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(Editor’s note: Call The Bee at 632-0390 and record a one-minute comment on our Bee Heard line. It gives readers an opportunity to comment quickly and candidly on items of local or regional interest. Callers do not have to identify themselves and no callers’ names will be used. In the interest of fairness and good taste, The Bee will not publish derogatory or insulting comments. All comments are by our readers and are subject to editing.

.Amherst Supervisor Satish Mohan and his supporters claim that the town board is preventing him from keeping his campaign promises. This is untrue on far too many points to even begin to enumerate! However, it is clear

that it was not the town board that had anything to do with his breaking of his promise to work for $1 per year. Certainly, the town board would never object to that.

.Thus far, the only so-called success of Satish Mohan is that he has single-handedly lowered taxpayers’ expectations of the office of supervisor. Taxpayers no longer expect the supervisor to have accurate facts and figures. Taxpayers now are used to the supervisor continuously spouting off pie-in-the-sky promises and pronouncements without any facts or figures to back them up.

.“Lost” at the Williamsville Cemetery! At least a third time the Christmas wreath has disappeared from my mother and dad’s grave. Is there any more despicable thing that could happen than removing memorial decorations from a grave site? Please call 911 if you see any suspicious person walking away from the cemetery with wreath in hand.

.Fairness and good taste isn’t about words, people or attitude. It’s about people’s actions. I’ve lived in Audubon for seven years; this is a good area in which to live. This is not a poor neighborhood, and yet neighbors continue to show themselves in bad taste and unfair to their neighbors in their behavior. There is a Dumpster near where I live; I see it through my living room window, which is the only window in my entire living area. This weekend someone put four vehicle tires in the Dumpster. My garage charges me $2.50 per tire for environmental reasons to dispose of them. Why should this person just dump them near the

Dumpster, where I have to look at them? Now I have to call my landlord to have maintenance remove them. I live in an apartment, not a house, but I don’t think I should be treated in a substandard manner! We do pay rent!

.My 84-year-old mother regularly attends the senior center for lunch and to play cards. Last Wednesday she came home early, saying it was too cold. Many other people were complaining, too, and wearing their coats. The staff told her they were ordered to reduce the temperature. Now I read that it was Ms. Bucki’s idea. Doesn’t she realize that the elderly often have medical problems that affect their capacity to tolerate the cold? Shame on you, Ms. Bucki! And thank you, Mr. O’Loughlin, for caring about senior citizens!

.I, for one, did call regarding the bump, bump, bump on Maple Road. I respect the reply of last week;

however, sanding the bump in the seam area should nicely take care of the bumps to which I referred.

.We in Dana Heights think it’s time for electric lights as street lights. This is not the 18th century, but the 21st century. Let’s get modern, Dr. Mohan! Presently there are 150 gas lights out and for the other half, candles would be brighter. Put this on your agenda.

.When the town board starts to rename some of the streets or names some of the newer ones, I hope they don’t start any of them with “oak.” We have Oakland, Oakgrove, Oakwood, oak-this and oak-that. Not only does it make it difficult for firefighters, it makes it difficult for postal workers. I am forever getting mail for another “oak” street.

.When will the Williamsville Public Works begin picking up storm debris around Ellicott Creek, Island Park and beyond?