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Around Town >> Fire department sirens
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08/23 16:42 posted by Chuck Trella |
No problem Community Father. I hear your frustration and I actually agree with you and the others here who feel we are focusing too much on minor things and not enough on the major things. But human nature is such that people will complain about those thing that annoy them. Some will think they're major and others minor. But that's the nature of a pluralistic and democratic society.
As the parent of 4 teens myself, I have to say that I am totally in agreement with a curfew. My wife and I try our best to keep tabs on our kids, and whenever they state they want to just go hang out in town and walk around the caution flags go up and we usually put our own curfew on them. We also try to make our home always available for them and their friends to hang out here. I see no reason or need for teens to be roaming the streets in packs at 1, 2, 3 in the morning. It absolutely is a recipe for disaster. But we are blessed with the ability for my wife to be a stay at home mom and so perhaps we have more oversite in our family than some of these kids have in theirs.
I have to wonder too - what happens if they are over 18? They have every legal right to walk around on public streets at ANY time of day. They may appear to be and act like kids - but legally they are not. I see many that I know to be 18+ so a curfew would not be the end all be all solution. How much of our own adult freedoms do we give up in exchange for cleared streets?
Just wondering.
CW98
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08/17 20:46 posted by jcbike |
Oh Cornwall, I agree whole heartedly with an implementation of a curfew! Teenagers should not be running around after 11 its absurd!!! unless coming from employment, there is nothing out there for them in the early morning hours but trouble. I heard from the grapevine that we need to approach the board in numbers on this one. I'm willing to stand up on this issue.
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08/17 18:41 posted by Oh Cornwall |
Preach on Community Father!
I have to say that the amount of complaining over trivial things in Cornwall is outrageous, although I respect that everyone is entitled to their opinions. It seems to me as a relatively young person that our efforts in Cornwall are wasted on minor things while other problems are ignored. I see nothing being done about the groups of rude, obnoxious, destructive kids everywhere. I in no way think that every kid in Cornwall falls into this category but it’s definitely a sizable amount of them. I can’t believe the amount of times I read in the police blotter about groups of kids being told to “move along” in the wee hours of the morning, it seems to me that their should be some sort of curfew, maybe it will help some of them stay out of trouble. My property has been vandalized along with many others and yet still nothing is done, perhaps it would be more worth our while to do something so that kids can stay out of trouble, I don’t know about all of you but I certainly wasn’t allowed to roam the streets of Cornwall at 1am when I was that age.
Oh yea and if we really want something to complain about, how about the swastika that is drawn on the pedestrian crosswalk sign at the intersection of Rt. 218 and Homeland? I know for a fact that it was reported initially to the police over two weeks ago and again this week and yet there it stands, almost mocking the fact that we pay taxes in this town for the police to write tickets to people illegally parking at the river (heavens no!) and yet BS like that stands for weeks.
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08/16 14:48 posted by Chuck Trella |
Yeah - now there's a real intelligent response. Anyone who doesn't think just like you do should move? Unreal.
I've been here for 10 years and I've paid my taxes and I have just as much a right to express my thoughts and opinions don't I? So you don't like em . . . too bad. I am not totally against the siren, but I do think it could be replaced by better updated pagers (since not everyone has a newer one apparently) and a lowered volumn level of the siren. What's so wrong with that?
And I meant no disrespect to the fire folks by my previous comment - only that if there were no siren as a backup then the volunteers might be even MORE congnizent of the need to keep your pagers on you at all times. Is that really so bad? Most of us in this day and age have learned to keep cell phones on us - and yes - we occassionally forget - me too. So I can undersand the desire for a back up - but surely there are some better solutions than a blaring siren.
Just my .02 cents worth.
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08/11 08:59 posted by murphdog |
all you people here that are complaining, please move out of town. The villiage was nicer before you moved here. Or at least get a 2nd job so that your mind is content with doing something besides complaining.
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