Letters to the Editor 12-27-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Ready For Growth - Menards Wise Move - Stop Growth
Ready For Growth
Editor, Times-Union:In response to the letters about Menards and the fact that the city does not want to grow, I say let's get some new blood in the councils. When a city council in California did not want a Wal-Mart coming to town, the community petitioned for a special election and the vote was to allow Wal-Mart to build or not to build. It passed with almost 90 percent of the vote.
We are the people and the council works for everyone in the community, not just themselves who most are small business owners or their friend, which are the same. They need to remember who voted them into office and that we are the same people that can vote them out. They need to come to the present and stop living in the 1950s. Warsaw is ready for growth and it is time we do just that.
If the councils do not allow Warsaw to grow, we will see Warsaw die and the big ortho companies will leave. What do we think brought them here in the first place? They came here because they saw into the future and they saw that Warsaw would grow. So for everyone's benefit, I say let Menards build.
Keith Gorman
Warsaw, via e-mail
Menards Wise Move
Editor, Times-Union:This is in response to the comment made by Jim Maze, owner of Ace Hardware, at the Warsaw Plan Commission meeting last week on the subject of Menards.
You said if we allowed them in, "jobs would be lost" and "it would siphon dollars out of the community." If people shopped here at Menards instead of driving to Goshen or Fort Wayne (like we do now), the money would stay here! As for jobs being lost, they will hire many more people than what few jobs would be lost if they came to town.
If your business has a product people want and you treat them right, you will stay in business even if Menards does come to town. Did you petition against the Love Bug when they came to town, only to move several blocks from your store? Certainly they present competition against your flower shop, but it is still up and running so you must be doing something right!
As far as your comment "be fair and look to the community," Menards is what the majority of we people are asking for! If so, many people weren't already driving to Menards from Warsaw, they wouldn't be looking to move here!
Everyone was so excited when Lowe's came to town, but their lumber is no match for Carter Lumber and they haven't lost their customers, neither has Builder's Mart. Why? Because they have good product and good customer service. That is just good business practice, that's what competition is all about and a good businessman knows that.
In regards to Jack Klinefelter's letter of Dec. 20, "The school's traffic problem, who allowed all the apartments across from the school?" Great letter, Jack, and I couldn't agree with you more, but maybe you weren't aware that more apartments are to be built and a new housing addition is already in the works just north of the school, which will be home to a minimum of 113 families. Now we have a traffic problem!
Wake up, people. If someone is willing to come and drop millions of dollars to correct a traffic problem our planners have created, and help our tax base by bringing new business and new jobs, I think it would be a wise move. Otherwise, maybe we should just oust the city planners and re-elect a new board. After all, they were elected by the people to represent the majority of the people, not just the local businessmen and a select group of homeowners.
Mike and Linda Berger
Warsaw, via e-mail
Stop Growth
Editor, Times-Union:You know, I really have to laugh at all the recent discussion lately on the Menards proposal and the constant dissatisfaction of Warsaw residents.
First, it was your (Gary) jab at the "NIMBY's," and most recently, the additions to those jabs by Misty and Jack. The funny thing is, not one of you people, who support such "growth" would even remotely consider moving next to a major shopping complex, nor would you want a Menards moving in next door to you.
It's always so easy to throw stones at those who don't want such things, but you wouldn't want those types of headaches either.
I'm not saying that competition isn't good for the buyer, or that expanding our town isn't good for all, but come on folks, let's play fair.
And furthermore, how much growth does Warsaw have to experience before we are satisfied? The answer is, it's never enough. The problem isn't the lack of choice, as Misty Wagley put it, the problem is that Warsaw residents are never satisfied. I remember when there wasn't a Wal-Mart for crying out loud. We get one of those, and people want Meijer's and Target. We get an Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday's and a Golden Corral, and people whine that there isn't a Lonestar or Outback Steakhouse. So we get nice restaurants, and then folks will complain that the prices are too high. I also remember a time when there was five television channels to choose from. Now, almost everyone has cable or Dish, and there's still nothing on. Everyone I know that likes coffee, loves to go to our local coffeeshops, but how many of you anti-BANANAs would flock to a Starbucks, should one come to town?
You all need to ask yourself this: Why do I live here in Warsaw and not in Fort Wayne, South Bend or Indianapolis? Answer yourself honestly now.
This Christmas, try this on for size: Stop the name calling, be happy with what you have, and love someone that doesn't deserve it. There are plenty of those around.
Scott Wickens
Warsaw, via e-mail
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- Ready For Growth - Menards Wise Move - Stop Growth
Ready For Growth
Editor, Times-Union:In response to the letters about Menards and the fact that the city does not want to grow, I say let's get some new blood in the councils. When a city council in California did not want a Wal-Mart coming to town, the community petitioned for a special election and the vote was to allow Wal-Mart to build or not to build. It passed with almost 90 percent of the vote.
We are the people and the council works for everyone in the community, not just themselves who most are small business owners or their friend, which are the same. They need to remember who voted them into office and that we are the same people that can vote them out. They need to come to the present and stop living in the 1950s. Warsaw is ready for growth and it is time we do just that.
If the councils do not allow Warsaw to grow, we will see Warsaw die and the big ortho companies will leave. What do we think brought them here in the first place? They came here because they saw into the future and they saw that Warsaw would grow. So for everyone's benefit, I say let Menards build.
Keith Gorman
Warsaw, via e-mail
Menards Wise Move
Editor, Times-Union:This is in response to the comment made by Jim Maze, owner of Ace Hardware, at the Warsaw Plan Commission meeting last week on the subject of Menards.
You said if we allowed them in, "jobs would be lost" and "it would siphon dollars out of the community." If people shopped here at Menards instead of driving to Goshen or Fort Wayne (like we do now), the money would stay here! As for jobs being lost, they will hire many more people than what few jobs would be lost if they came to town.
If your business has a product people want and you treat them right, you will stay in business even if Menards does come to town. Did you petition against the Love Bug when they came to town, only to move several blocks from your store? Certainly they present competition against your flower shop, but it is still up and running so you must be doing something right!
As far as your comment "be fair and look to the community," Menards is what the majority of we people are asking for! If so, many people weren't already driving to Menards from Warsaw, they wouldn't be looking to move here!
Everyone was so excited when Lowe's came to town, but their lumber is no match for Carter Lumber and they haven't lost their customers, neither has Builder's Mart. Why? Because they have good product and good customer service. That is just good business practice, that's what competition is all about and a good businessman knows that.
In regards to Jack Klinefelter's letter of Dec. 20, "The school's traffic problem, who allowed all the apartments across from the school?" Great letter, Jack, and I couldn't agree with you more, but maybe you weren't aware that more apartments are to be built and a new housing addition is already in the works just north of the school, which will be home to a minimum of 113 families. Now we have a traffic problem!
Wake up, people. If someone is willing to come and drop millions of dollars to correct a traffic problem our planners have created, and help our tax base by bringing new business and new jobs, I think it would be a wise move. Otherwise, maybe we should just oust the city planners and re-elect a new board. After all, they were elected by the people to represent the majority of the people, not just the local businessmen and a select group of homeowners.
Mike and Linda Berger
Warsaw, via e-mail
Stop Growth
Editor, Times-Union:You know, I really have to laugh at all the recent discussion lately on the Menards proposal and the constant dissatisfaction of Warsaw residents.
First, it was your (Gary) jab at the "NIMBY's," and most recently, the additions to those jabs by Misty and Jack. The funny thing is, not one of you people, who support such "growth" would even remotely consider moving next to a major shopping complex, nor would you want a Menards moving in next door to you.
It's always so easy to throw stones at those who don't want such things, but you wouldn't want those types of headaches either.
I'm not saying that competition isn't good for the buyer, or that expanding our town isn't good for all, but come on folks, let's play fair.
And furthermore, how much growth does Warsaw have to experience before we are satisfied? The answer is, it's never enough. The problem isn't the lack of choice, as Misty Wagley put it, the problem is that Warsaw residents are never satisfied. I remember when there wasn't a Wal-Mart for crying out loud. We get one of those, and people want Meijer's and Target. We get an Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday's and a Golden Corral, and people whine that there isn't a Lonestar or Outback Steakhouse. So we get nice restaurants, and then folks will complain that the prices are too high. I also remember a time when there was five television channels to choose from. Now, almost everyone has cable or Dish, and there's still nothing on. Everyone I know that likes coffee, loves to go to our local coffeeshops, but how many of you anti-BANANAs would flock to a Starbucks, should one come to town?
You all need to ask yourself this: Why do I live here in Warsaw and not in Fort Wayne, South Bend or Indianapolis? Answer yourself honestly now.
This Christmas, try this on for size: Stop the name calling, be happy with what you have, and love someone that doesn't deserve it. There are plenty of those around.
Scott Wickens
Warsaw, via e-mail
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