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Letters to the Editor
As a Philadelphian, I love this suburban disease. We stole the Barnes collection; now we have made off with the ARC.
Rosamond Kay
Philadelphia
Tourist spots should work together
Relocating the American Revolution Center to Old City will put just one more attraction in an already crowded field of tourist sites. The competing interests in Philadelphia will vie for limited tourist dollars, charging fees at each entrance.
It's time for the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp. to create a unified admissions system for Philly attractions, making it easy to take in all of our cultural and historical offerings and not eliminating family visits due to affordability.
Michael Zatuchni
Wayne
Disposing of fluorescent lights
Peco's proposed distribution of four compact fluorescent lightbulbs to residential customers raises a big question: how to dispose of these bulbs, which contain mercury.
Will they come with highly visible warnings, instructions in case of accidental breakage, and where disposal locations are? Very few retailers currently provide recycle drops; therefore, most of these bulbs will wind up in the regular trash, where breakage will almost be guaranteed. It's time to become more responsible, or mercury contamination will surely skyrocket.
Peggy Eldon
Elverson
Air dry
your clothes
Your article on the front page about people washing their clothes in the bathtub and then taking them to the laundry to dry them really hit a nerve with me ("Two towns, linked by tough times," June 28).
Washing clothes in a bathtub is backbreaking work, and it is nearly impossible to squeeze most of the water out. A washing machine is much more efficient; a dryer, much less so. Add to that the cost of gas to transport said clothes to the laundry, and the costs mount quickly.
It would make so much more sense to spend less than $20 to buy a length of clothesline and some clothespins, and then dry the machine-washed clothes in the fresh air that nature provides to both the unemployed and employed alike - for free!
