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Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009

Letters to the editor

One home team

I wonder how the people of this county can call the Northside-Warner Robins game a major rivalry, except in principle alone. The two schools, Northside High School and Warner Robins High School, are, in my opinion, only rivals because they are two different schools in different parts of the city.

They do not and cannot even boast a home field advantage, well except for Warner Robins. There is no mystique of having to travel to the other team’s house to play because they both share the same house. There is no pre-game speech by the home team coach about not letting them come in and “push us around in our own backyard” because the backyard has no fence and no boundary. There cannot be any trash talking on the field by the players stating that this is “our house” because they both share the same room.

If football is a religion in this part of Middle Georgia, then why do the elite teams in the area all share the same playing field? In my opinion, there is only one home team in the entire area, Warner Robins High School, and all the other local schools are host teams.

Not being able to snap a long losing streak on the other team’s home turf is something these players will not be able to experience until they get to the next level.

So I guess that just having bragging rights for a year will suffice until they go at it again and just switch the names of the teams from visitor to home on the same scoreboard.

— Juan Johnson

Bonaire

Plain English

Oct. 23, The Telegraph published on page 5B: “PUBLIC NOTICE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.”

What kind of meaningless gibberish is this that comes from our Board of Education?

Can’t they speak English that common folk can understand?

If the director of special programs wrote (or approved) this garbage, no wonder the education system in this country is in the toilet.

— Ken Brown

Byron

Another step

The city and county governments did a wonderful thing by banning billboards from the Warner Robins and Houston County portion of the Russell Parkway extension. Take a look at the Peach County side the next time you are in that area.

We are now plagued by another blight in the form of stick-in-the-ground signs advertising everything from roof repair, haircuts, new homes, etc. All free advertising space at taxpayer expense. This week, I counted 15 signs at one intersection, and to me, it is just another form of litter. There ought to be a law. Actually, I thought there was one.

— David Ryburn

Warner Robins