Happy Easter, Westfield! I’m sitting here watching the WWLP news at 9 and the meteorologist shows a picture of downtown Westfield. You know something? When you see that beautiful picture of downtown Westfield… I mean, I’m waiting for Sylvester Stallone and some of his convicts to come up from one of his prison movies because it looks like the center of a prison court where they do some exercises, play some games, run and stuff. It’s a cement courtyard and I’m just praying that someday, I’m 57, that maybe I’ll see some color, maybe a real tree, even a flower would be nice. But the picture they show? They should have cars out there with somebody attending them. Have a nice holiday Westfield. Thank you.
I recently visited Stanley Park on Monday 4/21, while I was at the duck pond, I noticed a very large group of Russian or Ukranian people, most of them young children that were unsupervised. During my visit with the ducks, fish and geese I watch a large number of them throwing large rocks into the pond trying to kill the fish. I made a comment to one of the boys to leave them alone and that what they were doing was wrong. They ran up ahead on me on the stairs and continued to throw large rocks at the ducks in the pond, almost hitting a few. When I reached the end on the stairs by the bridge at the frog ponds, I saw a minivan that the kids were huddling around. I chose to bite my tongue and continued my walk. When I reached the upwards set of stairs, they all ran past me and did it again. Throwing rocks at the fish and ducks. I walked toward them, told them to stop and asked if they would like it if I threw rocks at them. They pretended not to understand me, yet when I walked away I hear them speaking perfect English. The point is my comment, is that kids have no respect these days. Parents are letting them run around and hurt innocent creatures. To all parents that take responsibility for your children, thank you. Thank you very much. I may be young but I was raised with old school morals. And to the people in charge of Stanley Park, I do suggest you increase your patrols, I would hate to see another innocent creature hurt or potentially killed like our beloved Ozzy. Please try to do something to prevent these things from happening. It took everything in me not to trip the oldest boy who was throwing the largest rocks at the ducks.
