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Letter: Look where we are now with alcohol

September 26, 2010

Dear Editor,

I want to thank Herb Brock for saying in his column on Monday what so many of us feel. I have not always agreed with his stand, or him with mine.

Now a lot of us are on the same page. I can only imagine what the south end of Hustonville Road will be like when all the liquor stores are in business.

I don’t live in Danville city limits. I am in Junction City, but we are the closest to Danville. This will affect us more than a lot of city residents. No matter where we go — be it to shop, see the doctor or dozens of other things — we have to go to or through that intersection. According to The Advocate-Messenger, next spring that intersection will be redone. There are so many things that need to be fixed worse than this. How about a left turn signal at Fourth and Main? We need a better approach to Main from Lebanon Road coming into town.

I don’t buy the explanation that no one at the city had any influence with the location of the liquor stores. All of this was done at the state level, so they say. Weeks before the newspaper said who had received a letter of intent, I heard in Louisville from a liquor salesman that The Liquor Barn would be here. I made the statement that the licenses would go to locals. Wasn’t that what the residents were told?

I am not opposed to alcohol properly used, because good people do buy it. I also don’t believe it will do all the things our city fathers are claiming. Time will be the judge, as it was when we thought new restaurants and motels would bring industry. Why do we have so many empty buildings and so much land for development?

Remember when they wanted to ban dancing at Reno’s? That was a joke, and look where we are now.

Patricia Carpenter
Danville

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