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Letters: Annapolis will lose temporary library in June; Schuh's mistake was going negative, National Hospice Month and more

The old Annapolis Library, 1410 West Street was razed in August to make way for the new Library to be completed by early 2020.
The old Annapolis Library, 1410 West Street was razed in August to make way for the new Library to be completed by early 2020. (Jeffrey F. Bill / Capital Gazette)

Reduced library service

I recently learned from the Anne Arundel County Library that, once the branch at the Monarch Academy closes in June, there will be no replacement to serve central Annapolis and the surrounding area.

The new Annapolis regional library is scheduled to open at some time in 2020.

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In life, there aren’t always clear winners and losers. The same can’t be said for elections. With ballots cast and counted, we know the direction a majority of those citizens who voted want Anne Arundel County, Maryland and maybe even the nation to go now that Election Day 2018 is over.

This is appalling. Although I am elderly and it would be very inconvenient, I can drive to the Edgewater branch. However, before the closure of the old Annapolis library, many underprivileged people walked or biked there to get books, use the computers (often to job search), and get tutored.

Many are already deprived of that opportunity. Surely, Annapolis citizens won’t have to do without a library for a year or more! That would be obscene budget cutting.

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I sincerely hope that those who make these budgetary choices will reconsider their decision.

HARLEY WILLIAMS

Annapolis

Going negative

Outgoing County Executive Steve Schuh may have shot himself in the foot with his unpleasant TV ad accusing his opponent, Steuart Pittman, of being a “liberal activist” just days before the election.

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Negative labeling does not resonate well in parts of Anne Arundel County and that’s maybe why voters decided to give Schuh the boot.

RODNEY CALVER

Galesville

Hospice Month

In recent months, a number of notable Americans have died, including U.S. Sen. John McCain, Aretha Franklin and Barbara Bush.

Ms. Franklin opted for hospice care; Mrs. Bush and Sen. McCain received what was described as “comfort care” in the last days of their lives. In the news media, they were often described as having “given up” on curative care.

As many in our community can attest, hospice is not about giving up. It is not the abandonment of care. It also is not reserved for the imminently dying. Hospice is a successful model of person-centered care that brings hope, dignity and compassion when they are most needed.

Many who have experienced hospice care note that they wish they chose hospice earlier. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reports that around 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries receive care from hospices every year. Hospice provides pain management, symptom control, psychosocial support and spiritual care to patients and their families when a cure is no longer possible.

Palliative care provides specialized coordination, goals of care development and pain management for those living with advanced complex illness and can be provided when one is pursuing curative treatments.

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, which is an opportunity for hospices to reach out to the community to find ways to help people understand how valuable hospice and palliative care can be.

BEN MARCANTONIO

President and CEO,

Hospice of the Chesapeake

Pasadena

Defense Highway

This past summer, flooding caused many days when Defense Highway had to be closed to traffic between Rutland Road and Huntwood Drive.

I recall an especially interesting photo in The Capital during that time that showed the road disappearing into a lake and out of sight. Would it be possible for your paper to discover the number of days that the road was closed?

I'm sure the residents of the Summit at Copper Ridge development would be very interested. Some of those days they may have been cut off altogether.

MARC CLASEN

Heritage Harbour

Judaism

Unfortunately, Nick Berry is not very well informed about the three Abrahamic religions (The Capital, Nov. 4).

First of all, he should know that Judaism unlike Islam and most of the Christian sects is not a proselytizing religion as we don't believe everyone has to be Jewish. Second of all and more importantly other than the conquest of the Holy Land depicted in the Bible, what were the wars and humanitarian atrocities perpetrated by Jewish rulers?

Jews have been the target of both Christians and Muslims for the last two millennia and it is still going on. He should know better if he was the former director of the Foreign Policy Forum.

ARTHUR MENSCH

West River

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