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Our Readers Speak — Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Speedway needs to fix its seating problems





I wanted to say how much my husband and I enjoy the racing at Beckley Speedway. It is a great dirt-track-racing fun.

I only have a problem with the seating arrangements. Every time we go there, all the choice seating is taken on the top bleachers no matter what time we go. The race officials are allowing people to come early and nail their chairs to the bleachers. We don’t think this is fair to the ones who get there first.

They have a row on the top that a lot of plastic chairs are nailed down also and now allowing others to nail down their chairs, too. Some of these people do not come until race time so the chairs are there for them when they get there. I almost tripped over a nail trying to get through to our seats.

We pay our money to see the races just like they do, so give us a break and stop allowing this to happen.

Take out the plastic chairs and let race fans who come early have their choice of a place to sit.



Shirley A. Treadway

Oak Hill



Past flooding not simply ‘an act of God’





Let us not pretend that the floods in the summer of 2001 that devastated this region were merely an “act of God.” They were in fact a culmination of clear-cut logging, mountaintop removal, and steady rainfall. I am not saying these floods would not have occurred in the absence of mining or logging, but the amount of flooding and damage was greatly increased by the overwhelming presence of both industries in the are.

This disaster should have served as a wake-up call in 2001. Yet seven years later, we are still removing timber and mountaintops at an even faster rate than ever before in our state’s history.

The residents of southern West Virginia deserve better and should demand action immediately. Demand more — effective government oversight for surface mining permits, as well as more oversight on current operations.

The people of this region and their safety should always come first, before coal profits, before state revenue, before big business, and most importantly before its too late.

God bless the citizens of our beautiful Mountain State.



Todd A. Kirby

Fairdale



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