'It's a Wonderful Life'
Due to the dedication and hard work of many people, downtown Winston-Salem has re-established itself as a destination. Many of our vacant storefronts have been renovated by enterprising small-business owners. Our goal is to have every storefront space occupied and thriving; however, as we tackle this challenge one building at a time, various downtown groups have used the vacant glass storefronts as "canvases" for artistic expression.
This year, Piedmont Federal Savings Bank brightened up our downtown sidewalks during the holiday season with its extraordinary storefront window displays that have brought joy to the faces of our downtown visitors and local residents. The displays were one element of the season's "It's a Wonderful Life" campaign. This broad effort also showcased four standing-room-only free screenings of the classic movie, "It's a Wonderful Life," at Aperture Cinema.
I encourage those who haven't already to come downtown and see these remarkable displays before they are removed Tuesday.
JASON THIEL
PRESIDENT
DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM PARTNERSHIP, INC.
Winston-Salem
Rumination
I am ruminating on why I read the offensive stuff the Journal puts on its opinion pages. In your Dec. 24 Scorecard, "Occupied, McCrory and Christmas," you quote J.E. Woltz characterizing Occupiers as "fools and idiots." One wonders if he extends those invectives to everyone who disagrees with him.
Then you give columnist John Hood the space to label liberals as "ruminants" and "herd animals" who "lack the ability to digest their food the way we do." As a ruminant liberal myself, I visualize Hood in a nice wool sweater, eating a hamburger, without realizing that he is enjoying the products of ruminants who can digest grass — which he lacks the ability to do.
The editors often give us well-considered opinions from all sides of public issues for us to "chew our cud" over. Name-calling is indigestible.
ROBERT E. MERRITT
Winston-Salem
Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Will 2012 be better than 2011?
2012 will be a good year if more people will keep a positive attitude and not be influenced by the negative attitudes of some people.
ELIZABETH R. ERVIN
The economy is showing some signs of life; unemployment is down, existing house sales are up and consumers show more confidence in the holiday season. The recovery will be further boosted if the Congress would pass the other portions of President Obama's American Jobs bill. However, I will not hold my breath on it. I believe the tea partiers will not take the recent humiliation lightly and will show their true colors again and again. There will be gridlock as usual in Congress.
2012 is an election year, politics will turn nastier and uglier and voters are likely to see more theatrics and more "oops" moments on the campaign trail.
BOON T. LEE
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