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May 28, 2000

Opponents of gas station are "crybabies"

To the Editor:

I just have one thing to say to the residents of Cider Creek, Hickory Oaks and River Bend subdivisions. You're all a bunch of crybabies! The only reason you guys aren't in jail is because of a liberal interpretation of the First Amendment!

So what if there's a gas station next door? Don't you know how many other suburban residents would kill to have a conveniently located gas station? Ooooh, the 7-Eleven has magazines with dirty pictures. Like children have never seen skin before! Besides, don't you teach your children to look both ways before crossing the street?

The way you guys have treated OUR MAYOR is shameful! If it weren't for Mayor Claar, we would have been gobbled up by Naperville years ago. Mayor Claar is the reason you crybabies wanted to move to Bolingbrook in the first place. You guys thank him by acting like a bunch of overgrown college radicals! Shame.

Unrestricted development is what makes Bolingbrook the village that it is today. By restricting development with your protests, you endanger the livelihood of every village resident. You should be willing to put up with the stench of gas in order to save your neighbor's job!

As for the Village Board. Shame on you! Your timid silence forced Roger to withdraw a sensible amendment to the Village Code. Everyone of you should have been rushing to his defense. None of you are worthy to sit in the same room with Mayor Claar.

Residents of Bolingbrook, our Mayor needs help. Let him know that you support another gas station. Then next year, vote for the only party that really supports Mayor Claar.

David Nelson
Chairman of The Roger Claar Party

February 22, 2000

Leave us alone!

To the Editor:

I don't know who you are or why you are doing this but you must stop! I am a Past President, as well as Senator & Ambassador and you are a jerk! The Bolingbrook Jaycees are a great group of folks trying to do some good things in our village - Perhaps the group you are talking about in your article is the Bolingbrook Grey Core! Get your facts straight and try to come out from behind your lines of crap that you could not get a comment. Our organization does not appreciate your garbage being spread with our name on it. I challenge you to attend one of our meeting and spew your garbage - try taking a look at our real projects!

Mary Anne Hoeller
President 91-92

November 23, 1999

Spell it right!

To the Editor:

You people are so clueless! In your article about the so-called tornado magnet, you misspelled Lewis University. It's not spelled Louis, you idiots! Couldn't you have at least checked the phone book before writing this article? If you can't spell the name of the university, how can I believe anything you write about it?

I'd expect a mistake like this from The Met, or even The Sun. Their reporters don't live in the Bolingbrook area. But you guys have been here since Bolingbrook was founded! You should know better.

The Babbler needs to hire a copy editor right away. No, I've got a better idea. The Babbler should hire a clue editor, because your reporters desperately need a clue!

Tom Musselman

"Lewis" University Student

Bolingbrook, IL

Copy Editor David Mazzeo responds:

The only people who use the "Lewis" spelling are either anti-French bigots, illiterate, or people who were assigned the incorrect spelling by an immigration official, and are too lazy to correct their family records. Which one are you?

October 30, 1999

Support the Roger Claar Mayoral Library

To the Editor:

There's no doubt in my mind that Roger Claar is the best mayor in the history of Bolingbrook. His courageous leadership has lead to Bolingbrook's unprecedented growth and prosperity. Mayor Daley can only look with envy at the way our village is managed. This is truly a golden age for Bolingbrook, and we owe it all to Mayor Claar.

While Claar isn't going to be stepping down any time soon, it's never to early to think about thanking him for his years of service. I can think of no greater honor than the creation of a mayoral library in his honor. A special place to store all of his papers, and notes, as well as place where people can learn about this great humanitarian.

Yes it is unusual to create a library to honor a mayor. That honor is usually reserved for Presidents. Claar's achievements, however, are certainly worthy of any past-President. Besides, if President Clinton can have a library, then our Mayor Claar absolutely deserves one of his own.

Which is where your readers come in. We at the Roger Claar Mayoral Library Foundation want to raise the funds for the library through private donation only. No taxpayer dollars will go towards the creation of this noble monument. Your donation will go towards the construction of not only the main library area, but for the gift shop, book shop, fountain, cafe, life-sized sculpture, and four-star restaurant. That's not all. Anyone who donates $10,000 or more will become a member of the Friends of Roger Club. Club members will have access to the VIP lounge, with its wet-bar and big screen TV.

Construction is slated to begin immediately after Mayor Claar's last term. We expect Lemont to be annexed by Bolingbrook by then, and the library will be built over their excuse for a downtown.

Please help us remember the mayor who has made Bolingbrook memorable. Your donation is the least you can do to say, "Thank you Roger!"

Pete Grimm

President of the Roger Claar Mayoral Library Foundation

Bolingbrook, IL

October 1, 1999

Space Elevator too dangerous

To the Editor:

In October, the Village Board will vote on whether to allow construction of a Space Elevator on the former site of Old Chicago. I urge you to call the Village government and tell them no!

We do not need a 10 mile high structure within our city limits. Can you imagine how large a shadow this thing will cast? The amount of daylight Bolingbrook recieves will be cut in half by this elevator. Also, what if this thing were to fall down? The devistation could reach as far as north as Warrenville, or as far south as Joliet! If that weren't bad enough, the proposed site is in the middle of three flight paths. Airplanes could be crashing into this elevator on a daily basis. It's insane.

I know that Mayor Claar wants to have the world's tallest structure built in Bolingbrook, but a Space Elevator is not the answer! In the long run, it will destroy the local economey as busineses and residents try to move as far away from it as possible. I have no problem with the idea of a space elevator, but not in my backyard!

Rich Longfellow

Bolingbrook, IL

Renters are a fine addition to communities.

To the Editor:

I would like to thank Marjorie Jane Carter for the fine welcome into the village of Bolingbrook. I am moving into the area on October 1st, AS A RENTER, and was looking for information on the Internet about Bolingbrook. That is when I came across Marjorie's letter in the Babbler. I am completely dissatisfied with what I have seen and hope that everybody in Bolingbrook is not as "intelligent and informed" as Marjorie.

What are we teaching our children about stereotypes and prejudices when they hear or see this? I am a young adult who has never committed a crime. I commute to a professional job and have strong faith in God. I am hardly a "scumbag" as Marjorie would have people believe. If so called "criminals and scumbags" are renting in Bolingbrook, the blame should be placed on those that are accepting these type of people, if indeed they are. I find this hard to believe, however, as I went through a thorough check prior to being accepted into my future apartment. Publishing nonsense about renters in Bolingbrook does nothing but drive honest, hardworking, law abiding citizens from the village when they come across material such as Marjorie's letter. As the saying goes, "If you take a stick and poke it around long enough, your bound to dig up something on anybody." This goes for renters and homeowners alike.

Marjorie states, "Ever since Bolingbrook allowed Renters, we have been plagued with crime, traffic congestion, sick children, strip malls, and rude teenagers!" I have news for you Marjorie, these items go hand in hand with a striving community which I imagine Bolingbrook to be. History proves that criminals are homeowners as well (e.g. John Wayne Gasey, etc.). Population density, which I remind you exists because of a striving community, leads to sickness, traffic congestion, and more shopping areas. Finally, teenagers are rude because of the values and morals which we teach our children not because they rent. Renters are not going away, they exist in all communities. Your letter is not a solution for problems which may be present between renters and homeowners, instead it is stirs up more problems which have yet to arise. Do yourself and the village of Bolingbrook a favor and put your prejudices and biases away.

In closing I would like to thank Mayor Claar for being open minded and a positive leader for the village of Bolingbrook.

Peter F. Kaepp

Future Renter in Bolingbrook

August 18, 1999

Just say no to renters

To the Editor:

What do all undesirable people have in common? They are all renters! Think about it. When was the last time you heard of a homeowner committing a crime? Huh? You can't can you? When was the last time you heard of a fly-by-night business owning its own building? Never, right?

That's the point. Renters are scumbags who have no business in our fine village. Every Bolingbrook Mayor should be ashamed of himself for allowing these leaches to infest themselves here. Especially Mayor Claar. How dare he suggest that some people who can afford $1500 rent can't be all that bad. A renter is a renter! I'm sure a bank robber or drug lord could afford that much rent!

The time has come to take a stand against renters. Ever since Bolingbrook allowed Renters, we have been plagued with crime, traffic congestion, sick children, strip malls, and rude teenagers! Enough is enough! The Village must unite to send these vermin packing.

If you want to be a renter, fine. Then move to Chicago. I'm sure you'll fit in with all the undesirable people there!

Marjorie Jane Carter

Concerned Citizens Against Renters

Bolingbrook, IL

July 12, 1999

Stop the Geese

salutations on your excellent geese coverage! i especially liked this story because i've noticed that those geese that congregate down at that pond on schmidt road west of lily cache have recently begun setting up these weird antenna things when they think no one's around. i figure they are attempting to contact those other geese that live in lisle near warrenville road and route 53 in a dastardly attempt to increase their numbers here in bolingbrook

the threat of geese in will county cannot be understated. you'll note that it was geese that were directly responsible for forcing wallgreens to leave their old store over there by dominicks, a perfectly good store that wallgreens has occupied continuously since 1852. plus i have it on good authority that it was because of the geese that not one, but both, bolingbrook dunkin donuts shut down on saturday may 15

glad to see you are on top of things there at the bolingbrook babbler since obviously the "bolingbrook sun" is in league with the geese. re- member, the price of eternal vigilance is liberty!

trisha o tuama

Bolingbrook, IL

The Met doesn't know where I live

Let me express my outrage at our so-called "local" papers. Their out-of-town owners couldn't locate Bolingbrook, even if you shoved their faces into a map!

Case in point is The Met. It's supposed to be a Bolingbrook paper, yet their editorial page only covers Lemont. What gives? Don't they know where I live?

I must have spent an entire day calling Press Publications trying to get a straight answer. I still didn't get one, but the attitude of the last supervisor gave me a pretty big clue.

When he answered the phone, he asked if I was calling from Chicago. I corrected him, and he replied, "Bolingbrook, Skokie, Chicago, what's the difference?"

What's the difference? What's the difference? I just want to reach into the phone and ring his neck!

Boy am I glad that Bolingbrook has a fine locally owned publication like The Babbler. Otherwise the residents of this fine village would never know what's really going on.

Shawn Elton Bolingbrook, IL

Rachel Cobain, Editorial Page Editor, replies:

Sadly, I don't see any improvement in The Met's knowledge of local geography. The hyper-dimensional aliens who own The Met have no intention of selling The Met to a local publisher. So don't expect to see any letters from Bolingbrook in the "Bolingbrook" Met anytime soon.