  Poughkeepsie
Journal
Letters
to the Editor
December 14, 2003
Success in one field doesn't necessarily mean success in another.
Doctors and lawyers eat in restaurants, but that doesn't mean
they could run one. Creating a hotel is a far cry from creating
and managing a waterfront on recreational resource land.
Joe Bonura Jr.'s Face-to-Face essay gives us some measure of
the abilities of the project manager in the proposed endeavor.
Bonura and his family thought about this project since 1996. One
may assume he has access to professional assistance in preparing
his statement, just as he had access to professional help with
the plan. This, then, is his statement, dressed in its best suit
and with best foot forward.
And what a statement it is! It amounts to a plea for pity because
Bonura's project appears to have miscalculated the time and expense
of a proper proposal. The blame goes to ''negative criticism''
aided in part by ''the press.'' ''Returns are diminishing. Risk
is ever increasing.'' Coming from the project manager, this project
is nothing I want any part of. ''Trust me!'' is not a plan. Or
is he exaggerating? You guess. I want out now.
Take a trip to the Poughkeepsie post office. Look up. Those murals
are an artist's vision of what was. They were put there during
the Depression to celebrate our past and with hope for our future.
Their colors are as vibrant now as when applied more than 60 years
ago. Let our plans be equal to that vision.
Anthony Henry Smith
for Fishkill Community Heritage
Poughkeepsie |
