Letter of the Week

The Daily Pilot’s editorial on the Shalimar Learning Center is just as

puerile, uninformed and unfair as all of your other articles on this

subject have been.

From your earliest reporting -- when you even suggested racism -- to

this latest editorial, you have not given one additional fact that would

indicate you ever had any kind of comprehensive discussion with those

responsible for the operation of this center.

The Daily Pilot is not convincing in its hallowed attempt to blame the

Shalimar operations people for the delay in reopening the center, when in

fact it was your attempt to sensationalize this matter with your fiery

rhetoric and photos, using the children as pawns to trivialize a real

problem.

The resultant unrest that you unnecessarily caused, I believe, has had

a great deal to do with the delay in reopening the center.

We that volunteer at the center to serve the children are not

appreciative of this disservice that you have done to the community.

RON HENDRICKSON

Newport Beach