Letters

Here are some recent letters... just had to share.


"We've been keeping abreast of all the Walmart/Lowe's news & wanted to bring to your attention the fact that Walmart has a company (Janes) who cleans their parking lot.
Well Janes runs their blowers/street sweeper) in the very early AM starting @ 6:00 & finishing around 7:30am. This is being done 7 days a week & is most annoying on SUNDAY mornings. The noise travels, echos thru the valley of Highland Ave & is extremely LOUD.
Wondering if anyone else has brought this up?
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK YOU ARE DOING AN AWESOME JOB!

Peace,
Xxxxxx & Xxxx"

(Reply:  Would be nice if we taped a video of this :)

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"Hi folks,
I am a preservation xxxxx.
I just saw in today's Salem News mention on page 8 that Katerina believes
there may be Native Am. history associated with the woods behind the
proposed project. I think she could very well be right about that. 

I did post a picture of one of the "perched" stones on my FB page--to see
what Native Americans think of it. I have about 900 Native friends on
Facebook--and some of them have said it looks like a "meeting stone" and
suggested it might have been part of a sacred or ceremonial landscape long
ago.

Best and more later,
Xxxx"

(Reply:  Peace on...)

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"I just saw your posting on geocaching. I have to say, it's one of my favorite.
:) I wish I had more time to try some geocaching.

The reason I'm writing though is because I was thinking about what changes a big box would bring. It was about 10:15 when I drove back here to work. As I drove out Fays Ave I kept looking up to the left and wondered what I could see if this thing happens.
Right now as you look up over Scranton and Daigle Rds it's all dark. What I
wonder is what kind of light pollution we'll have with a big box next door.
Have you heard that term before, (light polution)? I've heard the term before
and I suspect it's been used in some civil litigations somewhere in the past
with other developments.

It could be a big change especially people living on the North side of Fays
ave. They're going to go from dark calm all night to living in a brightly lit
parking lot. I doubt Lowes has volunteered anything about it's hours of
operation and lighting schemes but it's something to consider."

~xxxxx

(Reply: Its been brought up in the hearing, and I've been an opponent on the subject, as usual. No matter how good the down-lights will be, there will be a bounce of light off the metallic and glass surfaces of cars, and wet asphalt in rain. The skies will be brighter. Anyone who believes different is being fooled.)

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"I want the names of all Lynn Lions who voted for this made public and would ask that their representative be brought to the city council chambers to explain their rationale for voting. "

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"Who is paying for the charts, pictures, etc. that you've been providing? Do you have a checking account where you can deposit donations??"

(Reply:  That would be me, making the maps... and some images have been shared here by others.)

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"After this is all over you can be hired by other communities to attack these projects, since you have become very good at it."

(Reply:  It never pays.... just makes the soul feel good :)

Actually, I recently helped a person in Swampscott fight a development, after they've read one of the articles in the paper for Spring Pond Woods, and I am helping a few other causes in Salem and Lynn. 

..... peace on