Ed Note, I’m answering “short on change,” the reader who complained about the $2 admission to the Italian American Festival and the cost of rides and food. Tell these people to stay home. We don’t need them! I’m an Italian American and I think this is a wonderful heritage festival. You don’t want to eat the food or put your kids on the rides because it’s too expensive?, Stay the heck home! You don’t want to pay $2 admission? Stay the heck home! Who do you think pays for cleaning up all that mess after you are finished throwing your garbage on the ground? Who do you think picks up all the garbage in the buckets and cleans the bathrooms? Do you think there’s maid service? We need people at the festival who are enthusiastic, invigorating, and want to keep this heritage going. The man who arranged this festival worked very very hard. I know because I am on the committee. So, tell them to stay the hell home. It’s a shame that in this country, they don’t deserve nice things. They knock everything good down. I see in the paper each day murder and what not going on. Why can’t we enjoy life?

Life is so short.

And as Rodney King beckoned to the world, “Can’t we all just get along?”— Ed. Note