Letters To The Editor

SPOKANE MATTERS

Local punks have enablers at home

We were really impressed with the Spokane area when we moved here two years ago. However, that feeling is quickly falling by the wayside.

My son took his pickup, of which he was extremely proud, to a lake in Cheney. He left it parked along side the road while he went swimming with a group of friends. A bunch of bored kids broke into it and cleaned it out. He left it parked in our driveway at home, someone broke into it and it was again cleaned out.

Now he has a Mustang. Again, someone broke into it and again it was cleaned out. This time the police will be making inquiries. Footprints and tire tracks were left in the snow.

Where are the parents? Don’t they ask questions when their children come home with expensive stuff that obviously is not theirs? I guess not.

I am sorry that the parents of the kids in Spokane are not concerned, but given some of the parents I know, I can understand. I am sorry that such is the future of our country. Evelyn Truitt Spokane

Children’s Museum a blessing now

Spokane needs a fun, safe, supervised area for children to play indoors that is good for their brains as well as their bodies. On these cold winter days when we’ve recently been to the library and my 45-year-old body can’t go sledding again, we need a place to go. A place that is easy to get to from any neighborhood or any bus route. Somewhere that won’t add further expense now that the luster of new Christmas toys is wearing off. There must be a healthy alternative for fun and learning instead of simply fun from entertainment.

What a great gift the Children’s Museum is for the whole year. For about the cost of the whole family going to the movies twice, my kids get an entire year of learning without having to be taught, exhilarating play with no mess for me to clean up and educational fantasy with big toys and exhibits that I couldn’t afford to buy or make. The museum is open when school is closed and has new exhibits on the way.

Thanks so much to those who developed this healthy place for our kids. Joe Terhaar Spokane

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Slice humor was only that

I should’ve known that my recent submission to The Spokesman-Review’s Slice column would get someone’s dander up (Dec. 28 letter to the editor from Cindy Scinto). But to compare it to the recent stories about sex shops and serial killers is absolutely ridiculous.

I really did debate about sending that item in and did not mean to offend anyone. But I was also hoping that someone might actually get a chuckle out of it. Those of us who have kids know all too well the things that can come out of their mouths. That’s why I love the Slice. It gives people like me a place to read and to submit funny, offbeat stories.

The reason it was funny is because our daughter did not have a clue as to what we were talking about. She just knows we shop at Tidyman’s. It was not even a close reference to sex.

Scinto must have been busy the day last year I sent the story about my daughter saying, “I’m not a lady, I’m a tramp.” She was referring to the movie, “Lady and the Tramp.”

A better cause to fight for would be helping neighborhoods that are trying to get sex shops closed down. But leave the Slice alone. When most headlines are sad and dismal, the Slice gives me a smile to start my day. Denise Masiello Spokane