Recently there was an article in the Valley News about senior centers having to cut corners because of less funding (“Loss of dessert yields bitter truth,” Dec. 1). Contributing to this shortage is that there are a few people who can afford to pay who are not paying the meager fee of $3 for a meal plus all the coffee they can drink to help support the cause.
These people know who they are and should be ashamed of themselves. Wake up and realize you are hurting other seniors who pay their fair share.
BOB DePETRILLO
and HENRY DESSERT
Lebanon
The writers are a current and a former volunteer, respectively, at the Upper Valley Senior Center.
For more than two years I have opined on homelessness and my plan to end it. Not one person has contacted me those many months.
In the Army, I was in the Signal Corps. There are many corps in the Army. There are more than a million troops stationed in the U.S. Why couldn’t a Homeless Corps be formed?
The could gather the millions of homeless who are harmless and set them up in the abandoned military bases in the United States. They could live with them We’re all God’s children.
ROGER SMALL
Claremont
Marlboro Music’s commitment to a 99-year lease and construction of two buildings for its two-month summer season prevents redevelopment of the soon-to-be-closed Marlboro College campus (“Marlboro College to give away school’s assets,” Nov. 7). Marlboro Music’s financial interest there is likely to be bought out or compensated to move to an equivalent college campus.
How about a retirement and assisted living community for elder professional artists and performers?
Attracted by the Rudolf and Irene Serkin Center for the Performing Arts, new Snyder Center for the Visual Arts, Persons Auditorium, Whittemore Theater and Drury Gallery, and Marlboro Music’s speculative new construction, these synergistic, self-governing, creative elders would enliven the campus year-round as never before.
Imagine attending exhibitions and performances there.
HOWARD FAIRMAN
Putney, Vt.