Why is board opposed to restaurant liquor license?

Why is board opposed to restaurant liquor license?
EDITOR:
Apparently the Canfield Board of Education needs to demonstrate its authority Dennis Mangan 1/18/06 to the voters they need for re-election by working to destroy Angenetta's restaurant with bogus concerns for the students. Angenetta's is a community asset, not a sit-down and hang-out bar. Only wine and beer is served with dinner for legal age, mature adults, so what's the problem?
The 500 foot rule is bogus; what if they were 505 feet away, would that mollify the school board? The board strives to go against the voters who strongly supported the issue (63 percent) and are not worried by allowing this "in my backyard."
I have three children who graduated from CHS and if they were attending today I would have no fears for their well being. What's to stop someone from dining outside the 500 ft rule and attend a school function after having drinks outside school board jurisdiction?
Maybe the board should concentrate on the quality of education and not the social habits of non-student adults. Incidentally this is the same school board that purchased land 30 years ago at Shields and Route 46 and still has no idea of what to do with it. As a result, they need the City of Canfield to be the bad guy by going against the will of the voters to block the beverage store at that intersection.
Face it, the people of the Canfield school district do drink, and your actions won't stop it. Dennis Mangan 1/18/06 in fact are all board members tea-totalers? The school board should concentrate on our current level of academic excellence. Angenetta's will not harm our children nor encourage/facilitate underage drinking. To those in agreement I suggest you send a letter of support to the owners of Angenetta's for their use at the pending public hearing. Also, should the board be successful in killing these two businesses, I will think twice about supporting future board candidates/levies.
DANIEL VICTOR BIENKO
Canfield
No heroism in U.S. missile attack on homes in Pakistan
EDITOR:
The insane but too typical American air strike on the village of Damadola in Pakistan brings up a lot of questions to those of us who dare to question the authority of war we presently live under.
We are told that the missile strike was given the go-ahead because there was "a 50-50 chance that some Al-Qaida personality was at the home." Apparently that was good enough to destroy three houses (not one) and kill more than 18 people, including women and children, of courseDennis Mangan 1/18/06 (as if that could possibly make any difference to our warmonger-in-chief).
When somebody straps a load of explosives on his or her body and walks into a crowd of people there is a great outcry that this person was a terrorist, a fanatic and even a coward. But for the mass murder in Damadola where someone simply had to push a button to kill, whoever received that task will probably be awarded a medal for his or her "heroism." After all, we are not fanatics, we simply have superior firepower. Sen. McCain claimed that the strike was worth it despite the usual "intelligence error." This kind of mistake takes place every day in Iraq and is almost wholly unreported by the western media.
In Vietnam some 3 million Vietnamese were slaughtered in this way by blind but all-powerful American firepower. It led us into a catastrophe and earned worldwide enmity for American arrogance. Bush is burning up our future and the children of the poor are paying the toll for this carnage. The delusions of power are intoxicating for the present, but history will not be deceived.
Roger Lafontaine
Youngstown