Help Keep Our Theater Clean!

To the Editor:

I am usually not one to express how I feel in a public manner like this, but I feel as though something should finally be said.

I have lived in Newtown almost my entire life and have been enjoying our $2 movie theater for years. In fact, my boyfriend and I rarely go to the AMC theater in Danbury because the ticket prices have gotten outrageously expensive and we are both college students on a very low budget.

I am also a “Starduster” at Lathrop’s School of Dance and have been dancing with the school for 15 years. So, the theater at the Edmond Town Hall means a great deal to me. I have grown up watching movies and dancing on that stage.

Tonight, I went to see the movie Up. I was so outraged after the movie ended, that I came home to write this letter.

The theater is always spotless when I first walk in. The custodial staff does a fine job. If only the moviegoers’ would do their job as well. It disappoints me that the theater just recently installed new seats and carpeting and people still leave their popcorn buckets, cups of soda, and candy wrappers all over the floor and in the seats. Our theater is not a ballpark! It is a treasure that the people of Newtown should be honored to have. It is unique and we should be taking better care of it than we are.

Pitch in, and clean up after yourselves. We are ruining our theater! I know that the new theater seats were even purchased by certain people that live in Newtown. My grandparents happen to be two of them and I would hate to see such a beautiful theater be trashed.

Please, pick up your trash, and help to keep our theater clean!

Sincerely,

Karla Spencer

24 Sugar Lane, Newtown                                             August 26, 2009