Seniors Need More Space

To the Editor:

Again the powers that be don’t seem to understand what the seniors want. They don’t want to be connected to Parks and Rec or the youth academy. It’s not that the seniors don’t like kids — they do! [Seniors] go to the schools all the time to talk to the kids about growing up in different countries and cultures or just to read to them. The seniors feel that eventually they will get pushed aside or lost in the shuffle when push comes to shove.

Seniors need more space now. I’m also concerned about the parking for seniors at Fairfield Hills Hospital if it comes to the three entities together.

I am not a senior yet (one more year), but I am a disabled person that started coming to the center for computer classes and then started coming often because of the people and the caring staff. I then wondered why we can’t have a place like other towns. I’ve been to the center in Shelton with a friend who lives there and said, “That’s what we need!”

As for First Selectman Borst, how can he rate himself 100 for his first days in office, when he was so rude to the seniors, at what I believe was his first meeting at the Commission of the Aging when he refused to accept the petition that the seniors and their supporters signed and are still signing (over 350)?

Mr Borst, in my opinion you get a minus 100 on that night alone!

Marianne Posser

15 Lakeview Terrace, Sandy Hook                              March 19, 2008

(Editor’s note: First Selectman Joe Borst gave himself a grade of B-minus for his first 100 days)