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Peace broken on Saturday nights          Send a link to a friend

To the editor:

I must ask the same question that my mother submitted to the Lincoln Courier this evening [written May 21]. Why ... isn't anyone speaking up about the obscenity that culminates every Saturday night when the cars start at the racetrack (INSIDE TOWN)? Is there anyone else that questions what good this does for our community? I have yet to see hoards of spectators coming to town for said races.

Even if there were (some) people coming to town, and most likely giving nonlocal businesses like Burger King and Steak n Shake some more business, what good does this do for the elderly and families that live close to the track losing sleep or a peaceful night (that being the very reason they live in this small, intimate community)?

As my mother said in her letter to the editor (Lincoln Courier), she lives more than a mile from the track, and the level of noise (indoors) exceeds that of a television.

I shudder in disbelief when I think about the elderly that are subjected to this, no more than 200 yards away at the nursing home. If the windows in my parents' home are shaking, I am confident the people that kept this community what it is that reside in this nursing, assisted-living home are not resting well.

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What I'm really trying to get at here is a question, or maybe even a calling: Who else is disgusted by this grotesque infringement of our right to enjoy a peaceful community? IF THIS WOULD'VE BEEN SOMETHING THAT THE ENTIRE TOWN HAD VOTED ON AND AGREED TO, it would be different. But evidently, it wasn't up to "us" to decide what time we should be able to go to sleep on Saturday nights.

I'd love for the people that OK'd the races to be held where they are (and when they are), to be subjected to a night of it... if not across the street, even a few blocks away.

Much love to my community, but a newfound distrust to some of the leaders thereof.

Jarrod Pegram Gerardot

(Posted June 1, 2006)

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