Demonstrating that the Sun papers are your go-to source for hard-hitting news — at least the type that might set tongues a-twitter in some place like Ottoville, Ohio (pop. 900) — this week’s Sun Press features a front-page story titled “Shaker Square’s holiday lights not pleasing to all.”
http://www.cleveland.com/shaker-heights/index.ssf/2011/12/shaker_squares_holiday_lights.html
This important investigative report reveals that longtime Shaker Heights resident Margaret Walton, “who moved to a nearby apartment building three years ago,” is unhappy that Shaker Square owner the Coral Company has retired the square’s old colored holiday lights for new white ones. While Coral’s vice-president of marketing Joan L. Mennett reveals that Coral “spent a lot of money on nice white lights for the holidays,” Walton sniffs that they should have maintained the old lights.
Last year they had all the trees lit and decorated and it was quite lovely, said Walton, who always appreciated the holiday displays at the square as she has admired it [sic] for decades.
Walton is the only complainant cited in the story, so it’s unclear if the thousands of other residents of the Shaker Square area are breaking out the torches and pitchforks over this breach in beloved tradition.
But it’s not all dissension and unrest on the Shaker Square Christmas décor front.
This article appears in Dec 7-13, 2011.
Even though I agree this isnt the most moving of articles to write or read I have to say if that is the only thing they have to report then good for them. Its a lot better then reading about someone being murdered at Shaker Square!
I don’t really think news has to be a steady diet of murder and violence, but the other side of the coin does not have to be so boring and without interest. Politics can be fun, but not if people remain so hateful and fearful of the other peoples ideas which seem to differ. We have lost the ability to find common ground within our religious and political beliefs, and we have allowed politicians and popes and Evangelist and radical sides of Islam, to separate us as people..or the idea of being a legal citizen of the USA or an immigrant without papers. Do you know that the original WOP acronym for Italian Americans stood for With Out Papers. We called our recent immigrants wops and they all helped build America along with slaves and indentchered servants and Chinese rail road workers and Spanish people from all over. We are not English! We are Americans…and not just the blow-hards on the right who somehow have made the real American a white prick who thinks they are better than everyone and they are getting their precious dollars and assets taken away by poor folk and illegal immigrants..So I just wrote some news or opinions or trivial facts…Just remember we have all been WOP s at sometimes or another. Little different from a dog who has no license…Did you know Frank Russo controlled dog licenses for decades?