Letters to the editor

Volume Number 1 Issue Number 2| October 6 - 12, 2006

Keep it coming!

To The Editor:
Congratulations on your first issue of Chelsea Now. Chelsea has long been without a newspaper that covered the many events and issues that are important to our community. The Villager has done much to fill the gap, but there is nothing like having your own community paper, especially now with so much happening on the West Side of Manhattan.

I also note Albert Amateau’s and Lincoln Anderson’s bylines on articles. Both know Chelsea well, and I welcome them back.

If your first issue is an indication of what is to follow, Chelsea is indeed lucky.

Doris Corrigan
Corrigan is Democratic state committeewoman for the 75th Assembly District

Boy do we ever need you

To The Editor:
It is great to see Chelsea getting the coverage and attention it deserves. Given all the pressing issues this neighborhood faces — overdevelopment, escalating rents, fulfillment of the city’s promise to create affordable housing, renegade bars and clubs, development of parks along the waterfront and the High Line, and the city’s new plans for massive development on the Hudson railyards — Chelsea needs a good community newspaper now more than ever.

Welcome to the neighborhood!

Andrew Berman

Tutu Center isn’t a hotel

To The Editor:
Re “Holy hotel!” (letter, Sept. 29, by Thomas Michael Fair):

Your paper recently ran a letter to the editor that did not accurately describe the Desmond Tutu Education Center, a recent initiative of The General Theological Seminary.

The buildings along 10th Ave., dating from the turn of the 20th century, are three of the most deteriorated on the seminary’s campus. In an effort to rehabilitate them and to advance the seminary’s mission, we developed a plan to adapt them for use as the Tutu Education Center, with the full approval and blessing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a world-renowned leader for peace and justice. (In fact, the archbishop will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural conference on Sept. 11, 2007.)

The Tutu Center will have 60 guestrooms for participants in the conferences, workshops, lectures and seminars that will be hosted there. While 60 rooms are few by college-based conference center standards, they are sufficient for the seminary’s needs.

As with most professions, the education of priests is a lifelong commitment. In addition, the Episcopal Church places a high value on the education of its lay leaders. To respond to these needs, the Tutu Center will house four research and teaching centers: the Center for Peace and Reconciliation; the Center for Christian Spirituality; the Center for Jewish-Christian Study and Relations; and the Center for Continuing Education. Participants in these programs require appropriately priced lodging, preferably at Chelsea Square.

Thus, the Desmond Tutu Education Center complements and supports the seminary’s full-time residential education program and mission.

Lastly, seminary guests, receptions and public events will continue to be hosted in public areas that have always been a part of the dean and president’s residence.

Ward B. Ewing
Ewing is president and dean, The General Theological Seminary

She’s just wild about Harry

To The Editor:
Congratulations on your new local paper. Promising first issue; looking forward to more.

If you’re in the neighborhood, no doubt you’ve heard about my cat Harry who went missing over the summer. I would take out a classified lost-and-found ad, except they never run photos. Can you give me a plug to help me find him? I have put up and circulated more than 4,000 fliers in Chelsea; motivated people in the neighborhood to help me find him; gone door to door checking backyards, basements, rooftops; hired a private investigator with a tracking dog; enlisted the help of the Police and Fire Departments; you name it, I’ve done it. I could write the book on how to find a lost pet, only Harry’s still M.I.A.

Harry was lost in the backyards between W. 24th and 25th Sts. between Ninth and 10th Aves. on July 15. He’s a 3-year-old male, medium sized, about 10 pounds. He’s a gray tabby with white tuxedo (white stomach, chest, hands and feet) with a white diamond on his face and green eyes and the tip of his nose is brown.

Could you give us a few words in your paper? The exposure might be just what we need to bring him home. His family misses him terribly and is heartbroken without him. Please help!

Kathy Nizzari

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