Denbigh area
Re “Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones makes case for investing in city during White House visit” (June 2): The Newport News mayor is appealing for more federal funds for the city. Where is it going to be spent? According to the article, we have received $211 million. The Southeast Community is being revitalized, sounds wonderful.
However, how about the rest of Newport News, i.e., the northern Denbigh area? I can’t see any evidence that 1 penny has been spent. We keep having meetings to show us beautiful artists’ rendering of the Denbigh corridor. I am sure someone is making big bucks on those, but it is all just talk, no action. The only thing to happen is Kmart was torn down so now they can use that area for weekend cheesy events.
I am pretty sure Newport News Councilman Marcellus L. Harris III and Vice Mayor Curtis D. Bethany III are supposed to be representing us, but I have seen no evidence of that. When public housing buildings were torn down, many of those folks received vouchers and they moved to Denbigh. But no money came this way.
I would challenge City Council and community members to drive on Warwick Boulevard from Oyster Point to the city line and tell me one area that is esthetically pleasing, with the exception of the little white Mennonite church. Lee Hall is a food desert and has been for years. Where is our $2 million to build a grocery store? We are here, Mayor Phillip Jones, and we need some help also.
Joyce Southern, Newport News
Satan club
Re “When Satan Club went to school: What’s behind the group that created controversy in Chesapeake” (May 27): Thank you for the article regarding the facts about the After-School Satan Club. It was hard to find actual information due to all the fuss. So they don’t believe in Satan after all.
Satan believes in them and how I know is that he used them to deceive and create confusion and pain for many people. The offense to the sponsor’s child was repaid by the parent seeking out and deploying ways to create offense to as many people with spiritual awareness of evil as possible. All organizations that work toward development of children into civil adults could benefit by adding this tenet, “Don’t be easily offended,” to their list. Adults will also benefit by spending a moment recalling this.
Andrea Geyer, Chesapeake
Thank you
Recently four of us 70-plus-year-old gal-friends attended a Norfolk Tides baseball game — the first for three of us. The Tides staff could not have been more accommodating, from the lady who helped direct us to the correct entrance, to the gentleman at the entrance directing us to the elevator, to the gentleman who dried off our seats since it had been raining, and to the cleaner who turned in my lost wallet.
We thoroughly enjoyed the game even though the weather was not cooperating because we were made to feel so welcome. Well done, Tides staff.
Péré S. Morris, Hampton
Liberal Jesus
Re “Be virtuous” (Your Views, May 5): This letter reminded me of frequent conversations with my late father. After railing about all the ills of our country and how he worries about the future for his grandchildren, he would invariably blame it all on liberals. I would then remind him that Jesus was a liberal and because my dad was deeply religious, he always immediately changed the subject, leading to constructive conversation.
Bill Leber, Chesapeake
Election letters
Letters about the June 20 primary election will be published through Friday, space permitting. Please submit those letters by 5 p.m. on Wednesday.