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THE PRESS AND POMERLEAU
In his September 27 Fair Game column, John Walters highlighted the Burlington Free Press’ recent special section honoring Tony Pomerleau. Walters is so desperate for an opportunity to tear down the Free Press that he chooses to cast aspersions on one of our community’s most generous citizens. Yes, Pomerleau is a self-made man and, in the process, may very well leave future generations of his family financially comfortable, but he has also given millions to this community to help people in desperate need. Pomerleau has given to a diverse array of organizations and institutions, from health and human services to arts and culture. So the crux of Walters’ condescension is that the Free Press sold space in their publication so that people in our community could celebrate this altruistic man on his 100th birthday? How is what the Free Press did any different than Seven Days’ annual Daysies awards? Before the final votes are cast, Daysies nominees pay for ads trying to sway readers’ opinions, and, once the winners are announced, ads from victors in every category pop up all over the pages of that week’s edition of Seven Days. You’re really going to disparage a centenarian who ensures that less fortunate children have a holiday party and that fireworks fill Burlington’s skies on Independence Day just so you can stick it
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to the Freeps? I think you’re just miffed that you didn’t think of it first. Tamira Martel
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PARK VERSUS PLAZA
The new plan for Burlington City Hall Park confuses plazas with parks [Off Message: “Burlington Residents React to Latest City Hall Park Redesign,” August 14]. A plaza is a paved space for flexible and dense public use such as weekly markets, buskers and theatrical productions. In Burlington, this is Church Street, which we could well expand as a pedestrian grid. A city park is entirely different. Frederick Law Olmsted tells us that parks should improve the quality of urban life for all classes of people by counteracting the artificiality and stress of the built environment using natural pastoral elements. Jane Jacobs reminds us that small city parks easily reached on foot by seniors and toddlers have a special function. They serve seniors with game tables and conversational benches and toddlers with natural play elements. Does the current proposal measure up? Sadly, it fails. Absent are the features the elderly need for repose and social engagement. They can’t even be assured of restrooms. Spaces for running and climbing by small children are replaced with a granite spout-fountain — hardedged and slippery. There are no changing rooms. Trees are sacrificed in favor