Letters

To the editor:

An open letter to Sunset Beach Mayor Pro Tem Benton:

Mr. Benton:

As presiding mayor pro tem, citizens expect you to be respectful and remain neutral. At the March 19 council meeting, you stated “there are only four or five people in this town trying to stop dredging.”

To the editor:

In the Beacon’s “Towns” section on March 14, movement of a monument at the Shallotte Armory to Mulberry Park was credited to the VFW. This is a wonderful vets organization; however, they had nothing to do with the monument.

I am the last Past Commander of Nocha White American Legion Post 247 in Shallotte until merging with Calabash American Legion Post 503 in 1999.

To the editor:

After 15 years of paying my taxes into Sunset Beach, watching money being spent on projects orchestrated by a chosen few, being insulted for asking for maintenance to fix a pothole and now watching thousands of tax dollars funneled into an experiment called “Dredging of Jinks Creek,” where is the sanity?

Councilman Cerrato should be embarrassed and insulted; escorted out of chambers for being disruptive was necessary. Mayor Pro Tem Benton should have shut down the meeting entirely and sent everyone to the parking lot.

To the editor:

I have lived a long time and can now be called “elderly” without hurting my feelings. I remember watching “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Sundays. There were about three Lincoln or Mercury car ads in the one-hour program. As a kid, I looked forward to them to dream about someday owning one of the beautiful cars.

I don’t, however, find today’s pillow commercials quite as warm and fuzzy, particularly when I see them 23 times a day. I spend more time dreaming with my head on my pillow.