Comments on: WAYNE CREED Response to ‘Arts Festival Is Essence of Development’

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 02:57:12 +0000

Hey, Ron — Go back and re-read that commentary and please sir, tell me what has changed? I have been to a couple of council meetings and they are clearly not listening to anyone.

By: Ron Wrucke

Ron Wrucke — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:52:51 +0000

Hey, Wayne — Go back and read the following post-election commentary:
http://capecharleswave.com/2014/05/commentary-setting-the-registers-to-zero/
And then set your register to zero — Please!

By: Anne Teele

Anne Teele — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:34:50 +0000

Amen to that. Move on and move forward.

By: Jim Henderson

Jim Henderson — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:48:02 +0000

I was born and raised on the Shore. After high school I left for better job opportunities but I have always kept up with the what is happening on the Eastern Shore. The Wave is one of my sources for that. Ms. Bender I am sure you are a fine lady but the message you are trying to convey gets lost in the anger of your tone. I believe it is time to for you to let it go and enjoy everything that Eastern Shore livin’ has to offer. Do you really think the population as a whole cares if there is a community basketball court?

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:52:41 +0000

Well I for one was at the center of the fight to save our historic school and make it into a community center, as many readers of the Wave know. The way our elected officials and our paid officials handled the entire thing was disgusting, dirty, and underhanded to say the least. I am ashamed to call Cape Charles my home town most of the time. The only reason we stay here is because this town is where my husband grew up and we have too much invested to just leave. So much could have been done with grants and fundraisers to the school and it would have made a wonderful community center for everyone to enjoy. The town officials promised a new basketball court but I am not sure just where it is. Oh that’s right — they lied about that too. Shame on you all for what you all did to our school.

By: Dana Lascu

Dana Lascu — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 05:08:50 +0000

There’s nothing hidden about this writer’s agenda. He is lamenting what the event could have been had there been some forethought on the part of town leadership. Gratuitous, unreflective cheerleading has as much substance as that kitchy love sign at the beach.

By: Ida Thomas

Ida Thomas — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:22:41 +0000

After reading this submission several times I am at a loss for words. Why would you publish such comments that were not even remotely connected to our wonderful “Harbour for the Arts Festival” but was laced with a hidden agenda. Shameful!

EDITOR’S RESPONSE: We trust that readers understand that comments in the WAVE are the opinions of the writers and not of the newspaper. On occasion we decline to print a comment, such as when a spitting match is developing between commenters. That’s when the real wrath descends on the WAVE with cries of “censorship.”

By: Wayne Creed

Wayne Creed — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:57:19 +0000

Ho hum indeed! Glad to see you have adapted to the Cape Charles status quo, as you’re about 2 1/2 years too late for anything — and there was never a vote to be had, as it was determined that you, as a citizen, do not have standing to say one way or another. That doesn’t mean you can’t kvetch, baby! Had you been to any OSCC meetings, or crab or oyster feasts, or yard sales, or read our proposals, or inquires to the Department of Historic Resources, or been aware of our corporate and political contacts, or just even talked to me, you would have been well aware of the good, practical, workable, sustainable alternatives. It may all be water under the bridge now, but it should be noted that the baseline (your freedom) has shifted right under your feet. Memory is weak; it fades, and each new baseline eventually becomes an eroded version of the last one. As each baselines shifts, we never see how much we’ve lost. In the early days of the Soviet Union, the purges were bloody because people had keen memories of what they had and what they had lost. A few generations later, it was pretty quiet as nobody remembered or knew the difference; they just shut up and drank kvass. While you keep yawning, I’ll keep remembering, trying to envision the old baseline — drinking martinis and kvetching about it!

By: Anne Teele

Anne Teele — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:45:44 +0000

Huh? Ho-hum. I haven’t heard any good, practical, workable, sustainable solutions from the opposing camp to address the old high school controversy. If I only knew where to get that information, maybe I’ll vote for it.