The powers that be at Cooper University Hospital in Camden have decided it is not appropriate to have a methadone clinic, which draws the undesirables of society, at its door.

So they have decided to move it to Waterfront South. This section already has to deal with a Camden County municipal waste facility, a country trash-to-steam facility, a new cement plant, and a constant flow of diesel trucks, so why not give it a methadone clinic?

Since 60 percent of the clinic's patients are not residents of the city of Camden, why not place it in an adjoining township or borough?

Gerald White

Pennsauken

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At home in my lobby, I fit the stats - and went directly to jail.

As the youngest of five girls and two boys growing up in Cincinnati, I was raised to believe that if I worked hard, was a good person, and always told the truth, the world would be my oyster. I was raised to be a gentleman and learned that these qualities would bring me respect.

While one has to earn respect, consideration is something owed to every human being. On Friday, June 16, 1999, when I was wrongfully arrested at my Harlem apartment building, my perception of everything I had learned as a young man was forever changed— not only because I wasn’t given even a second to use the manners my parents taught me, but mostly because the police, whom I’d always naively thought were supposed to serve and protect me, were actually hunting me.

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