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Date published: 5/31/2010
They're back! The carpetbaggers (National Trust, Hollywood elites, distinguished gentlemen from Vermont and Texas) are back meddling in Orange County business. The May 20 article ["Wilderness on Trust's "] restated opponents' opinion that Walmart endangers the Wilderness battlefield. Opponents are wrong. Ignore for an instant that Orange County made a great deal with Walmart. The store is needed in Orange, the residents voted for it, and the Orange Planning Commission and the supervisors approved the plan. I volunteer thousands of hours a year The site is not on land used by the war. But what is shocking about the National Trust's position is that Walmart offered I've often searched for a place to post notices of events in this area. The display offer would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising to the same people suing Orange County and wasting our money for a lost cause. Walmart proposed to make the display cases available to the National Trust, Friends of the Wilderness, the National Park Service, and others. If these opponents have so much time and money, why don't they help us and the Park Service clean up the snow-damaged trees on Hill Ewell Drive that litter the battlefield and are a hazard to visitors? In all my volunteer time, I have not seen any of them doing the real work to maintain the Wilderness battlefield. Yes, the Wilderness is endangered, not from Walmart but from the elitist "not in my backyard" people in these organizations who lack common sense. Bob Johnson Orange
equates to physical labor, I guess. But to me, doing what I can to protect battlefield land from rampant development, be it Walmart or someone else, IS real work. With a bit of common sense this issue could be resolved to everyone's satisfaction and Walmart's and the county's and the nation's benefit. Why can't we get this done?
Bob Johnson's "thousands of hours a year" in volunteer time amounts to at least a full-time job with no vacation (2080 hours). Why is it I don't see him there during my couple of hundred volunteer hours in the Wilderness Battlefield each year? That's about as fanciful a statement as "Walmart will only enhance the Wilderness experience." A great place to post announcements about upcoming events, in "huge glass display cases." What more could we ask? And, they've also promised some pretty battle pictures
The Whining about ?,, Most of those Rich People Homes are On Battle field Grounds, Lets Make them Move ! The Wal Mart will Not be on The field of Battle. Make no Mistake , IT will be Built , The County will Not Turn Away all those Tax Dollars and why Should They? The Ferry Farm Store met with these same type of People with Too Much time of their hands.. Shut Up, The People of Orange Want Wal Mart.Build it, Enough pissin an moaning !
one of the first big companies to do profit sharing for everyone? how could they be thought of as carpetbaggers. get real this is all about the unions and their fellow travelers afraid of walmart
is in the North? North of Mexico maybe...
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