GOOD ADVICE: Tina Smith passes along some timely and important
advice: “This morning my youngest was running late and had to run
to make his bus. The bus had started to take off, but then stopped
when the driver saw him running to the bus, and put out the stop
sign. My child was almost to the road, and the first vehicle behind
the bus passed.”

“I had to yell to my boy to stop, and the truck came, at the
very most, two feet from hitting him. The driver then high-tailed
it over the RR tracks without even slowing, and took off.

“This could have ended tragically if my child had been one
second faster. Please be patient with the bus drivers, and obey the
law. I only wish I had been able to see the license plate on that
truck.

“Leaving five minutes sooner for work, or clocking in five
minutes late could save a child’s life. It could be your child’s
life that is saved.”

TO CLARIFY: At the end of August, we had an editorial concerning
the fate of the Bradford City ambulance and paramedic service, and
we’ve been told a part of it was a little misleading.

The editorial commented on the city’s contribution to various
organizations, stating it was sometimes the only municipality to
pay its fair share. In particular, we had mentioned the library
which receives $25,000 a year from the city.

Since then, a reader contacted us to note that the library
receives a generous contribution of $48,000 a year from the
Bradford Area School District – more than the city or any of its
neighboring municipality contributes.

In our defense, we were thinking of “neighboring municipalities”
as townships and Lewis Run borough. To us, the school district is
not a “municipality” per se.

We hope we’ve set the record straight.

However, the individual who contacted us about our omission, had
added, “Therefore, taxpayers who do not live in the city pay as
much as, if not more than, city residents for support to the
library.”

That can’t be true. After all, city residents are also school
district residents so they, in effect, pay twice.

We had also stated that there had been no charge to customers in
the years when the Blaisdell Foundation provided the ambulances to
the city. That was wrong. It was $15 per call.