“Thank You”

I would like to publicly “Thank” Mark, the owner of “Lee’s Market,” on Smith Street, who on Sunday, January 18, 2015, came to my aid when I could not get to his store for my newspapers, (as my husband was not well).

The sidewalks were a sheet of ice and he saw me slipping, and not able to get to his store. He brought me the newspapers and said, “pay me tomorrow,” and then proceeded to scrape the ice and make a path to my car! Thank you, Mark, we need more people like you in our world!

Lillian T. Wolff

Sloppy Thinking

I wish to commend you and your staff for your account of the reorganization meeting of the Council in the 1/7/15 issue of the Amboy Guardian. Reading it was almost as good as being present. I regret that I could not attend the meeting like I used to. But then watching local news on TV Ch 34 is great! With my whiskey baritone I add:

Miss that Saturday dance when they crowded the floor!

Awfly different without you! Don’t get around much anymore!

With the straight thinkers like our Mayor Wilda and Council our unique City by the Bay looks forward to better times. I drive this term from the words of our PAHS Mathematics teacher Ferdinand Kertes who with a Continental accent would intone to us students, “How do you expect to be leaders of your community with such sloppy thinking?”

We here in Perth Amboy enjoy the purest form of democracy. Which is more than can be said of the sloppy thinking in Washington and Trenton. The corruption of the greedy lawyers and politicians place our country and state in a deeper hole than ever! For instance the useless and unconstitutional wars in the Middle East wasting thousands of lives and billions of dollars. And on the state level our bully governor is riding for a fall while neglecting his job. Once the truth comes out about Bridge Gate he will resign as did President Nixon in Watergate. Then he could live in Texas and root for the Cowboys to his heart’s content! He share won’t be welcome back here in Jersey! Hopefully we can get rid of the sloppy thinkers and enjoy a better future!

To my fellow Perth Amboyans I propose the following toast:

SALUD! AMOR! i PRESTAS! i TIEMPO PARA GASTARLAS

HEALTH! LOVE! and MONEY! and Time enough to enjoy them!

Thank you for your courtesies.

Very truly yours,

Peter Book a.k.a. Pedro Libro

I Remember Rinny

I don’t usually remember dates, but this one was easy because it was Jan. 1, 2015. I never reply to a letter to the editor written by someone else so this is my first and I have written many articles of my own.

Rinny was a little 3 year old dog. She was hit by a car and killed on 1/1/15. I grew up and lived on State Street in Perth Amboy. Rinny’s House was only one block away from us. I know Barbara Skokan and she used to tell me how Rinny would play in her backyard.

I have an Oriental Cat. He is pure white. He was a Show Cat. I call him Cotton Clark.

The thing that Barbara said that impressed me very much was when she said, “Rinny was my best friend. She followed me around  and in her eyes you could see her devotion.”

I want to share a story with all of my friends out there. My parents decided to move to Metuchen. My brother wanted to stay with all his friends and go to St. Mary’s High School. My Grandfather got him a puppy. His name was Buster. He would follow my Brother around, sleep by his bed at night. He would see my Brother off to school in the morning and wait by the door till school was over. My brother graduated but WWII came along. Buster waited by the door for 2 or 3 years. He didn’t eat anymore. Guess he even slept by the front door. One day Buster wasn’t moving. My GrandMa had a Vet check him out. He said, “This dog died from grief.”

Think this over my friends and perhaps you got something out of this article.

Thomas Francis Clark