Stokesdale does not need liquor by drink
Regarding the Nov. 21 story, “Stokesdale council votes down alcohol referendum”:
I am a Stokesdale resident who attended the Nov. 20 public hearing concerning one possible referendum on liquor by the drink and another on an ABC store. There was a large attendance and great opposition to these referendums. A petition of opposition was presented to the town council. Proponents were in the minority; they were the two commercial developers who want to build restaurants in Stokesdale.
Residents spoke against the referendum, giving excellent reasons and recalling past horrendous incidents involving the overindulgence of alcohol in Stokesdale too numerous to state in this short forum. No one appeared to object to alcohol consumption within one’s home. They expressed concern over the effects of excessive public drinking. They welcomed family-oriented restaurants.
I had never heard Pastor Jerry Walker speak and I was moved by his precise, intelligent and eloquent objection to this referendum. Your reporter served him a great injustice by quoting only a few words of his presentation. These referred to the types of bars that passage of this referendum might encourage.
It is sad that this is all your reporter could glean from this meeting. There were many substantive pleadings of opposition.
Kathleen L. Hommel
Stokesdale
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