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NOVEMBER 11-17, 2009 UCW 5 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM LETTERS LETTERS Dear Editor: Thank you so much for this week's article by Publisher Bill Bowman on " Where are our American heroes?". I have been screaming inwardly daily about all the crimes, plus those who are narrow-minded politicians following a narcissistic, egotistical and sycophantic president to lead this country, which I love with all my heart ever since I was accepted as a U.S. citizen 45 years ago. Again thank you and best wishes always. Sincerely, Lu Erwin Dear Editor: I was looking at your Web site today and read your article by Bill Bowman about the need for heroes in America. Well done! I couldn't agree more. Just wanted to let you know that you are, in my opinion, right on target. Your article was well written and to the point. Thanks. Douglas Frye Dear Editor: Excellent article by Bill Bowman. I have been asking that question for years. I believe I have the answer. The late George Carlin stated it begins with language. If you research any of his concerts, you shall find he just wasn't trying to be funny. He was trying to send a message. Old-time comics always tried to make certain points with their routines. He was all about language and hated the softening of it. We are allowing our rights to be slowly taken away from us each day. I do believe that the FOX News all-stars are a little too much in drama, but their points are valid. We are getting it sugar-coated on TV, radio, and yes, even in the newspapers. We need someone who isn't corrupt. Who is that person or persons? Guys like you, who tell it like it is. Maybe we should ask Robert T. R aiford on ROCK 103 to continue to tell us how it used to be... People continuously trying to soften the English language need to be placed somewhere where they can't hurt anyone. If you want more info, I can certainly provide it. I just don't think you could print any of it. Anyway, thanks for a great piece of writing, Tell the movie critic she is improving (only a little). Joe@Myong's Grill & Buffet Dear Editor, My wife and I were pleasantly pleased when LocksCreek Seafood Grill opened about a year ago. We enjoy eating out and we try most new restaurants that are advertised in the Fayetteville Observer or in Up & Coming. In the past year we have probably eaten at LocksCreek at least a half a dozen times. We liked the food, service and atmosphere. We both were saddened and simultaneously angered when we read that this wonderful restaurant was closed because they failed to pay their state taxes. Saddened because such a good restaurant with a different flair was being closed and angered because of its gross mismanagement. In Mr. Bowman's article concerning the restaurant's encounter with the North Carolina Tax' Office, he seems to rail against the state government for doing their job instead of pointing his finger at the person(s) really responsible for what happened. Why isn't your article focused on the irresponsible managing of the restaurant instead of suggesting that the tax office is out to ruin new entrepreneurs? Every time I have eaten their my bill is broken down into what the meal cost and what North Carolina charged for tax. Is it so difficult to separate the tax charged and then set that amount aside in order to pay North Carolina what they are lawfully owed? Mr. Bowman sites at least a half dozen other newly established restaurants in his article and there are over a hundred others listed in the dining guide, are any of them being closed because they didn't pay their taxes? Maybe Mr. Summers (and his small group of investors) needs to take some tips from those managers as to how to pay what you owe or enroll in some management courses from FTCC or somewhere else. My wife and I are happy that LocksCreek Seafood Grill is again open. We intended to patronize it because we think it is one of the better eating establishments in Fayetteville. I just hope what I pay on my tab and is marked as tax goes to where it is suppose to go. Dennis McCool 84% of our readers use our advertisers. Why take chances? For Sales & Marketing CALL 484-6200 * *

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