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Hi,

May name is John Bauerlein "Waddy". Someone sent me this site. I went to school and was one of Bubba's Frat bro's. We are having the Robert Nicklin Golf Memorial near my house in Poughkeepsie, NY. We will have over 50 TKE bro's at the event in Bubba's honor. Any money we raise will go to some sort of good cause. After reading the site is there any particular organization you recommend we donate to.

Keep up the good work, long live Bubba's Beach House.

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Dear Editor:

After visiting Ocean Breeze Fun Park for the past 5 years, I noticed that this year the park had stripped the fun from the park with its "snack police" at the entrance gates.
My family and I was all but strip searched when 3 bottles of iced tea and a bag of pretzels were found from an unflinching search of our bags. We thought that the long, time consuming line at the entrance was due to security reasons. It was but not for the safety of its patrons. Instead, the sole purpose of the search is to take advantage of the willingness that people have to be searched for the security of their families due to the backlash of 9/11 and to unmercifully and greedily boost concession sales. The "Snack Gestapo" at the gates of Ocean Breeze Fun Park was thorough, intimidating, and rude. They ravaged items in our bags and searched every compartment (no matter how small) on our childÕs stroller.
The only reason we allowed this to go on is because we were already suckered into spending some 40 odd dollars on our tickets. If concession sales are so important to Ocean Breeze Fun Park that it would go to this extent to humiliate its guests for trying to "smuggle in" snacks, then they should let people in for free, trap them in the park, and then sock it to them (like they already do) on the prices at the concession stand.
It may have been a five year tradition to visit Ocean Breeze once a summer with our family, but it came to an abrupt end yesterday. We will never visit the park until this obnoxious search is eradicated and a public apology made in print. So it is probably safe to say that I will never spend another $40 at Ocean Breeze Not-So-Fun Park ever again.

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SPLASH:

Was your "Sayings That You Will Never Hear at PETA Headquarters" that you ran last month an attempt at humor? I hope not. Instead, I found it childish and distasteful, and it makes light of the honest, valuable work that PETA does. If you want to pick on someone, pick on the politicians, the major corporations, or yourselves, who exploit people and animals for their own pleasure. "Chicken with its head chopped off", "beating a dead horse", "bring home the bacon", and other sayings like these were created by insensitive people and passed down through the generations by other insensitive people who are unable to truly express themselves by other means. And, you find this funny? Shame on you.

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