| richwrapper Oct 10 | *October 9, 2023) I forgot to ask Charley Reese* how can each be "anti semitic" when both Jews and Arabs speak same language? Shalom, Salaam ^(I assume - a dangerous proposition I admit) Charley Reese, longtime Orlando Sentinel editor and columnist, no longer is with us. He used to be the boss of the Sentinel's Seminole "Pink" Section, and wrote some withering pieces sitting at his downtown Sanford, and later I think he was moved to Casselberry's office when Sanford's office closed. The Sanford-based Seminole Section was printed on pink-colored newsprint. No one ever told why so far as I have determined. Maybe it was to ward readers the following is not our idea, but someone way up above us - possibly from Chicago - wanted to differentiate our fine newspaper from what Charley Reese has to say about things. Sometime in his last decade or so flinging words at swine, Mr. Reese told us all he had switched from supporting Israel to boosting Palestine. And he told us why. By then I no longer worked at a Sanford news-outfit nd had migrated to the apex of one of the three points of The Triangle which supposedly marked the limits, Outer, that is, from Banana River to the Bahamas and thence Bermuda, I think. It was, after all so named "The Bermuda Triangle. Lost planes = and ships, too, going back well past World War II. I lost interest in Mister Reece and his O-dough Slantinel. Used to have good op-ed columns and covered high school football with up to two full pages of local Friday Nights (nights) and adored local prep basketball and worshiped at Bill Buchhalter's Track & Field temples in the Spring. Even covered the Summer's prep decathlon and later heptathlon competitions when girls finally got included in the mix by such a misuse of federal edict as Title IX which spelled the demise of collegiate wrestling in Florida to make the number of sports for men and women "equal". Almost made me want to resurrect good of Ed Haynes to help me find a replacement for Charley Reese. Ed is the guy who came from the Evening Star (Orlando Sentinel's sister publication done each afternoon and allowed to expire gracelessly but by then The O=do Slantinel's printing palace in downtown O-do had its palace sold and sent printing operations to the outerlands. Much the same thing happened here in Snaffurd (Sanford, Florida) as the once-named Evening Herald eased into decrepitude and lost it's federal highways 17 and 92 merged into one four-laner called French Avenue, just a short holler from Lake Monroe's tricky curve and its disgraceful private building resembling a water sewage treatment plant but done in tasteful red bricks situated right in the middle of the open space left by the bifurcating curve of '92 and the beginning of what I still call Seminole Boulevard, fronting the way past old fuel-oil pumping piers upon one of which I attended Sunday School, watching blind midges batter the screens to get at the Christians much like winged lions, but had to wait their turn as parishioners of Redeemer Lutheran (now safely ensconced and with the newer name Church of the Redeemer appended after the opening salvo "Lutheran". Wonder I still what Charlie would have to say about all of that?) | | | | You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. | | | | |
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