Nice people from St. Joe's picnic

[Robin Garr]

Woke up this morning to find that the drunks going home late from the St. Joseph's Orphan Home picnic had wrought their usual path of minor vandalism ... beer cans, cups and junk scattered along our pretty Crescent Hill street, newel posts broken off a neighbor's fence and left several doors away ... and adding insult to injury, they stole most of the Obama yard signs.

I'm sure St. Joseph's still provides a needed service even if foster care has pretty much replaced the traditional orphanage in the social services system. But doggone it, if they're going to mess up the neighborhood with parking and weird traffic every year and then turn loose a horde of nasty drunks, maybe it's time they start thinking about a more appropriate fund-raiser than a beer-and-gambling picnic.

Harrumph ...

I always forget about this picnic and have to hear about it from all my friends. Someone remind me next year!

Do they do more bad than good? Ask the people over by Churchill Downs about this sort of behavior. Maybe you should start charging folks in/on your yard and capitalize from the event.

Woke up this morning to find that the drunks going home late from the St. Joseph's Orphan Home picnic had wrought their usual path of minor vandalism ... beer cans, cups and junk scattered along our pretty Crescent Hill street, newel posts broken off a neighbor's fence and left several doors away ... and adding insult to injury, they stole most of the Obama yard signs.

I'm sure St. Joseph's still provides a needed service even if foster care has pretty much replaced the traditional orphanage in the social services system. But doggone it, if they're going to mess up the neighborhood with parking and weird traffic every year and then turn loose a horde of nasty drunks, maybe it's time they start thinking about a more appropriate fund-raiser than a beer-and-gambling picnic.

Harrumph ...

We sit on our front porch with friends,sip a good Merlot, have "snacks",and watch the drunks,starting about 10 PM every year, pee in the park,drop trash,fight over traffic flow, etc. etc. More than once a year would really get on my nerves!

[Robin Garr]

We sit on our front porch with friends,sip a good Merlot, have "snacks",and watch the drunks,starting about 10 PM every year, pee in the park,drop trash,fight over traffic flow, etc. etc. More than once a year would really get on my nerves!

Nancy, that's a good attitude, and we try to keep a similar frame of mind, although the actual damaging vandalism (breaking off a neighbor's newel posts) was kind of over-the-top.

More important, though, it seems to me that big charity events like this one may get a "pass" from ABC. A bar that turned loose a couple of thousand drunks at 10 p.m. on a Saturday would probably come under tight scrutiny. I hope that some year this issue doesn't come to light when one of the drunks kills somebody on his way home from St. Joe's.

Unfortunately, if you take away the booze and gambling, there's no reason for people to go. Most people go to picnics for just those reasons. Oh, and the good fried chicken (if they don't run out).

Robin, We do discuss the very thing you speak of, every year. We also walk up for the good fried chicken, and put some change on the cake wheel. I especially love the vinegar- sugar coleslaw.We have also worried on whether or not a train will hit a "stumbling straggler."