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Text The Times.

After attending fireworks displays in several different cities, I can say that our own West Memphis fireworks show cannot be beat. They were beautiful and the newspaper covered the event nicely. Thanks to all! [ Editor’s Note: Freedom Fest is hard to beat. They always have things to do while waiting for it to get dark, the show is great and, of course, it’s all free… and by that I mean, “ free to the public.” I know the show is a significant financial invest-ment by the city in terms of paying for the fireworks, the security, and the other expenses, so kudos to West Memphis for continuing the annual celebration!]

*** I don’t know who the manager is at _____ but they had 2 of the rudest men there today I thought the manager should know I’ll never go back.

[ Editor’s Note: As I’ve mentioned before, as a general rule, I’m not going to run this sort of text ( as I’m sure you wouldn’t want your business being criti-cized in a public fourm with no way of rebutting).

I’m sorry you had an unpleasant experience at one of our local businesses. I’ve mentioned it before, but even though it’s nothing anyone wants to do, management really does want to know when a customer has an unpleasant experience. Back when I was in that line of work, we went through a customer service training session. During that session, we were told that 90 percent of people who have a bad experience with a business say nothing to the business’ management. Of those 90 percent, approximately 90 percent of those people will tell at least three friends about their bad experience, thus amplifying the damage done by the bad experience. What I’m saying is, give the manager a call. You don’t even have to give your name. Just tell them about your experience and leave it at that. Then you’ve done what you could to help the business and its future customers. As an add- on, that same seminar said that 70 percent of customers who have a bad experience with a business will go back at least two more times, so maybe you can give them another shot?]

*** Fireworks are fun I get it but after midnight???

Some of us have to get up and go to work in the morning! Why arent the police shutting it down at a reasonable hour?

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH [Editor’s Note: Yeah, there’s celebrating the 4th of July, and then there’s taking it a little too far. My dog didn’t like the fireworks either! My family actually had our big Fourth of July blowout on the Third of July. Not only did we not have to get up and go to work after the big celebration, but we also beat the rain and wetnesss.

But to your point, like on Halloween, it’s fun to trick-or treat, but after a certain time, it’s time to quit knocking on doors.

For fireworks, I think 10 o’clock would be a good time to call it a night. If you start around dusk and are still lighting up bottle rockets and such at 10, you probably spent too much on fireworks.

*** I just read the text in today’s paper about the problems with the 3 and 4 wheelers in Crawfordsville. I totally agree with the person. It is terrible on how fast they drive. They don’t stop at stop signs and will pull out in front of you. And if you don’t watch, they have been known to come through people’s yard.

Some thing needs to be done!! [ Editor’s Note: This is one of those things where there are already regulations governing this behavior, it’s just a matter of enforcing it. It probably wouldn’t take but a couple of tickets to take care of it.

And sure, some folks would be mad, but I’ll take a mad folks over injured folks every day of the week]

*** Earle City Worker washing the mayor’s personal car on city time! Got to be a law against that? Saw this on July 1. Council woman Sarah Johnson and council man Kenneth Cross both saw him. I’m just wondering why a city worker is washing the mayor’s private vehicle while on the clock for the city??? [ Editor’s Note: Well, that is actually a pretty good question. I don’t have a good answer ( that I can print), but it’s a good question]

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