YOUR OPINION

OK Sunday hunt

Editor: With great anticipation, our sport stay in Manchester Twp. looks deliver to the probability of Sunday hunting. We have 15 hunter members from Falls to Southern Wayne county who would admire the chance to suffer other day per week in Pennsylvania’s astounding northeast woods.

Years ago you authorised open pheasant sport on our dairy plantation in South Canaan without a singular problem. Many hunters offering gifts or a assisting hand, without us ever asking.

If dairy farmers and the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau do not promoter this, only post your lands with “No Sunday Hunting” and let the lawmakers at last take a law off the list instead of inundating the open with up to 80,000 pages of new laws per year.

I know many active members of the plantation business and even that membership per county is often broken up uniformly on the subject, with the difference of Lancaster, and often a county’s plantation business opinion of 51 percent against, 49 percent for, equals all votes going against.

Many of us work Saturdays, have chores around the home and, in a instance, trainer subordinate football with games on a few Saturdays. Busy schedules do not always coexist with our preferred drop pastime, that is sport our great woods and fields, and you titillate other camps to encouragement House Bill 1760, cosponsored by our really own Rep. Ed Staback.

CURT COCCODRILLI

Sylcosan Hunting Camp

Help gas erect jobs

Editor: Instead of Luzerne and Lackawanna counties fussing about the number of trucks fleeting by on the way to gas-drilling counties, these counties should spin to their scientists at local universities to rise a outline to capture new jobs.

Luzerne and Lackawanna counties have employees to work in new industries and right away there is local gas existing to rise new industries.I changed away from the area due to insufficient of jobs; let’s emanate jobs is to stream worker.

The local universities could help pick out new technologies that could be incited in to jobs. Do not let all this gas leave Pennsylvania. By using it here, the delivery expenses are gone, that would be a extra savings for any new industry.

The Times-Tribune should beginning a new division to bring people with ideas for new jobs together with Luzerne and Lackawanna counties’ planners. The gas in other tools of the state should be a speed up to the valleys.

With new jobs, new revenues will follow.

JOYCE CHRISTINI

State College

Oldies still goodies

Editor: I’ve been getting more information letters about the Diana Ross concert.

I was not at that concert but I was at the Carole King/James Taylor concert.You have to admire these comparison musicians who are still subsequent to their passion.They should be an motivation to younger musicians today.

Carole King’s “Tapestry” manuscript still binds the sales record for a womanlike artist.Diana Ross and the Supremes were a of the most appropriate Motown groups ever.Both of these concerts were sole out.That alone shows the adulation and encouragement these comparison artists still obtain and deserve.

What reviewer Alexander Choman did was give a important comparison musician a slap in the face, that she clearly did not deserve.

I hope these comparison artists, who still have the heart of a younger artist, keep coming. It gives us “oldies” something to look deliver to.

ANN MARIE CRAIG

Dickson City

Selective memory

Editor: The 10th jubilee of 9/11 was a day of anguish for those who mislaid their lives and it was a day of memorial and commendation for those who showed great bravery and scapegoat to help save others.

Our national media, to their credit, went by great lengths to bring these counts to light.

But what the media showed as well small of on the 10th jubilee was the fact of the dishonorable, disastrous, sinful and mortal U.S. response.

We didn’t see the media citing that the U.S. reply has caused more than 50,000 fatalities and casualties to U.S. soldiers. And still you wonder, for what?

We didn’t see the media citing that the reply has caused the deaths of more than 600,000 Iraqis.

We didn’t see the media citing that the army reply to 9/11 will order as a of world history’s most destructive, stupid, irrational, vicious and sacrificial acts of fight ever undertaken by any nation.

We have seen all as well small of that arrange of reporting, but you need to. Otherwise, the actual scapegoat done by the victims of 911 will never advance to light and we’ll have schooled nothing as a nation.

BRAD KURLANCHEEK

Other members, harmony and probity center,

You Never Forget Your First — Concert, That Is

– Heather Marcella, 22, of Utica

‘Achy Breaky’ at the Aud

“When we was little, the girls of the family – my mom, sister, and I, unequivocally favourite all to do with Billy Ray Cyrus, inclusive many of the trite lyrics and songs he sang. It only so happens that a of the spots he toured was Utica at the Utica Auditorium around 1995. My father purchased building seats for (us). We all ready to go up in relating jean jackets and the entire Country Western look. we recollect feeling similar to the coolest child back then, since we was the youngest person in the throng with Billy Ray Cyrus singing to ‘My Achy Breaky Heart’ and only a few feet divided from this then renouned musician. This was unquestionably a mental recall that I’ll never dont think about and a that my mom, sister, and we always look back at and giggle about.”

– Rachel Poczatek, 24, of Utica

Lavigne value station for

My initial concert was Avril Lavigne, that was more than 6 years ago, in Buffalo.My sister Mandi paid for me a sheet and oneformy other sister. …When the day at last arrived, my heart was pumping with excitement. Once we pulled up to where the concert was being held, there was a humongous line.WhenI saw that line, we considered it would take an perpetuity to obtain in and it would be unequivocally tedious station outward forever. … Once inside, there were hundreds of sellers selling T-shirts and memorabilia. … Once we at last done it to the floor, my sisternevertold me that we had to mount up is to entire concert. This done me very mad. Also, inside of seconds, thousands of people were surrounding the stage. The room gotso stuffy, we could frequency breathe.Butonce Avril came onto the stage,she took meto anotherplace.”

– Christy Netzband, 23, of Rome

Dancing in the aisles

“My concert experience was in the late ’80s. we went to see REO Speedwagon and Richard Marx. we was so vehement and obviously danced in the aisle with my sister, something that was out of the common for me to do, deliberation we was a bit shy. Needless to say, it was an overwhelming concert.”

– Jennifer Moody, 46, of Newport

‘I do recollect it was a lot of fun’

“My initial concert mental recall was at the Utica Memorial Auditorium in the drop of 1963. we went to see The Animals, starring Eric Burden. Wow, that was a long time ago. But, it was interesting for me and my friends. We sat in a chair on the side of the skating area and the musicians were onstage – obviously a bit far away. But … we could obviously see the organisation without binoculars. They began with “The House of the Rising Sun,” and we have no idea what they finished with. we do recollect it was a lot of fun, and we skepticism they recollect ever being in Utica.”

– Judith Radford, of Rome

An ‘almost’ concert

“My initial concert was the a we roughly done it to – James Taylor at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in the summer of 1978. we was 16, and 5 friends and me gathering a Volkswagon Bug down the New York State Thruway toward Albany. Halfway there, the engine blew a rod and we coasted opposite the median to a rest area on the westbound side. The 5 of us girls pushed the automobile up the ramp to the rest area parking lot. An aged college train filled with pressed animals peering out of every window was headed to a margin days in Syracuse. The people on house offering us a float back to Utica. When we got shut to the exit in Utica they told us they would slow down to 30 mph and we would must be burst off the train there. And so we did – jumped and rolled in to the weed shoulder of the road. We never did make it to the concert – my initial roughly concert.”

– Suzanne Bakiewicz, 48, of New Hartford

American Idols on Tour

“The initial concert we ever attended was an American Idols on Tour concert in the summer of 2006. we went with my mother and a buddy and her mother…. It was my preferred year of American Idol, and we considered that the gift was amazing. Our seats were not up close, but to me, it didn’t matter. The only thing we cared about was saying the concert and saying my two preferred contestants Ace Young and Chris Daughtry. we done a T-shirt and everything. we saved allowance from babysitting to be able to buy things at the concert. we paid for a sealed print of Ace and Chris that we right away have framed in my room ….”

– Lauren Passiatore, 19, of Whitesboro

Hooked on the Grateful Dead

“My very initial concert to my correlation was the Grateful Dead, June 18, 1983, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. What an experience it was. we still even recollect some of the set list: “Bertha,” “Fire on the Mountain,” and “One More Saturday Night.” we was in startle to see so many people at this event. It was such a pacific and amatory atmosphere. we will never dont think about it. From that short time on we was hooked. To this day, we still admire listening to the song of the Grateful Dead.”

– Lisa Adamek, of Herkimer

‘I recollect it similar to it was yesterday’

“I attended my initial concert in 1983 at the age of 17. we went to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse to see Van Halen. Although it was roughly 30 years ago, we recollect it similar to it was yesterday. We were so excited, so enraptured by the rope and the atmosphere. It is unquestionably a of the firsts in life that you never forget.”

– Tracy Kinsella, 46, of Deerfield

Rocking out in ‘83

“My initial concert was Eddy Money in 1983. we was at the Stanley Theatre. we was in attendance Mohawk Valley Community College at the time and had never vanished to a concert before. It was an glorious concert. Everybody was in to the song and rocking out. Beer was being splashed on everybody on the bottom seats from the patio when he sang the song “Give Me Some Water.” He then threw his own full crater of H2O at the throng and everybody screamed. It was a indeed great show. It was my initial time to have toll in my ears.”

– Ronald Edwards, 46, of Herkimer

Front quarrel for Janet Jackson

“I was in the eighth rank and went with friends to see Janet Jackson at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. We were on foot around before the uncover when we established a tall, gaunt Hispanic human from the publication magazines. He was wearing sunglasses and a celebrity pass around his neck. Somehow, we managed to end him and speak with him. He incited out to be Janet’s then-husband … Rene Elizondo, the human Janet was always photographed with in the tabloids and media. After chatting for a bit, he gave my friends and we front-row tickets and done us guarantee to uncover Janet our admire via the concert. We did.”

– Mary Beth Harrod, 32, of Frankfort

NKOTB

“(My) initial concert was New Kids on The Block (one of my guilty pleasures in high college in the ’90s). Made outrageous signs and everything. Was in admire with Jordan Knight.”

– Barbara Belewich, 37, of Ava

Tickets went up in fume

“(The) initial and only concert we attended was at Darien Lake only last year. A garland of us went there to see Tom Petty. It was overwhelming until a of my friends – a horrifying smoker – motionless they indispensable to go fume a cigarette during the performance. Then, we found out we could not re-enter after leaving the concert area. we longed for to cry. We journeyed all that way and outlayed all that allowance flattering ample for nothing. That was a long, still float home.”

– Tiffany Parry, 23, of Bridgewater

James Taylor played Cornell

“(The) initial concert we went to was a James Taylor concert at Cornell University where my late spouse went to college from 1969-75. It was before his song was renouned in this area. It was awesome.”

– Susan Almony, 59, of Blossvale

‘Purple Rain’

“My initial concert was when we was in 11th rank and we went to the Carrier Dome to see Prince and the Revolution. we was so nervous, since we was with my buddy Sue, and my hermit and his new partner (who is right away his wife), and we were in the center of Syracuse that looked so large to me at the time. we will never dont think about how we couldn’t comprehend why people were keeping up cigarette lighters, and singing ‘Purple Rain’ at the tip of my lungs.”

- Sharon Edwards, 41, of Herkimer

Seeing Janis Joplin, quickly

“I recollect my initial concert; we was 18. My partner was funny about Janis Joplin. She begged me to go see her. She was at the Syracuse War Memorial. we was vehement being divided from home for a week end with my friends. We got to the auditorium; the place was mobbed. we was getting all cranked up being my initial concert and all. Out came Janis. She sang two songs, took a sip of Southern Comfort, mentioned two selection difference that wasn’t “Happy Birthday,” then walked off stage. My mouth dropped, the throng went wild. we mentioned ‘That’s it?’ That was the initial and last time we ever went to a concert.”

– Barbara Swisloski, 62, of Utica

‘Great times … at the Utica Aud’

“My initial concert was the Carpenters at the Utica Memorial Auditorium in the mid-70s. we moreover saw Barry Manilow, Seals and Crofts and Dionne Warwick in the ’80s at the Utica Memorial Auditorium. Some great times were had there at the Utica Aud.”

– Frank Dragotto, 56, of Ilion

Seeing stars live ‘seemed surreal’

“I’ve been a air blower of concerts as long as we can remember. It proposed with the giveaway concerts at the State Fair in the early ’70s: Sonny and Cher, Helen Reddy, and even the Lawrence Welk Show. Also during that time, we recollect saying Olivia Newton-John and Johnny Cash at the Saratoga Fair.

The initial REAL concert (where you had to buy tickets) we went to was when the Carpenters came to the Utica Auditorium. My mother took my sister and I. It seemed surreal that we was obviously saying the people we listened to every day on my record player here in my hometown. we even recollect that some local kids were selected to sing the carol of “Sing” with them.

– Leslie Langenegger, 51

An early foreword to Elton John

“My very initial concert was in New York City’s Madison Square Garden in 2002. we saw Elton John with my mother, parents mother and aunt. we wasn’t a outrageous air blower of Elton John (seeing as we was only 9 years old), but we recollect how the entire throng proposed singing along when he sang “Candle in the Wind” and “Bennie and the Jets.” we moreover recollect being shocked at how large the venue was. Unfortunately, those were the only two songs we remember, since we obviously fell defunct during the uncover – 10 p.m. was a late night for me at that age.”

– Stephanie Borowiec, 19, of Whitesboro

‘Still revolutionary concert-goers’

“My initial concert mental recall for me and my wife was in 1970, my initial year in college at Morrisville Ag Tech. College. The group: Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. Who would have guessed Kenny would go on to turn Kenny Rogers, super nation balladeer for 4 decades and still counting. … we believe the concert was hold possibly in an aged meeting house on campus or in the sports hall and was giveaway to students (with) a tyro ID. … What unequivocally struck me was how ample more “alive” the song becomes when you see someone live contra listening to a record album, CD, or the radio. … Back then, no lighters flickered and no rowdiness; only a great time was had by all. My wife and we are still revolutionary concert-goers, subsequent to the likes of James Taylor, Carol King, Kenny Rogers, Vince Gill, Paul Simon, Kenny Loggins, George Strait, Sugarland and Lady Antebellum.”

– Jim Lenahan, 60, of Whitesboro

Whenever I See Your Smiling Face

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