AS TO WHY THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON LIKE
THIS FOR 50 MANY YEARS ?? PLEASE TELL ME WHY IS THIS THE CASE AND PETER
SAYS ITS NOT HIS DEPT. BUT IN FACT OTHERS REFER US BACK TO HIM ALL THE TIME !!
SICKENS US REALLY. .. AND WHY IS THIS NEVER BEING ADDRESSED BY EITHER HIM OR
BOB DIRICO ? EVERYONE CONTINUOUSLY PASSES THE BUCK ONTO THE NEXT PERSON
AND NO ONE EVER TAKES CHARGE OF GETTING THINGS CLEANED UP.
TREES COME DOWN AS THEY FEEL LIKE IT WHETHER IT BE IN A CEMETARY OR
WHATEVER IS NECESSARY FOR THE GIVEN TIME. AS A MATTER OF FACT THE FIRST
PINE TREE WAS TAKEN DOWN NOT FOR US AT ALL. WE IN FACT DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
ABOUT IT, UNTIL IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ONE DAY IN MID JANUARY, AND THEY SAID
THEY WERE COMING BACK FOR THE OTHER ONE THE NEXT WEEK TO FINISH THE JOB
TO US. AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE TOLD IT WAS ALL BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
WANT THE "SAP" ON THE CHILDREN AT THE NEW TOT LOT.
THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO CONSIDERATION OF US AT ALL EITHER, BEING THE "MOST
DIRECT ABUTTERS" OF ALL FROM THE GET GO. AND NOT MUCH HAS REALLY YET
CHANGED YET OTHER THAN THE VOTING OF AN AGREEMENT THAT A PINE TREE
WOULD BE REMOVED TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW PLANTINGS ETC. IN THE TOT LOT AND
THAT CHRIS HAYWARD AND GLEN HOWARD WOULD MEET TO DISCUSS WHAT COULD BE
DONE TO MAKE IT ALOT NICER SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I HAD CALLED AND SPOKEN TO
GLEN AFTER THE LIGHTING DIS[PLAY ACTUALLY WHILE MY MOM WAS STILL IN THE
HOSPITAL AT SPAULDING, AND HE HIMSELF INFORMED ME THAT"HE COULDN'T
EVALUATE THE TOT LOT UNLESS HE HAD PETER'S OK. THAT SEEMED REALLY ODD AS
HE HAD NOT EVEN SEEN IT IN SOME 5 YEARS HE SAID.
WELL WE STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS IN STORE FOR THE TOT LOT, BUT I CAN
ASSURE YOU I HAVE WONDERFUL IDEAS IF THEY COULD BE IMPLEMENTED. AS PEOPLE
PASS BY MY HOME THEY LOVE MY DECORATING IDEAS AND LANDSCAPING YEAR AFTER
YEAR I RECIEVE MANY COMPLIMENTS AND WHY I DON'T GO INTO THE BUSINESS
MYSELF. BUT AS YOU YOURSELF SAID, ELODIA AND VINNIE AS WELL THAT NEITHER
OF YOU, WOULD WANT THE TOT LOT ON TOP OF YOUR HOUSES.
WELL WE HAVE IT, AND WE SEEM STUCK WITH IT AT LEAST FOR RIGHT NOW. IN THE
MEANTIME, A BETTER SOLUTION AND COMPROMISE WOULD REALLY BE TO MOVE THE
VERY FIRST SECTION AND FLIP IT ❑N OVER TO ACROSS FROM THE WATER FOUNTAIN.
THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR IT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SWINGS, AND WOULD
NOT BE A BIG DEAL EITHER. EXCEPT FOR THE ONES THAT WANT TO KEEP IT ON TOP
OF US, JUST AS IT IS, AN EYE SORE AND A NOISY ONE AT THAT. AS IT'S REALLY NOT
NICE T❑ HAVE AT OUR BACKYARD, AS ❑NE CAN VERY CLEARLY VIEW THE ENTIRE TOP
OF THE RED ROOF FROM OUR BACK YARD, WHERE PARENTS GO UP THE STAIRS AND
THE SLIDE DOWN WITH THEIR YOUNGSTERS IN TOW, SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF
THEIR LUNGS AT FULL CAPACITY.
SINCE NOT ONE SOUL IN THIS TOWN HAS PUT UP WITH THIS CONSTANT BARRAGE OF
NOISE AND MANY CHILDREN AND DAY CARE PEOPLE THAT BRING THEIR YOUNG ONES
THERE ALL THE TIME, THEY EVEN CHANGE THEIR DIAPERS ❑N THE GROUND. WE
HAVE CONSTANTLY EXPERIENCED SO MUCH STUFF IT'S INCREDULOUS FOR US AND
ALSO DISMAYED AT OUR BROKEN WINDOWS .. AND BY THE WAY THE CURRENT CUSTOM
BROKEN DOUBLE THERMOPANE WINDOW IS AT AN 8 FOOT HEIGHT WHERE THE BALL
WAS THROWN, AS THEY USE THE FENCE AS A WALL, WHICH IT IS SURELY NOT., AND
THIS WAS AND IS VERY EXPENSIVE "VANDALISM" TO OUR HOUSE AND NOT THE FIRST
TIME EITHER AND A HUGE IMPOSITION AS IT MUST BE CUSTOM ORDERED TO SPECS,
AND TAKES ABOUT 8 WEEKS TO GET IN.
JUST IN TIME FOR A BLOWY COLD WINTER'S DAY. AND I HAVE A HUGE L -SHAPED SOFA
AND VERY HEAVY CONTEMPORARY GLASS COFFEE TABLE THAT ALL HAS TO GET
MOVED OUT OF THE WAY TO DO THIS WORK. A HUGE IMPOSITION ONCE AGAIN YET ON
MYSELF.
QUITE FRANKLY MY MOTHER AND I ARE QUITE SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE
UNNECESSARY POLITICS IN THIS TOWN. OUR SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS FOUGHT FOR
THIS TOT LOT TO BE RELOCATED AND SOMEWHERE ELSE FROM THE ONSET, AAND
KEPT WAY WAY BACK AND WE SIMPLY DO NOT KNOW, HOW IT GOT THROWN UP HERE IN
OUR FACES FROM THE REAR OF THE PARK ? PERHAPS YOU DO KNOW HOW THAT
HAPPENED T❑ WHERE IT WAS IN AN IDEAL SPOT FOR IT TO BE ??? AS IT WAS
SURROUNDE❑ BY MANY TREES AND MORE INDISCRIMINATE THAN WHERE IT SITS
TODAY ❑N A VERY BUSY STREET IN FACT MAKING IT ALL THE MUCH WORSE FOR US
AND EVERYONE ELSE HERE.
PERHAPS MARK SIDERIS MADE A VERY POOR DECISION WHEN HE DID NOT CHOOSE
THE MOST DIRECT ABUTTERS OF VICTORY FIELD WHICH WAS EITHER OF US, RESIDING
HERE AT 28-30 ORCHARD STREET. AND HE CERTAINLY KNOWS OUR FEELINGS ON THAT
DECISION WHICH I AM SURE HAD ALOT TO DO WITH US WANTING TO RELOCATE A
PORTION OF THE TOT LOT FROM THE VERY FIRST MEETING WE HAD TALKED WITH
PETER CENTOLA BACK IN 2015 WHEN WE WERE THE ONLY TWO PERSONS IN FACT THAT
SHOWED UP FOR HIS RECREATION MEETING ON A COLD WINTERS NIGHT. ALOT ❑F
HANKY PANKY GOING ON IN THIS TOWN FROM ❑NE PERSON TO ANOTHER AND WE ARE
NOT OBLIVIOUS TO ANY OF IT AT ALL ! IN FACT IT STARES US SMACK IN THE FACE ALL
THE TIME IF THE REAL THRUTH OF THE MATTER BE KNOWN.
ELODIA, IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR MUSCO LIGHTING THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL IN
TWO OTHER VENDORS THAT MAKE LED LIGHTS OR EVEN SOLAR LIGHTING FOR THE
TENNIS COURTS ? THERE IS ALSO SOMETHING CALLED THE ULTRA LED BULB IN FACT
WHICH IS EVEN MORE COST EFFECTIVE. THE AD HOC COMMITTEE HAD PLENTY OF
TIME TO HEAR PRESENTATIONS FROM A FEW DIFFERENT VENDORS OTHER THAN THE
SUPPOSED NUMBER ONE CHOICE NOW IN LIGHTING.
IN FACT, THERE IS REALLY HARDLY ANYONE EVER PLAYING TENNIS AT THE COURTS,
AND THEN AGAIN, WE ARE SPENDING SOME ODD $150,000.00 TO LIGHT THEM !! BUT
WHEN IT COMES TO REDECORATING A SMALL TOT LOT **** ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE,
LIKE WE ARE GETTING SOMETHING, THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE GETTING AT ALL. WELL
YOU ARE WRONG AND WE DON'T FEEL THAT WAY AT ALL, IN FACT WE ARE GETTING
SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T WANT AT ALL, AND IT'S THE TOT LOT SHOVED AT US FOR
YEARS ON END IN FACT.
WE'D LOVE OTHERS TO SHARE IN OUR JOY, SO EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE HATED THE
TENNIS COURT LIGHTS, YOU HAVE NEVER EVER HAD TO EXPERIENCE ALOT ❑F NOISE.
YOU MAY HAVE ALWAYS EXPERIENCED POOR LIGHTING AS WE ALL HAVE FOR NOW, BUT
YOUV'E NEVER BEEN DISRUPTED BY THE CONSTANT BARRAGE OF TRUE CRAP THAT
GOES ON NEXT TO OUR HOME .. IT IS WRONG, AND HAS BEEN WRONG FOR YEARS
WITHOUT ANYONE EVER GIVING US THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES UNTIL NOW
PERHAPS.
THE TREES PLANTED WERE ALL WRONG T❑ BEGIN WITH, AND THE ROOTS OF THE PINE
TREE ARE ABOVE GROUND AND THOSE TREES WERE ALSO PLANTED INCORRECTLY AND
CHOSEN WRONGFULLY.
S❑ WHAT IS REALLY SO UPSETTING OR DISTURBING TO YOU NOW ? YOU WON THE
ARTIFICIAL TURF BATTLE, BUT WE HAVE GOTTEN DISRESPECTED TIME AND TIME
AGAIN BY MANY PEOPLE AND OTHER RESIDENTS ALIKE FROM WHAT WE HAVE HEARD
AND SEEN IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS. WE SHOULD NEVER EVER HAVE HAD THIS TOT
LOT PUT ON TOP OF US EVER 1! TWENTY FEET AWAY AND 16 FEET IN HEIGHT IN OUR
BACK YARD AND SIDE YARD IS JUST UTTERLY JUST PLAIN WRONG TO BEGIN WITH. AS
WELL AS THE NONSENSE OF TALK OF PUTTING A BATHROOM THERE WAS JUST THE
COOP DE GRAS THAT MY MOTHER WAS FURIOUS AT ON TUESDAY EVENING. ADDING
FURTHER INSULT TO INJURY BY P. CENTOLA. THEN AGAIN WHY WOULD ANYONE
CREATE AN UGLIER THAN THOU STRUCTURE ❑F RED AND YELLOW TO BEGIN WITH. IT
IS SURELY VERY UNAPEALING TO THE EYE AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A
CONGLOMERATION IN ALL MY TRAVELS OF VIEWING OTHER FUN PARKS FOR KIDS.
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS PAINT FOR PLASTIC TOO, AS I AM SURE YOU ARE ALL
AWARE OF BUT NEVER PROBABLY THOUGHT OF, TO CHANGE OR EVEN ONCE BROUGHT
UP.
I HAVE ATTENDED ALL OF THE MEETINGS, THRU THE THICK AND THIN OF IT, WAS
ALWAYS WELL PREPARED, AND MORE PREPARED THAN SOME, AND PETER CENTOLA
HAS BEEN UNCOOPERATIVE AT ALL TIMES TO SAY THE LEAST FOR EVERYTHING SINCE
WE MET WITH HIM A FEW YEARS BACK, WHEN HE REFERRED TO YOU ELODIA AS THE
QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE" . I CAN JUST IMAGINE WHAT HE CALLS MY MOTHER AND I
BEHIND OUR BACKS. HE IS RUDE AND SHOULD NEVER HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS OF SUCH MAGNITUDE WITH OUT HEARING FROM REAL RESIDENTS WHO
LIVE AND RESIDE NEXT TO SUCH A MONSTROSITY OF STRUCTURES. HE GETS TO WALK
AWAY FROM IT ALL AND GOES HOME, WHERE WE HAVE IT IN OUR EARDRUMS
MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT. IS HE KIDDING ME OR US FOR HIS LITTLE OR NO REAL
CONCERN ❑F ABUTTERS ..HIS EXCUSES ALONG WITH OTHERS ARE RIDICULOUS COP
OUTS.
WE ARE CERTAINLY UPSET BY ALOT OF THE RHETORIC BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T RESIDE
WHERE WE DO, AND HAVE MUCH TOO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THINGS THAT DON'T EVEN
PERTAIN TO THEM. WE HAVE HAD AND INTRODUCED WONDERFUL IDEAS FOR THIS
PARK, AND WE HAVE LIVED HERE THE LONGEST OF ANY RESIDENT BESIDE THIS PARK.
I DON'T HAVE TO SAY MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THIS PARK, EXCEPT THAT IT WAS
ONCE AN APPLE ORCHARD AND WE HAD APPLE AND PEAR TREES IN OUR YARD WHEN
WE FIRST ARRIVED AND FOR MANY YEARS WE ENJOYED THEM ALOT.
WATERTOWN USED TO BE A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE AND GROWING UP EVEN AT
THIS FIELD, BUT NOW TOO MUCH IS BEING PUT INTO IT WITHOUT COMMON SENSE...
THE ENTIRE PARK COULD BE MADE TO LOOK MORE LIKE A PARK, RATHER THAN AN
ATHLETIC FIELD AND THAT WAS ONE OF MY GOALS ALL ALONG.
TO INTERTWINE THE TWO SO WE COULD ALL ENJOY OUR FIELD ONCE AGAIN AND MAKE
IT A CLASSY DIGNIFIED PLACE AND NOT JUST A STOMPING GROUND FOR KIDS TO
THROW THEIR CRAP AROUND AS THEY DO NOW.
HOW MANY OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS EVER ACTUALLY WENT TO BROOKLINE TO
THE MINOT ROSE GARDEN ON ST. PAUL STREET. I WAS BORN AND FIRST RESIDED IN
BROOKLINE AND TO ME THEY ARE WAY MORE HANDS ❑N THAN THAT OF WATERTOWN.
AND THEY SEEM TO CARE AS A COMMUNITY WITH PEOPLE THAT JUST DON'T "TALK
THE WALK" BUT ACTUALLY TAKE CHARGE AND TAKE PART OF SOMETHING AS A
COMMUNITY AND LEND A HAND T❑ ONE ANOTHER. WHICH I DON'T SEE HAPENING HERE
AT ALL, SO THAT I5 WHY I WROTE MY LAST E-MAIL FOR OTHERS T❑ PARTICIPATE IN
CLEANING UP THE PLAYING GROUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN IGNORED FOR FAR TOO LONG,
AND TOT LOT/PLAYING GROUND AREA WITHIN ??? WHERE IS THE TEAM WORK OF
OTHER PEOPLE GETTING OUT THEIR RAKES AND GETTING THEIR HANDS A BIT DIRTY ?
I MENTIONED IT SO MANY TIMES PRIOR T❑ THESE MEETINGS, BUT NO IDEAS OF A
GARDEN AREA OR REAL FOUNTAIN EVER GOT ENTERTAINED. THERE IS ROOM WHERE
ONE WANTS TO MAKE ROOM. THERE ARE CERTAINLY BEAUTIFUL AREAS OF WHERE
NICE ❑RNAMENTAL TREES COULD BE PLANTED AS WELL IN THE PARK AND THE TOT
LOT. AND BY THE WAY, I NEVER HEARD OF ANY "PREDATORS" LOOMING IN VICTORY
FIELD UNTIL NOW AND I WALKED THERE PLENTY OF EVENINGS ACCOMPANIED FOR
MILES ON END BEFORE THE AUTO ACCIDENT I WAS IN LAST SUMMER, AS I AM IN NEED
OF SERIOUS FOOT AND ANKLE SURGERY BEFORE I CAN EVEN WALK A BLOCK, LET
ALONE A MILE, AND CANNOT WEAR A REAL SHOE UNTIL I HAVE A FEW OPERATIONS N❑
LESS.
UNLESS THERE HAVE BEEN THE POLICE CALLED TO THE PARK WHICH I AM NOT AWARE
OF, THAT THERE HAVE BEEN ANY REAL THREATS OR INCIDENTS THERE AT ALL, ALOT
OF SPECULATION AND NO REAL EVIDENCE OF SUCH, BUT FEEL SECURITY CAMERAS
ARE MOST DEFINITELY NECESSARY ON THE AGENDA FOR THE NEW PARK T❑ STOP ANY
KIND OF VANDALISM ETC..
I MYSELF WOULD NEVER CALL ON THE POLICE FOR KIDS PLAYING IN THE TOT LOT AT
1 1PM AT NIGHT OR EVEN LATER, AS ❑NE WOULD JUST GET FURTHER VANDALIZED. AS
AN EXAMPLE AS FAR BACK IN 2010, I HAD A LOVELY CHILDREN'S BENCH SITTING
UNDER THE DOGWOOD TREE ❑N MY FRONT LAWN FOR CHILDREN TO SIT IN AND ENJOY
FROM THE PARK, AS I ALWAYS HAD KIDS COME OVER AND SEAY HELLO TO ME,
RESPECTFUL CHILDREN AS WELL. AND IT WAS SURROUNDED BY GORGEOUS FLOWERS.
WELL ❑NE DAY I WAKE UP TO IT WITH A LOVELY BULLFROG ON IT WITH IT'S HEAD
CHOPPED OFF. THEN TW❑ DAYS LATER, MY BENCH WAS THROWN OVER THE FENCE TO
THE TOT LOT AND THE ROD IRON ARMS HAD BEEN BROKEN OFF. THAT IS THE SAME
TYPE OF VANDALISM THAT HAS PERSISTED BY LIVING NEXT TO THE TOT LOT ALL
ALONG AND I DON'T THINK ANY ONE IN THIS TOWN WOULD PUT UP WITH THAT FOR
VERY LONG. SICKENING IN FACT.
THEN WHEN I PAY TOP DOLLAR TO HAVE LANDSCAPERS AND WORKERS WRAP UP OUR
ARBOVITAES EVERY YEAR AND SPEND HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS DOING SO, TO PROTECT
THEM FROM THE WINTER SNOW, I END UP WITH THE BURLAP BEING YANKED DOWN
MANY TIMES OVER AND I HAVE PLENTY OF PHOTOS DEPICTING JUST THIS. I FINALLY
HAD T❑ THROW OUT THE EXPENSIVE BURLAP THIS PAST YEAR IN THE SPRING AS IT
TOOK PLACE AND CAME DOWN ON IT'S OWN MYSTERIOUSLY AFTER BEING WELL TIED
UP, MANY TIMES LAST YEAR TO OUR CHAGRIN. TERRIBLE TO HAVE KIDS DO THIS
OVER AND OVER TO ONE'S PROPERTY WOULDN'T YOU SAY S❑ ?
HOW DOES ONE HANDLE ALL THIS NONSENSE TIME AN❑ TIME AGAIN ? IT IS
DESPICABLE, AND WE ARE TRULY DISGUSTED NEIGHBORS OF THE TOT LOT , WHICH
SHOULD BE RIGHTFULLY NAMED AFTER BOTH MY MOM AND I WITH A PLAQUE, SINCE
WE HAVE TAKEN SUCH PRECIOUS CARE OF THIS TOT LOT FOR SO MANY YEARS IN FACT
WITH MY MOM FRACTURING HER LEG FROM FALLING OVER A ROOT ❑F THE PINE TREE
WHILE CLEANING IT FOR MY BENEFIT. SO MUCH SO, THAT I HAVE CLEANED IT ALL UP
MANY HOURS IN A WEEK FOR S❑ MANY YEARS THAT BOTH MY HANDS NOW NEED
MAJOR SURGERY WITH REMOVING A BONE AS I HAVE BONE ON BONE RUBBING
TOGETHER NOW FROM ALL MY CLEANING UP NEXT DOOR.
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER T❑ SAY TO US ELODIA, YOU CAN CALL MY MOTHER
BECAUSE SHE IS REALLY FURIOUS AT IT ALL IN FACT AS WELL AS I AM. WE HAVE PUT
UP WITH ALL OF THE RAMIFICATIONS ❑F THIS LONG ENOUGH. AND I FOR ONE REALLY
DON'T APPRECIATE GOSSIP AND DISCRIMINATORY BEHAVIOR BEHIND OUR BACKS
EITHER.
TRUTHFULLY ONE TOT LOT SECTION CAN EASILY BE MOVED AS A COMPROMISE TO
THIS WHOLE MESS, AND NICE TABLES AND CHAIRS COULD BE PLACED ON THE FIRST
RUBERIZED SURFACED AREA WHICH IS TOO CLOSE TO US TO BEGIN WITH. BUT OF
COURSE THAT WAS NEVER ON THE TABLE AND NEVER A CONSIDERATION AT ALL EVEN
THOUGH I MENTIONED IT MANY TIMES.
HOW WOULD EITHER OF YOU LIKE TO HAVE YOUR PROPERTY,WALLS FENCES AND
LANDSCAPING DESTROYED BY THE TOWN'S RIDICULOUS IDEAS THAT THEY IMPOSED ON
US, THAT WERE WRONG T❑ BEGIN WITH ? AND THEN HAVE TO CONTINUOSLY CORRECT
AND RECTIFY THOSE COSTLY MISTAKES WITH MORE MONEY TO BOOT AS I HAVE HAD
TO SHELL OUT CONTINUOUSLY YEAR AFTER YEAR, AFTER YEAR. AS I SEE IT OVER A
LITTLE E-MAIL THAT SEEMED TO GET UP YOUR CRAW FOR WAHT REASON I HAVE NO
IDEA, YOU WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY INFURIATED. AND EVERYONE AROUND HERE
KNOWS WHAT WE HAVE GONE THRU AS WELL WHICH IS VERY UNFAIR TO US BOTH.
PERHAPS MORE TIME SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPENT ON THE UPPER PART OF ORCHARD
STREET RATHER THAN SO MANY HOURS DISCUSSING LIGHTS FOREVER AND EVER. AS I
SAID PREVIOUSLY TO YOU AND OTHERS, IF YOU WERE EVER INVOLVED IN RUNNING A
WORLDWIDE COMPANY SUCH AS I DID, YOU WOULD CLEARLY AND CLEVERLY WANT TO
GET MUSCO'S LIGHTS FOR ABSOLUTELY FREE, BY BRANDING THEM ONTO VICTORY
FIELD, BUT YOU SAID THAT YOU AND YOU ALONE SAID THIS T❑ ME, YOU SIMPLY
DIDN'T WANT MUSCO'S LIGHTS AT ALL ! WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT WAS YOU ALONE IN
MAKING THAT DECISION EITHER FOR THE TOWN'S PARK TOO.
WELL, WE CAN ALL WISH FOR THINGS THAT WE ALL WANT TO SEE HAPPEN, CONCERTS
IN THE PARK AT THE NEW GAZEBO WOULD BE WONDERFUL, BUT WE REALLY HAVE NO
IDEA OF WHAT ANYONE REALLY IS GOING TO GET, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THE
ATHLETIC DEPT., WILL GET A NEW FIELD, NEW TRACK, NEW TENNIS COURTS, NEW
FIELD HOUSE, ELEVATOR AND ALL, AT A HUGE EXPENSE, MORE LIKE A UNIVERSITY
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, AND AS PETER KEPT MENTIONING EARLY ON, AND COMPARED
TO THE LIKES OF M.I.T. HE'S GOT BIG DREAMS WITH PENNIES IN HIS POCKETS TO
CONTRIBUTE.
AS WE DON'T EVEN HAVE THE FUNDS FOR STREET CLEANING WITH MORE THAN ONE
GUY WHO CAN RUN THE EQUIPTMENT FOR OUR HUGE TOWN TURNING INTO A "CITY"
WHICH IS WHAT I TRULY FEEL AS WELL AS OTHERS THAT MR. MAGOON WANTS VERY
BADLY, THEN EVERYONE WILL BE CITY COUNCILORS WITH EQUIVALENT PAY AND NOT
TOWN COUNCILORS ANY LONGER IF THE GROWTH KEEPS UP AT THIS PACE AND IT IS
SO IT APPEARS RAPIDLY EXPANDING.
WELL, WOE IS ME AND OTHERS WHO DISLIKE ALL THAT'S GONE ON, NOW AT ARSENAL
STREET, WITH ❑OUBLE BYCICLE LANES THAT ONE CAN HARDLY BARELY DRIVE DOWN
NOW.. HEARD THERE HAVE BEEN MANY ACCIDENTS ALREADY THERE ❑N THAT STREET
AND THEY ARE BLAMING MR. MAGOON FOR HIS PRRO DECISION MAKING ON THAT
STREET. ..JUST MORE CRAZINESS ❑F A DOUBLE BIKE PATH ON THE SIDE WALK NO
LESS. THIS TOWN IS CHANGING ALL TOO FAST WITH TOO MANY APARTMENTS AND NOT
ENOUGH COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY BRINGING IN REVENUE AND CERTAINLY ABSOLUTELY
N❑ MORE ROOM TO MOVE AROUND ANYMORE.
WHICH I HOPE OUR PARK IS NOT GOING TO GET DESTROYED BUT ENHANCED BY THE
MANY TEAMS THAT WILL BE COMING TO PLAY IN THE FUTURE. I STILL FEEL ALL THE
PARKS COUL❑ DIVVY UP THE SPORTS AND NOT HAVE EVERYTHING CENTERED AROUND
VICTORY FIELD, AS TO ME AND OTHERS ALIKE THAT IT WILL BE OVERKILL.
MY IDEA ❑F FORMING A FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE NEVER GOT DISCUSSED EVEN ❑NE
TIME. ALL OF IT STILL HAS TO GET APPROVE❑ AT THE TOWN COUNCIL LEVEL ANYWAY.
SO LET IT GO AT THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, WE HAVE NO ARBORVITAES LEFT THAT WE
CAN SEE RIGHT THRU AND ARE SO VERY SPARSE AND YET WE CALLED IN THE TOWN
WHEN WE SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THEM 7 YEARS BACK YET NO ONE DID A
DAMN THING ABOUT IT. AND THEY DO COST UPWARDS OF 17K WITHOUT DELIVERY ❑R
PLANTING THEM, AND IF I WERE TO REPLACE WHAT I HAVE LOST AS A RESULT OF
WRONG DOING. NO ONE WOULD BE HAPPY ABOUT THAT NOW WOULD THEY ?!
OTHERS WILL COMMENT ON WHAT THEY HAVE OBSERVED FROM ALL THE TALKS AND
MEETINGS ❑F WHAT WE HAVE GONE THRU THUS FAR AND I WILL CLOSE FOR NOW AS IT
IS LATE AND I AM TIRED BUT TOOK THE TIME NOW TO EXPRESS WHAT NEEDED TO BE
SAID. HAVE A GOOD DAY TO ALL, AS I'M TIRED OF BEING FRAZZLED OVER ALL OF THIS
AND ITS JUST NOT WORTH ALL THE AGGRAVATION FOR NOW AND OUR DAY WILL COME
I AM SURE WHEN WE OUR VOICES WILL BE HEARD. MY HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT
THAN DEALING WITH INGRATEFUL AND DISCOURAGING PEOPLE WHO DON'T REALLY
CARE ABOUT OTHERS FEELINGS OR THOUGHTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
REGARDS, SUSAN AND MARIA