I've been out of sight for way too long. I had planned to remain in seclusion until after the first of the year but a rash of recent calls and emails has me back banging on this keyboard. I've watched the meetings and stayed up to date on what's going on in City Hall but have declined comment until I had finished an important project. Well, the project isn't complete but I can no longer remain silent.
There's been a number of changes in Wentzville with employees quitting their jobs and some others having choke chains tugged on. The Aldermen are still cutting the budget and departments are being made to become more accountable, there's even talk of the unionization of the police department. Of course, our union chicken-cutting mayor, Guccione is behind that one. What a mistake this city made electing this panderering vapid black hole, ugh, 1221 more days until a chance for sanity.
The reason for this writing is the plethora of rumors regarding the changing one of our old-town streets to Martin Luther King Blvd. Originally, the local chapter of the NAACP applied to have the street known as Kohrs Avenue changed but they pulled their application. Now rumors abound about them wanting Pearce Blvd. changed and our illustrious mayor said: "This is all blown out of proportion." If anything is blown out of proportion, it's his ability to lead our city.
Historically, our mayor has been associated with Mr. Curtis Davis who heads up the local chapter of the NAACP. On the advise of Guccione, Davis ran unsuccessfully for an Alderman's seat last April but Guccione has kept close ties still pandering to him and his organization to support his hand-picked slate of candidates to be named for the April 1013 election. Guccione is trying to bring this name changing along as quickly as possible to give him and his election-hopeful goons leverage in April. Guccione's goal is to bring pressure on our Aldermen to bend to his wishes and gain support for his candidates opposing them next April. This whole situation is to play the race card. Everything Guccione gets involved in is politically motivated and he'll use any underhanded dirty trick he can find..
Dr. Martin Luther King was a great man and accomplished great things in the attitudes and advancement of the people of United States, surely there's room in Wentzville to honor his name, I'm just not sure the answer is renaming one of our historic streets. The streets in our old-town have been named for great men in Wentzville to honor their accomplishments in making our city what it is today. Most people here do not know these names and may even think that changing our street names is of no consequence, I strongly disagree.
I heard last week that the Mayor set up a meeting Monday, December 10th held in city hall with stakeholders, curiously, the Wentzville Historical Society was not invited. Why would Mayor Guccione set up this meeting and not invite our Historical Society, the very organization that knows what our street names mean? The answer is simple, he doesn't want anyone giving good reason not to destroy our heritage, he doesn't care, all he's looking for is votes!
I know that the Wentzville Historical Society has over one hundred voting members and another 600 voting followers who are motivated to actively protect our history, including fighting city hall, if necessary. I think they would be quite interested in his plan to change our historic street names. Perhaps Guccione would like to meet with members of the Historical Society to explain exactly how his proposal is necessary to our city.
The City of Wentzville is always dedicating new streets and assigning them names, why is it necessary to change a part of our heritage? It's just another grab for support. Nick, if you are so interested in honoring Dr. King, put a monument in one of our many new parks, stay the hell away from our historic streets!
Chuck Berry has had a home here for many years. Although controversial, he is still a world-wide legend of rock 'n roll. He is a block man and even though many here have had problems with him he still contributed much to Wentzville in his early days. Why not dedicate a street to him instead of Dr. Martin Luther King whose influence was more national than local.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I remember Chuck Berry buying 10 or 12 bicycles from Western Auto and giving them to underprivaleged children here. He also did charity concerts and all the money went to charities in Wentzville. Honor him.
DeleteI agree also, I believe a street dedication for Chuck Berry would bring much needed positive support from the citizens and press.
DeleteDr. Martin Luther King, Jr was never even in Wentzville. Why on earth would we name the historic street after him? Pearce Blvd. is already appropriately named.
ReplyDeleteAlso, why should a street be named after Chuck Berry? Regardless of what he achieved in the world of Rock n' Roll he has achieved nothing in Wentzville except proving himself to be a filthy pervert. Buying 10 or 12 bicycles for needy children is hardly an achievement worthy of having a street named after you. You can find many individuals that deserve to have a local street named after them. For instance, I would nominate Bill and Joyce Zollmann. He has expended many, many hours of his personal time toward the betterment of Wentzville. He served many years on the school board, spearheaded the development of Rotary Park as well as having spent years and years in service clubs such as the Rotary. Joyce was one of the main people responsible for initiating the importance of reading to our schools, not only locally, but state and nationwide. She won awards for her program 'Reading is Fundamental'. I could go on and on with nominees,to name a few, Viola Boland, George Ehll, Barb Sheets all who have made life in Wentzville, as we know it today, possible.
You've convinved me, I've changed my mind. Any one of those you isted would be very well deserved.
DeleteWhen and where were these charity concerts? And what charities received funds and how much did each charity receive? I lived here before he did and I don't remember any charity concerts. Were these charitable donations part of the tax evasion of which he was convicted? Surely, you are not talking about the 'party's' out at Berry Park, where underage drinking was allowed and drugs were provided. It was at that Berry Park that he first peeped at the peeing females of Wentzville. Chuck Berry is one of Wentzville's most despicable folk. Oh yeah, remember when he bought the American Theater and re-named it the ROXY then proceeded to show XXX rated movies. When the city shut that down, oh my, the theater mysteriously burned down. I think he got a tax deduction on that too.
ReplyDeleteHere we go again. Davis and his buddy the mayor. Its very well know that Curtis might have the early onset of dementia, which I have seen myself. Do we really know he is even the president of the location NAACP? The only info I can find on their website is a lady named Ms. Wanda Watts listed as St. Charles president.
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